The Books of the Century: 1900-1999 1900





Fiction Bestsellers 1. Mary Johnston, To Have and To Hold 2. Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage 3. Robert Grant, Unleavened Bread 4. James Lane Allen, The Reign of Law 5. Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden 6. Paul Leicester Ford, Janice Meredith 7. Charles Frederic Goss, The Redemption of David Corson 8. Winston Churchill, Richard Carvel 9. Charles Majo, When Knighthood Was in Flower 10. Maurice Thompson, Alice of Old Vincennes Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Josiah Royce, The World and the Individual Clarence Stedman, An American Anthology Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim John Dewey, The School and Society



1901



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, The Crisis 2. Maurice Thompson, Alice of Old Vincennes 3. Bertha Runkle, The Helmet of Navarre 4. Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way 5. Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden 6. Elinor Glyn, The Visits of Elizabeth 7. Harold MacGrath, The Puppet Crown 8. Maurice Hewlett, Richard Yea-and-Nay 9. George Barr McCutcheon, Graustark 10. Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Frank Norris, The Octopus E. A. Ross, Social Control Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman George A. Gordon, New Epoch for Faith Rudyard Kipling, Kim



1902



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Owen Wister, The Virginian 2. Alice Caldwell Hegan, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 3. Charles Major, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall 4. Emerson Hough, The Mississippi Bubble 5. Mary Johnston, Audrey 6. Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way 7. A. Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles 8. Booth Tarkington, The Two Vanrevels 9. Henry van Dyke, The Blue Flower 10. Lucas Malet, Sir Richard Calmady Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics William James, Varieties of Religious Experience Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness C. H. Cooley, Human Nature and Social Order Owen Wister, The Virginian André Gide, The Immoralist Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done? Henry James, The Wings of the Dove Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow



1903



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Mary Augusta Ward, Lady Rose's Daughter 2. Thomas Nelson Page, Gordon Keith 3. Frank Norris, The Pit 4. Alice Hegan Rice, Lovey Mary 5. Owen Wister, The Virginian 6. Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 7. James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture 8. George Horace Lorimer, Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son 9. Thomas Dixon Jr., The One Woman 10. John Fox Jr., The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory Jack London, Call of the Wild Helen Thompson Wooley, Mental Traits of Sex Bertrand Russell, Principles of Mathematics G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh Henry James, The Ambassadors

Helen Keller, The Story of My Life





1904

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, The Crossing 2. Ellen Glasgow, The Deliverance 3. Anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston), The Masquerader 4. Miriam Michelson, In the Bishop's Carriage 5. Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer 6. George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly of Graustark 7. John Fox Jr., The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come 8. Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 9. Henry Harland, My Friend Prospero 10. Stewart Edward White, The Silent Places Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Henry James, The Golden Bowl Henry Adams, Mt.-St. Michel and Chartres Thorstein Veblen, Theory of Business Enterprise Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Joseph Conrad, Nostromo



1905

Fiction Bestsellers 1. Mary Augusta Ward, The Marriage of William Ashe 2. Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy 3. Robert Hichens, The Garden of Allah 4. Thomas Dixon Jr., The Clansman 5. George Barr McCutcheon, Nedra 6. Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Gambler 7. Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Masquerader 8. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 9. C. N. and A. M. Williamson, The Princess Passes 10. Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rose o' the River Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities Thomas Dixon, Jr., The Clansman Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth Mary Chesnut, Diary from Dixie





1906

Fiction Bestsellers 1. Winston Churchill, Coniston 2. Owen Wister, Lady Baltimore 3. Robert W. Chambers, The Fighting Chance 4. Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles 5. George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable 6. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle 7. Margaret Deland, The Awakening of Helena Ritchie 8. Rex Beach, The Spoilers 9. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 10. Ellen Glasgow, The Wheel of Life

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle William Graham Sumner, Folkways George Santayana, The Life of Reason Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent



1907



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Frances Little, The Lady of the Decoration 2. Gilbert Parker, The Weavers 3. Meredith Nicholson, The Port of Missing Men 4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle 5. Louis J. Vance, The Brass Bowl 6. Hallie Erminie Rives, Satan Sanderson 7. George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow 8. Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set 9. Ralph Connor, The Doctor 10. Harold MacGrath, Half a Rogue Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

William James, Pragmatism Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis Henry James, The American Scene Simon Patten, New Basis for Civilization The Education of Henry Adams (privately published) Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution



1908



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Winston Churchill, Mr. Crewe's Career 2. Rex Beach, The Barrier 3. John Fox Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 4. Harold MacGrath, The Lure of the Mask 5. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle 6. F. Hopkinson Smith, Peter 7. Mary Johnston, Lewis Rand 8. Louis J. Vance, The Black Bag 9. George Barr McCutcheon, The Man from Brodney's 10. Gilbert Parker, The Weavers Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Arthur Bentley, Process of Government Vladimir Lenin, Materialism and Empirico-Criticism Graham Wallas, Human Nature and Politics E. M. Forster, A Room with a View Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale Mohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot





1909



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Basil King, The Inner Shrine 2. Elinor Macartney Lane, Katrine 3. Rex Beach, The Silver Horde 4. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Man in Lower Ten 5. John Fox Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 6. George Barr McCutcheon, Truxton King 7. Emerson Hough, 54-40 or Fight 8. Harold MacGrath, The Goose Girl 9. F. Hopkinson Smith, Peter 10. William J. Locke, Septimus Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life William James, A Pluralistic Universe W. C. Brownell, American Prose Masters







