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1949 Books & Bestsellers |
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1949 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari 2. The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas 3. Mary by Sholem Asch 4. A Rage to Live by John O’Hara 5. Point of No Return by John P. Marquand 6. Dinner at Antoine’s by Frances Parkinson Keyes 7. High Towers by Thomas B. Costain 8. Cutlass Empire by Van Wyck Mason 9. Pride’s Castle by Frank Yerby 10. Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter |
1949 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. White Collar Zoo by Clare Barnes Jr 2. How to Win at Canasta by Oswald Jacoby 3. The Seven-Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton 4. Home Sweet Zoo by Clare Barnes, Jr 5. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 6. The Greatest Story Ever Told by Fulton Oursler 7. Canasta, the Argentine Rummy Game by Ottilie H. Reilly 8. Canasta by Josephine Artayeta de Viel and Ralph Michael 9. Peace of Soul by Fulton J. Sheen 10. A Guide to Confident Living by Norman Vincent Peale |
1949 Notable Literature |
| Social Theory and Social Structure by Robert K. Merton The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles The Vital Center by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard The Mediterranean and Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel |
1949 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, Jr, and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Hound-Dog Man by Fred Gipson Elephant and the Castle by R.C. Hutchinson Double Muscadine by Francis Gaither Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Behind the Curtain by John Gunther Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Lead Kindly Light by Vincent Sheean The Mature Mind by H.A. Overstreet The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet The Egyptian by Mika Waltari The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt Modern Arms and Free Men by Vannevar Bush |
| 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1949, according to GoodReads |