Bestselling Books

1958 Books & Bestsellers 1958 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 2. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver 3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 4. Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 5. From the Terrace by John O’Hara 6. Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson 7. Ice Palace by Edna Ferber 8. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton 9. The Enemy Camp by […]

1957 Books & Bestsellers 1957 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens 2. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 3. Compulsion by Meyer Levin 4. Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman 5. Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keyes 6. Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson 7. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier 8. On the Beach by Nevil Shute 9. Below the Salt by

1956 Books & Bestsellers 1956 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Don’t Go Near the Water by William Brinkley 2. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor 3. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 4. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 5. Eloise by Kay Thompson 6. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 7. A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan 8. The Tribe That Lost Its Head by Nicholas Monsarrat 9. The Mandarins by Simone de

1955 Books & Bestsellers 1955 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk 2. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 3. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 4. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 5. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson 6. Something of Value by Robert Ruark 7. Not As a Stranger by Morton Thompson 8. No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman 9. The

1954 Books & Bestsellers 1954 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson 2. Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier 3. Love Is Eternal by Irving Stone 4. The Royal Box by Frances Parkinson Keyes 5. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari 6. No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman 7. Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck 8. The View from Pompey’s Head by Hamilton Basso

1953 Books & Bestsellers 1953 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas 2. The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain 3. Désirée by Annemarie Selinko 4. Battle Cry by Leon M. Uris 5. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 6. The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann 7. Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin 8. Time and Time Again by James

1952 Books & Bestsellers 1952 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain 2. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 5. Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes 6. Giant by Edna Ferber 7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 8. The Gown of Glory by Agnes

1951 Books & Bestsellers 1951 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 2. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3. Moses by Sholem Asch 4. The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson 5. A Woman Called Fancy by Frank Yerby 6. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat 7. Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand 8. Return to Paradise by James A. Michener 9. The Foundling by

1950 Books & Bestsellers 1950 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson 2. Joy Street by Frances Parkinson Keyes 3. Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway 4. The Wall by John Hersey 5. Star Money by Kathleen Winsor 6. The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier 7. Floodtide by Frank Yerby 8. Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow 9. The Adventurer by Mika Waltari

1949 Books & Bestsellers 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