1910





Fiction Bestsellers 1. Florence Barclay, The Rosary 2. Winston Churchill, A Modern Chronicle 3. Basil King, The Wild Olive 4. Katherine Cecil Thurston, Max 5. Hallie Erminie Rives, The Kingdom of Slender Swords 6. William J. Locke, Simon the Jester 7. C. N. and A. M. Williamson, Lord Loveland Discovers America 8. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat 9. Eleanor Abbott, Molly Make-Believe 10. Mary Roberts Rinehart, When a Man Marries Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House Sigmund Freud, Origins and Development of Psychoanalysis E. M. Forster, Howards End John Dewey, How We Think



1911



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Jeffrey Farnol, The Broad Highway, 2. Vaughan Kester, The Prodigal Judge 3. Harold Bell Wright, The Winning of Barbara Worth 4. Henry Sydnor Harrison, Queed 5. Gene Stratton Porter, The Harvester 6. Margaret Deland, The Iron Woman 7. Mary Johnston, The Long Roll 8. Eleanor Abbott, Molly Make-Believe 9. Florence Barclay, The Rosary 10. Robert W. Chambers, The Common Law Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

F. W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson





1912



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Gene Stratton Porter, The Harvester 2. Basil King, The Street Called Straight 3. Harold Bell Wright, Their Yesterdays 4. Maria Thompson Daviess, The Melting of Molly 5. Meredith Nicholson, A Hoosier Chronicle 6. Harold Bell Wright, The Winning of Barbara Worth 7. Vaughan Kester, The Just and the Unjust 8. Rex Beach, The Net 9. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Tante 10. J. Breckenridge Ellis, Fran Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James Harvey Robinson, The New History Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method

Mary Antin, The Promised Land Ezra Pound, Ripostes

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life



Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Mary Antin, The Promised Land 2. Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method 3. James Bryce, South America 4. Jane Addams, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil 5. Eugene Brieux, Three Plays 6. Arnold Bennett, Your United States 7. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution 8. Arnold Bennett, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day 9. Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labor 10. Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain





1913

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Winston Churchill, The Inside of the Cup 2. Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes 3. Gene Stratton Porter, Laddie 4. Sir Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House 5. John Fox Jr., Heart of the Hills 6. Jeffrey Farnol, The Amateur Gentleman 7. Hall Caine, The Woman Thou Gavest Me 8. Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna 9. Hallie Erminie Rives, The Valiants of Virginia 10. Frances Hodgson Burnett, T. Tembarom Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (Engl. translation, 1922)

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Politics Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity Willa Cather, O Pioneers

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds 2. Price Collier, Germany and the Germans 3. Harry A. Franck, Zone Policeman 88 4. Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom 5. James Bryce, South America 6. Arnold Bennett, Your United States 7. Mary Antin, The Promised Land 8. Milton C. Work, Auction Bridge To-Day 9. Eugene Brieux, Three Plays 10. Hugo Munsterberg, Psychology and Industrial Efficiency





1914

Fiction Bestsellers 1. Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World 2. Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna 3. Winston Churchill, The Inside of the Cup 4. Owen Johnson The Salamander 5. William J. Locke, The Fortunate Youth 6. Frances Hodgson Burnett, T. Tembarom 7. Booth Tarkington, Penrod 8. Leona Dalrymple, Diane of the Green Van 9. W. B. Maxwell, The Devil's Garden 10. George Barr McCutcheon, The Prince of Graustark Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery John D. Watson, Behaviorism



1915

Fiction Bestsellers 1. Booth Tarkington, The Turmoil 2. Winston Churchill, A Far Country 3. Gene Stratton Porter, Michael O'Halloran 4. Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up 5. Mary Roberts Rinehart, K 6. William J. Locke, Jaffery 7. F. Hopkinson Smith, Felix O'Day 8. Ernest Poole, The Harbor 9. Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger 10. Henry Sydnor Harrison, Angela's Business Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage James George Frazer, The Golden Bough Van Wyck Brooks, America's Coming of Age Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland Lillian Wald, The House on Henry Street

Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

1916



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Booth Tarkington, Seventeen 2. Harold Bell Wright, When a Man's a Man 3. Eleanor H. Porter, Just David 4. H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through 5. Ellen Glasgow, Life and Gabriella 6. Henry Kitchell Webster, The Real Adventure 7. Ethel M. Dell, Bars of Iron 8. Frank H. Spearman, Nan of Music Mountain 9. Jean Webster, Dear Enemy 10. Kathleen Norris, The Heart of Rachael Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ferdinand de Saussure, A Course in General Linguistics Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism John Dewey, Democracy and Education C. G. Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious

Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race





1917





Fiction Bestsellers

1. H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, 2. Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing, 3. William J. Locke, The Red Planet 4. Eleanor H. Porter, The Road to Understanding 5. Zane Grey, Wildfire 6. Alice Cholmondeley, Christine 7. Robert S. Hichens, In the Wilderness 8. Ernest Poole, His Family 9. Jeffrey Farnol, The Definite Object 10. Ethel M. Dell, The Hundredth Chance Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

D'Arcy Wentworth Thomas, On Growth and Form Walter Rauschenbusch, A Theology for the Social Gospel H. L. Mencken, A Book of Prefaces Elsie Clewes Parsons, Social Rule T. S. Eliot, Prufrock

General Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 2. O. O. Ellis and E. B. Garey, The Plattsburg Manual 3. Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond 4. Alan Seeger, Poems of Alan Seeger 5. H. G. Wells, God the Invisible King 6. Douglas Fairbanks, Laugh and Live 7. Mary Green, Better Meals for Less Money

War Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Ian Hay, The First Hundred Thousand 2. Frances W. Huard, My Home in the Field of Honor 3. Donald Hankey, A Student in Arms 4. Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top 5. Coningsby Dawson, Carry On 6. Ian Hay, Getting Together 7. Frederick Palmer, My Second Year of the War 8. D. Thomas Curtin, The Land of Deepening Shadow 9. H. G. Wells, Italy, France and Britain at War 10. Margaret Sherwood, The Worn Doorstep

1918



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Zane Grey, The U. P. Trail 2. May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven 3. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Amazing Interlude 4. Edward Streeter, Dere Mable 5. Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money! 6. Ethel M. Dell, Greatheart 7. Ralph Connor, The Major 8. E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Pawns Count 9. Gene Stratton Porter, A Daughter of the Land 10. Stephen McKenna, Sonia

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 1 William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians Willa Cather, My Antonia W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America



General Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 2. G. H. Clark, Treasury of War Poetry 3. Everard J. Appleton, With the Colors 4. Viscount Morley, Recollections 5. Douglas Fairbanks, Laugh and Live 6. Albert Bigelow Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Letters 7. Richard Harding Davis, Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 8. Edgar Guest, Over Here 9. Edith O'Shaughnessy, Diplomatic Days 10. Alan Seeger, Poems of Alan Seeger



War Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany 2. Coningsby Dawson, The Glory of the Trenches 3. Arthur Guy Empey, Over the Top 4. Harry Lauder, A Minstrel in France 5. Harold R. Peat, Private Peat 6. Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Outwitting the Hun 7. James W. Gerard, Face to Face with Kaiserism 8. Coningsby Dawson, Carry On 9. Coningsby Dawson, Out to Win 10. Henri Barbusse, Under Fire



1919



Fiction Bestsellers

1. V. Blasco Ibanez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 2. Joseph Conrad, The Arrow of Gold 3. Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat 4. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dangerous Days 5. Ralph Connor, The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land 6. Harold Bell Wright, The Re-Creation of Brian Kent 7. Gene Stratton Porter, Dawn 8. Temple Bailey, The Tin Soldier 9. "Elizabeth", Christopher and Columbus 10. Robert W. Chambers, In Secret Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace Karl Barth, Commentary on Romans Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages

H. G. Wells, Outline of History Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism



Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams 2. Rudyard Kipling, The Years Between 3. Brand Whitlock, Belgium 4. Margaret Cameron, The Seven Purposes 5. John McCrae, In Flanders Fields 6. John Spargo, Bolshevism





1920





Fiction Bestsellers

1. Zane Grey, The Man of the Forest 2. Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust 3. Harold Bell Wright, The Re-Creation of Brian Kent 4. James Oliver Curwood, The River’s End 5. Irving Bacheller, A Man for the Ages 6. Eleanor H. Porter, Mary-Marie 7. Joseph C. Lincoln, The Portygee 8. E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation 9. Ethel M. Dell, The Lamp in the Desert 10. Kathleen Norris, Harriet and the Piper Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence Sinclair Lewis, Main Street Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Collected Legal Papers John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Karl Capek, R.U.R.

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Philip Gibbs, Now It Can Be Told 2. John M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace 3. Joseph B. Bishop, ed., Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children 4. William Roscoe Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt 5. Frederick O’Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas 6. Cornelia Stratton Parker, An American Idyll







1921



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street 2. Dorothy Canfield, The Brimming Cup 3. Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider 4. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence 5. James Oliver Curwood, The Valley of Silent Men 6. Edith M. Hull, The Sheik 7. Mary Roberts Rinehart, A Poor Wise Man 8. Gene Stratton Porter, Her Father’s Daughter 9. Gertrude Atherton, The Sisters-in-Law 10. Coningsby Dawson, The Kingdom Round the Corner Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author Edward Sapir, Language Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess, Introduction to the Science of Society



Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History 2. Frederick O’Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas 3. A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), The Mirrors of Downing Street 4. Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith 6. Robert Lansing, Peace Negotiations









1922



Fiction Bestsellers

1. A.S.M. Hutchinson, If Winter Comes 2. Edith M. Hull, The Sheik 3. Booth Tarkington, Gentle Julia 4. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Head of the House of Coombe 5. Robert Keable, Simon Called Peter 6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Breaking Point 7. A.S.M. Hutchinson, This Freedom 8. Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine 9. Zane Grey, To the Last Man 10. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (tie) 10. Harold Bell Wright, Helen of the Old House (tie) Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James Joyce, Ulysses Harold Stearns, ed., Civilization in the United States Bronislaw Malinowski, The Argonauts of the Western Pacific Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt W. F. Ogburn, Social Change Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 2 Emily Post, Etiquette

E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History 2. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind 3. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok 4. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health 5. James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making 6. J. Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science 7. Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury, Outwitting Our Nerves 8. Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria 9. Anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert), Mirrors of Washington 10. A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), Painted Windows





1923



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Gertrude Atherton, Black Oxen 2. Arthur Train, His Children’s Children 3. “Elizabeth”, The Enchanted April 4. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt 5. Temple Bailey, The Dim Lantern 6. A.S.M. Hutchinson, This Freedom 7. Harold Bell Wright, The Mine with the Iron Door 8. Zane Grey, The Wanderer of the Wasteland 9. Rafael Sabatin, The Sea-Hawk 10. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Breaking Point Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature Robert Frost, New Hampshire Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership Jean Toomer, Cane Khalil Gibran, The Prophet Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy Martin Buber, I and Thou Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, Woman Suffrage and Politics Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Emily Post, Etiquette 2. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ 3. Burton J. Hendrick, ed., The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page 4. James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making 5. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History 6. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health 7. Emile Coué, Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion 8. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok 9. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind 10. Edward Bok, A Man from Maine







