1991 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1991 Books & Bestsellers

1991 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” by Alexandra Ripley
2. The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
3. Needful Things by Stephen King
4. No Greater Love by Danielle Steel
5. Heartbeat by Danielle Steel
6. The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon
7. The Firm by John Grisham
8. Night over Water by Ken Follet
9. Remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford
10. Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark

1991 Non-Fiction Books

1. Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
2. Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography by Kitty Kelley
3. Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door by Robert Fulghum
4. Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver North with William Novak
5. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry
6. When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck
7. More Wealth Without Risk by Charles J. Givens
8. Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
9. Childhood by Bill Cosby
10. Financial Self-Defense by Charles J. Givens

New York Times Bestsellers

Iron John by Robert Bly
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson
You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips
Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
Parliament of Whores by P. J. O’Rourke
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck
Uh-Oh by Robert Fulghum
Me: Stories of My Life by Katherine Hepburn
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Under Fire by Oliver North and William Novak

1991 Notable Literature

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
The Prize by Daniel Yergin
The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman
1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1991, according to GoodReads
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