1924



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Edna Ferber, So Big 2. Percy Marks, The Plastic Age 3. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl 4. Philip Gibbs, The Heirs Apparent 5. James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage 6. Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon 7. Booth Tarkington, The Midlander 8. Coningsby Dawson, The Coast of Folly 9. Rafael Sabatini, Mistress Wilding 10. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Homemaker Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India Marcel Mauss, The Gift Autobiography of Mark Twain Herman Melville, Billy Budd (posthumous) Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment with Russia Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Shailer Mathews, Faith of Modernism Jean Piaget, Judgment and Reasoning in the Child

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health 2. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ 3. Fannie Farmer, ed. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book 4. Emily Post, Etiquette 5. André Maurois, Ariel 6. Prosper Buranelli et al., The Cross Word Puzzle Books 7. Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography 8. George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan 9. Albert E. Wiggam, The New Decalogue of Science 10. Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok









1925



Fiction Bestsellers

1. A. Hamilton Gibbs, Soundings 2. Margaret Kennedy, The Constant Nymph 3. Gene Stratton Porter, The Keeper of the Bees 4. E. Barrington, Glorious Apollo 5. Michael Arlen, The Green Hat 6. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl 7. Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith 8. Anne Parrish, The Perennial Bachelor 9. Rafael Sabatin, The Carolinian 10. A.S.M. Hutchinson, One Increasing Purpose Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World Franz Kafka, The Trial W. B. Yeats, A Vision Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf John Dewey, Experience and Nature Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (written 1908) Charles Merriam, New Aspects of Politics Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health 2. Fannie Farmer, ed., The Boston Cooking School Cook Book 3. A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young 4. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows 5. Giovanni Papini, The Life of Christ 6. André Maurois, Ariel 7. Edward Bok, Twice Thirty 8. Lord Grey, Twenty-Five Years 9. J. J. Brousson, Anatole France Himself 10. Prosper Buranelli et al., The Cross Word Puzzle Books







1926



Fiction Bestsellers

1. John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy 2. Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3. Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son 4. Sylvia Thompson, The Hounds of Spring 5. P. C. Wren, Beau Sabreur 6. John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon 7. P. C. Wren, Beau Geste 8. Edna Ferber, Show Boat 9. Susan Ertz, After Noon 10. Temple Bailey, The Blue Window Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Franz Kafka, The Castle I. A. Richards, Science and Poetry H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy Lewis Mumford, The Golden Day A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Ivan Pavlov, Conditioned Reflexes

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows 2. George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings 3. Lulu Hunt Peters, Diet and Health 4. Mark Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 1 5. Fannie Farmer, ed., The Boston Cooking School Cook Book 6. Milton C. Work, Auction Bridge Complete 7. Bruce Barton, The Book Nobody Knows 8. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy 9. Edgar A. Guest, The Light of Faith

10. Claude G. Bowers, Jefferson and Hamilton



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes T. S. Stribling, Teeftallow Esther Forbes, O Genteel Lady! Walder Noble Burns, The Saga of Billy the Kid John Galsworthy, The Silver Spoon Edna Ferber, Show Boat Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man Ellen Glasgow, The Romantic Comedians Elinor Wylie, The Orphan Angel





1927



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry 2. Booth Tarkington, The Plutocrat 3. Warwick Deeping, Doomsday 4. Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son 5. Mazo de la Roche, Jalna 6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Lost Ecstasy 7. Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep 8. Anne Parrish, Tomorrow Morning 9. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Old Countess 10. Louis Bromfield, A Good Woman Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Thornton Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems Martin Heidegger, Being and Time V. L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry Percy C. Bridgeman, The Logic of Modern Physics Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian Katherine Mayo, Mother India Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy 2. Emil Ludwig, Napoleon 3. T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert 4. Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, Trader Horn, vol. 1 5. Charles A. Lindbergh, We 6. Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty, Ask Me Another 7. Richard Halliburton, The Royal Road to Romance 8. Richard Halliburton, The Glorious Adventure 9. George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings 10. Katherine Mayo, Mother India



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Bliss Perry, ed., The Heart of Emerson’s Journals Emil Ludwig, Napoleon Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry T. E. Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert James Boyd, Marching On O. E. Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink, Your Money’s Worth H. G. Wells, Meanwhile Rosamond Lehmann, Dusty Answer C. E. Montague, Right Off the Map Margaret Kennedy, Red Sky at Morning Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln





1928



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey 2. Hugh Walpole, Wintersmoon 3. John Galsworthy, Swan Song 4. S. S. Van Dine, The Greene Murder Case 5. Viña Delmar, Bad Girl 6. Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler 7. Warwick Deeping, Old Pybus 8. Anne Parrish, All Kneeling 9. Mazo de la Roche, Jalna 10. Louis Bromfield, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover Arthur Eddington, Nature of the Physical World

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. André Maurois, Disraeli 2. Katherine Mayo, Mother India 3. Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, Trader Horn, vol. 1 4. Emil Ludwig, Napoleon 5. Eugene O’Neill, Strange Interlude 6. Charles A. Lindbergh, We 7. Lowell Thomas, Count Luckner, the Sea Devil 8. Emil Ludwig, Goethe 9. Richard E. Byrd, Skyward 10. George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Booth Tarkington, Claire Ambler André Marois, Disraeli S. Fowler Wright, The Deluge Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel Julian Green, The Closed Garden George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism Felix Salten, Bambi Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body Edith Wharton, The Children Paul de Kruif, Hunger Fighters Charles Beard, ed., Whither Mankind? Arnold Zweig, The Case of Sargeant Grischa





1929



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 2. Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth 3. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dark Hester 4. S. S. Van Dine, The Bishop Murder Case 5. Warwick Deeping, Roper’s Row 6. O. E. Rölvaag, Peder Victorious 7. DuBose Heyward, Mamba’s Daughters 8. Susan Ertz, The Galaxy 9. Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary 10. H. W. Freeman, Joseph and His Brethren Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia Joseph Wood Krutch, Modern Temper Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown John Dewey, Quest for Certainty Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Mohandas Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth Jose Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses



Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking 2. Francis Hackett, Henry the Eighth 3. Joan Lowell, The Cradle of the Deep 4. Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex 5. Chic Sale, The Specialist 6. Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals 7. Robert L. Ripley, Believe It or Not 8. Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown’s Body 9. Claude G. Bowers, The Tragic Era 10. Will Durant, The Mansions of Philosophy

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections H. W. Freeman, Joseph and His Brethren Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter Joan Lowell, Cradle of the Deep Francis Hackett, Henry the Eighth Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Thames Williamson, Hunky Dorothy L. Sayers, ed., The Omnibus of Crime Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions Valentin Kataev, The Embezzlers Bernard Fay, Franklin, The Apostle of Modern Times



1930





Fiction Bestsellers

1. Edna Ferber, Cimarron 2. Warwick Deeping, Exile 3. Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros 4. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace 5. J. B. Priestley, Angel Pavement 6. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Door 7. Hugh Walpole, Rogue Herries 8. A. Hamilton Gibbs, Chances 9. Katharine Brush, Young Man of Manhattan 10. Louis Bromfield, Twenty-Four Hours Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way Norman Forster, Humanism in America William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity





Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele 2. Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker, The Strange Death of President Harding 3. André Maurois, Byron 4. James Truslow Adams, The Adams Family 5. Will James, Lone Cowboy 6. Emil Ludwig, Lincoln 7. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy 8. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History 9. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking 10. Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

W. R. Burnett, Iron Man Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization Harold Lamb, The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints Claire Spencer, Gallows’ Orchard Somerset Maugham et al, The Week-End Library Everett Dean Martin, Liberty Helen Ashton, Dr. Serocold Will James, Lone Cowboy: My Life A. Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes Michael Ossorgin, Quiet Street Major F. Yeats-Brown, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Herman Melville, Moby Dick (ill. Rockwell Kent)





1931



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth 2. Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock 3. Bess Streeter Aldrich, A White Bird Flying 4. Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel 5. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace 6. Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back 7. Warwick Deeping, The Bridge of Desire 8. Fannie Hurst, Back Street 9. Mazo de la Roche, Finch’s Fortune 10. John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

John Dewey, Philosophy and Civilization Edmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography Morris R. Cohen,, Reason and Nature Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock Constance Rourke, American Humor Irma Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking Leon Trotsky, Permanent Revolution

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess 2. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele 3. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), Washington Merry-Go-Round 4. Alexander Abingdon, ill. Dr. Seuss, Boners: Being a Collection of Schoolboy Wisdom or Knowledge 5. Ely Culbertson, Culbertson’s Summary 6. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Blue Book 7. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview 8. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America 9. Stuart Chase, Mexico 10. Mikhail Ilin, New Russia’s Primer

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth Thomas Craven, Men of Art Denis Mackail, The Square Circle M. Ilin, New Russia’s Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan Elizabeth, Father Albert Einstein et al, Living Philosophies Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock Sheila Kaye-Smith, Susan Spray James Gould Cozzens, S. S. San Pedro James truslow Adams, The Epic of America Joseph Roth, Job Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday





1932



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth 2. Charles Morgan, The Fountain 3. Pearl S. Buck, Sons 4. Louis Golding, Magnolia Street 5. Ellen Glasgow, The Sheltered Life 6. Warwick Deeping, Old Wine and New 7. Booth Tarkington, Mary’s Neck 8. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession 9. Phyllis Bentley, Inheritance 10. A. J. Cronin, Three Loves Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World John Dos Passos, 1919 William Faulkner, Light in August Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society John Chamberlain, Farewell to Reform F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means, Modern Corporation and Private Property

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America 2. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday 3. Vash Young, A Fortune to Share 4. Ely Culbertson, Culbertson’s Summary 5. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography 6. Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By 7. James Truslow Adams, The March of Democracy 8. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), Washington Merry-Go-Round 9. Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life 10. Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen), More Merry-Go-Round

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Francis Brett Young, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington Booth Tarkington, Mary’s Neck Vicki Baum, And Life Goes On Hellen Hull, Heat Lightning Homer W. Smith, Kamongo Leweis E. Lawes, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing Charles Morgan, The Fountain Jan Welzl, Thirty Years in the Golden North Jean Schlumberger, Saint Saturnin Antoine de St. Exupéry, Night Flight Hendrik Willem van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty Rosamond Lemann, Invitation to the Waltz Joseph Mathews, Wah ‘Kon-Tah Lloyd Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet





1933



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse 2. Gladys Hasty Carroll, As the Earth Turns 3. Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers 4. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession 5. John Galsworthy, One More River 6. Lloyd C. Douglas, Forgive Us Our Trespasses 7. Mazo de la Roche, The Master of Jalna 8. Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop 9. Louis Bromfield, The Farm 10. Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now? Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Wesley Mitchell et al., Recent Social Trends J.W.N. Sullivan, Limitations of Science Sidney Hook, Toward an Understanding of Karl Marx Morris R. Cohen, Law and the Social John Strachey, Coming Struggle for Power André Malraux, Man’s Fate H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Walter B. Pitkin, Life Begins at Forty 2. Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette 3. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, British Agent 4. Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink, 100,000 Guinea Pigs 5. Nora Waln, The House of Exile 6. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Van Loon’s Geography 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward 8. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933 9. Halliday Sutherland, The Arches of the Years 10. James Truslow Adams, The March of Democracy, vol. 2

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

James Gould Cozzens, The Last Adam R. H. Bruce Lockheart, British Agent Bernard Shaw, Adventures of the Black Girl Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette Gladys Hasty Carroll, As the Earth Turns Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now? Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse Maurice O’Sullivan, Twenty-Years A-Growing W. R. Burnett, Dark Hazard Thames Williamson, Woods Colt Virginia Woolf, Flush Maurice Hindus, The Great Offensive Ralph Roeder, The Man of the Renaissance



1934



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse 2. Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom 3. Stark Young, So Red the Rose 4. James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips 5. Margaret Ayer Barnes, Within This Present 6. Sinclair Lewis, Work of Art 7. Phyllis Bottome, Private Worlds 8. Mary Ellen Chase, Mary Peters 9. Alice Tisdale Hobart, Oil for the Lamps of China 10. Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Robert Graves, I, Claudius John O’Hara, Appointment in Samarra F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer John Dewey, Art as Experience James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return Henry Roth, Call It Sleep T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods Matthew Jacobson, The Robber Barons George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society (posthumous)

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns 2. Walter B. Pitkin, Life Begins at Forty 3. Romola Nijinsky, Nijinsky 4. Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink, 100,000 Guinea Pigs 5. Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return 6. Carl Carmer, Stars Fell on Alabama 7. Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure 8. Ike Hoover, Forty-Two Years in the White House 9. Edmund Jacobson, You Must Relax 10. Charles Dickens, The Life of Our Lord

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons Isak Dineson, Seven Gothic Tales H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death H. G. Wells, Seven Famous Novels Josephine Lawrence, Years are So Long Marguerite Steen, Matador A. P. Herbert, Holy Deadlock Doris Manners-Sutton, Black God Herbert Hoover, The Challenge to Liberty Henry Wallace, New Frontiers H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography Franz Werful, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh





1935



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light 2. Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron 3. Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River 4. Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind 5. James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips 6. Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh 7. Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination 8. James Hilton, Lost Horizon 9. Edna Ferber, Come and Get It 10. Robert Briffault, Europa Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan Trilogy George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change Rudolf Carnap, Philosophy and Logical Syntax Reinhold Niebuhr, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics Thurman Arnold, Symbols of Government

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient 2. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns 3. Clarence Day, Life with Father 4. Vincent Sheean, Personal History 5. T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom 6. Francis Hackett, Francis the First 7. Stefan Zweig, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles 8. Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History 9. Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee 10. M. C. Phillips, Skin Deep



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination Robert Nathan, Road of Ages Leland Hall, Salah and His American Bruno Frank, A Man Called Cervantes Robert Graves, Claudius the God Walter Millis, The Road to War Enid Bagnold, National Velvet Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory Robert Rylee Deep Dark River Clarence Day, Life with Father

Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Mari Sandoz, Old Jules Gen. Armand de Caulaincourt, With Napoleon in Russia





1936



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind 2. George Santayana, The Last Puritan 3. Charles Morgan, Sparkenbroke 4. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk 5. Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here 6. Lloyd C. Douglas, White Banners 7. Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, The Hurricane 8. Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed 9. Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Doctor 10. Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant John Dos Passos, The Big Money A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom! H. D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How? Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown 2. Dorothea Brande, Wake Up and Live! 3. Negley Farson, The Way of a Transgressor 4. Patience, Richard, and Johnny Abbe, Around the World in Eleven Years 5. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient 6. Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey 7. John Gunther, Inside Europe 8. Marjorie Hillis, Live Alone and Like It 9. Clarence Day, Life with Father 10. Walter Duranty, I Write As I Please



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

C. C. Furnas, The Next Hundred Years Josephine Lawerence, If I Have Four Apples George Santayana, The Last Puritan Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris Claence Day, This Simian World Peter Freuchen, Arctic Adventure Arnold Zweig, Education before Verdun André Malraux, Days of Wrath Robert Frost, A Further Range Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind Walter Edmonds, Drums along the Mohawk Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey E. P. O’Donnell, Green Margins A. E. Houseman, More Poems Constance Rourke, Aubudon Pearl S. Buck, Fighting Angel Pearl S. Buck, Exile





1937



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind 2. Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage 3. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel 4. Vaughan Wilkins, And So-Victoria 5. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk 6. Virginia Woolf, The Years 7. W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre 8. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men 9. Louis Bromfield, The Rains Came 10. James Hilton, We Are Not Alone Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men Thurman Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism John Dewey et al., Not Guilty Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown in Transition J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbitt Karen Horney, The Neurotic Personality in Our Time Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Talcott Parsons, The Structure of Social Action

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People 2. Victor Heiser, An American Doctor’s Odyssey 3. Henry C. Link, The Return to Religion 4. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Arts 5. Marjorie Hillis, Orchids on Your Budget 6. Noel Coward, Present Indicative 7. Lancelot Hogben, Mathematics for the Million 8. Clarence Day, Life with Mother 9. Emil Ludwig, The Nile 10. Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

R. C. Hutchnison, Shining Scabbard Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, Beloved Friend John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men H. G. Wells, The Croquet Player Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine Millen Brand, The Outward Room William Mahxwell, They Came Like Swallows Burton J. Hendrick, Bulwark of the Republic Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage Elliott Paul, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town Clyde Brion Davis, The Anointed Ivan Sanderson, Animal Treasure J. B. Rhine, New Frontiers of the Mind Stuart Cloete, The Turning Wheels Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living V. Sackville-West, Pepita





1938



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling 2. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel 3. Howard Spring, My Son, My Son! 4. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca 5. Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage 6. Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too 7. Louis Bromfield, The Rains Came 8. Laura Krey, And Tell of Time 9. Phyllis Bottome, The Mortal Storm 10. Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Evelyn Waugh, Scoop Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities John Dewey, Logic B. F. Skinner, Behavior of Organisms Thornton Wilder, Our Town James Hilton, Lost Horizon Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living 2. Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some 3. Eve Curie, Madame Curie 4. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind 5. Arthur E. Hertzler, The Horse and Buggy Doctor 6. Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People 7. Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin 8. Ogden Nash, I’m a Stranger Here Myself 9. Richard E. Byrd, Alone 10. Margaret Armstrong, Fanny Kemble

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

C. P. Rohacanachi, Forever Ulysses Commander Edward Ellsberg, Hell on Ice Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa Charles Allen Smart, R. F. D. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling Paul de Kruif, The Fight for Life Eric Knight et al, The Flying Yorkshireman Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel Margaret Armstrong, Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian Arthur E. Hertzler, The Horse and Buggy Doctor Roger Vercel, The Tides of Mont St-Michel Margaret Halsey, With Malice toward Some Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin Irwin Edman, Philosopher’s Holiday Antonina Vallentin, Leonardo da Vinci





1939



Fiction Bestseller

1. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

2. Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

3. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

4. John Marquard, Wickford Point

5. Ethel Vance, Escape

6. Lloyd C. Douglas, Disputed Passage

7. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

8. Elizabeth Page, The Tree of Liberty

9. Sholem Asch, The Nazarene

10. Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust James Joyce, Finnegans Wake Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology John Dewey, Freedom and Culture Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and the Tradition Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Pierre Van Paasen, Days of Our Years

2. Nora Waln, Reaching for the Stars

3. John Gunther, Inside Asia

4. William Lyon Phelps, Autobiography with Letters

5. Bellamy Partridge, Country Lawyer

6. Antoine de St. Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars 7. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

8. Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure

9. Vincent Sheehan, Not Peace but a Sword

10. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind









Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone Logan Persoall Smith, Unforgotten Years Pierre van Paassen, Days of Our Years Pearl S. Buck, The Patriot Christopher LaFarge, Each to the Other Nevil Shute, Ordeal C. S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower Charles and Mary Beard, America in Midpassage Antoine de St. Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars Angela Thirkell, The Brandons Vincint Sheean, Not Peace but a Sword Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete Amram Scheinfeld, You and Heredity Ethel Vance, Escape Sholem Asch, The Nazarene Lin Yutang, Moment in Peking



1940





Fiction Bestsellers 1. Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley 2. Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle 3. Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver 4. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls 5. Sholem Asch, The Nazarene 6. F. van Wyck Mason, Stars on the Sea 7. Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell 8. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 9. Louis Bromfield, Night in Bombay 10. Nina Fedorova, The Family Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Richard Wright, Native Son



Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Osa Johnson, I Married Adventure 2. Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book 3. Oscar Levant, A Smattering of Ignorance 4. John T. Flynn, Country Squire in the White House 5. Agnes Newton Keith, Land Below the Wind 6. Joseph W. Alsop Jr. and Robert Kintnor, American White Paper 7. Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer 8. Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him 9. Pierre van Paassen, Days of Our Years 10. Betty B. Blunt, Bet It’s a Boy

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Jules Romains, Verdun Zsolt de Harsányi, The Star-Gazer Conrad Richter, The Trees Richard Wright, Native Son Elizabeth, Mr. Skeffington Sir Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission Osa Johnson, I Married Adventure Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him Harold Laski, The American Presidency Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer Margaret Armstrong, Trelawny Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Franz Werfel, Embezzled Heaven

1941



Fiction Bestsellers 1. A. J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom 2. James Hilton, Random Harvest 3. Eric Knight, This Above All 4. Marguerite Steen, The Sun Is My Undoing 5. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls 6. Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell 7. John P. Marquand, H. M. Pulham, Esquire 8. Isabel Scott Rorick, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat 9. Edna Ferber, Saratoga Trunk 10. Mary Ellen Chase, Windswept Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol. 1 Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom Joseph Davies, Mission to Moscow James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Fomous Men F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South W. Lloyd Warner and Paul S. Lunt, The Social Life of a Modern Community Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary 2. Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs 3. Jan Valtin, Out of the Night 4. John Gunther, Inside Latin America 5. Winston S. Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears 6. Douglas Miller, You Can’t Do Business with Hitler 7. Clifton Fadiman, ed., Reading I’ve Liked 8. Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington 9. Irvin S. Cob, Exit Laughing 10. Dirk van der Heide, My Sister and I

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl William Saroyan, My Name is Aram Jan Valtin, Out of the Night John Marquand, H. M. Pulham, Esquire Gontran de Poincins, Kabloona Gunnar Gunnarsson, The Good Shepherd Winston Churchill, Blood, Sweat, and Tears Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon Sally Benson, Junior Miss William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary A. J. Cronin, Keys of the Kingdom Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington John Gunther, Inside Latin America T. R. Ybarra, Young Man of Caracas George Steward, Storm S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Action

1942



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette 2. John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down 3. Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed 4. Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow 5. Elizabeth Pickett, Drivin’ Woman 6. Mary Ellen Chase, Windswept 7. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe 8. Marguerite Steen, The Sun Is My Undoing 9. Henry Bellamann, Kings Row 10. A. J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses Albert Camus, The Stranger Suzanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy Margaret Mead, And Keep Your Powder Dry Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps Beryl Markham, West with the Night Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Marion Hargrove, See Here, Private Hargrove 2. Joseph E. Davies, Mission to Moscow 3. Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris 4. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek 5. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, Victory Through Air Power 6. Ilka Chase, Past Imperfect 7. W. L. White, They Were Expendable 8. Antoine de St. Exupéry, Flight to Arras 9. W. M. Kiplinger, Washington Is Like That 10. John Gunther, Inside Latin America

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Arthur Meeker, Jr., The Ivory Mischief Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek Raoul de Roussy de Sales, The Making of Tomorrow

Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette Alexander P. de Seversky, Victory through Air Power Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust Robert Trumbell, The Raft Gertrude Diamant, The Days of Ofelia Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross W. L. White, They Were Expendable LeGrand Cannon, Jr., Look to the Mountain Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Louis Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods

1943



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe 2. Marcia Davenport, The Valley of Decision 3. John P. Marquand, So Little Time 4. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 5. William Saroyan, The Human Comedy 6. Louis Bromfield, Mrs. Parkington 7. Sholem Asch, The Apostle 8. Daphne du Maurier, Hungry Hill 9. Hervey Allen, The Forest and the Fort 10. Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Reinhold Niebuhr, Nature and Destiny of Man, vol. 2 Carey McWilliams, Brothers under the Skin Wendell Willkie, One World C. L. Hull. Principles of Behavior Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Isabel Patterson, God of the Machine William F. Whyte, Street Corner Society

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. John Roy Carlson, Under Cover 2. Wendell L. Willkie, One World 3. Eve Curie, Journey Among Warriors 4. Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person 5. Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary 6. Lt. Col. Gordon Seagrave, Burma Surgeon 7. Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay 8. Walter Lippmann, U. S. Foreign Policy 9. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War 10. Marion Hargrove, See Here, Private Hargrove

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands Norman Angell, Let the People Know Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary William Saroyan, The Human Comedy Berry Fleming, Colonel Effingham’s Raid Bernard De Voto, The Year of Decision: 1846 Mark Aldanov, The Fifth Seal Isak Dinesen, Winter’s Tales Hilary A. St. George Sanuders, Combined Operations Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star Walter Lippmann, U. S. Foreign Policy John C. Miller, Origins of the American Revolution Capt. Ted W. Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo John Marquand, So Little Time Etta Shiber, Paris-Underground Corp. Thomas St. George, c/o Postmaster Ralph Ingersoll, The Battle is the Pay-Off Katharine Butler Hathaway, The Little Locksmith Jesse Stuart, Taps for Private Tussie

1944



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Lillian Smith, Strange Fruit 2. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe 3. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4. Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber 5. W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge 6. A. J. Cronin, The Green Years 7. Ben Ames Williams, Leave Her to Heaven 8. Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street 9. John Hersey, A Bell for Adano 10. Sholem Asch, The Apostle Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma David Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom C. L. Stevenson, Ethics and Language Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones Helene Deutsch, Psychology of Women Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Bob Hope, I Never Left Home 2. Ernie Pyle, Brave Men 3. Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince 4. John Roy Carlson, Under Cover 5. Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus 6. Sumner Welles, The Time for Decision 7. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War 8. Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam 9. Quentin Reynolds, The Curtain Rises 10. Joseph C. Grew, Ten Years in Japan

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections E. Arnot Robertson, The Signpost George Santayana, Persons and Places Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer Ludwig Bemelmans, Now I Law Me Down to Sleep Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather Zofia Kossak, Blessed Are the Meek Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus H. E. Bates, Fair Stood the Wind for France James Norman Hall, Lost Island Thomas Mann, Joseph the Provider Sumner Welles, The Time for Decision Margery Sharp, Cluny Brown Nevil Shute, Pastoral Van Wyck Brooks, The World of Washington Irving Harold G. Maulton and Louis Marlio, Control of Germany and Japan Herbert Best, Young ‘Un Denis Brogan, The American Character Ernie Pyle, Brave Men

1945



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber 2. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe 3. Thomas B. Costain, The Black Rose 4. James Ramsey Ullman, The White Tower 5. Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane 6. Adria Locke Langley, A Lion Is in the Streets 7. James Hilton, So Well Remembered 8. Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile 9. Adria Locke Langley, Earth and High Heaven 10. Irving Stone, Immortal Wife Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant George Orwell, Animal Farm Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Richard Wright, Black Boy Henry Green, Loving Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies Vannevar Bush, Science—The Endless Frontier T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Ernie Pyle, Brave Men 2. Juliet Lowell, Dear Sir 3. Bill Mauldin, Up Front 4. Richard Wright, Black Boy 5. Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me 6. George and Helen Papashvily, Anything Can Happen 7. U.S. War Department General Staff, General Marshall’s Report 8. Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I 9. James Thurber, The Thurber Carnival 10. Louis Bromfield, Pleasant Valley

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State George and Helen Papashvily, Anything Can Happen James Thurber, The Thurber Carnival Richard Wright, Black Boy Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens

Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source Ira Wolfert, American Guerrilla in the Philippines C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith Bill Mauldlin, Up Front Lau Shaw, Rickshaw Boy James Ramsey Ullman, The White Tower Sinclair lewis, Cass Timberlane Constantin Simonov, Days and Nights Peter Bowman, Beach Red Robert Gibbings, Lovely is the Lee

1946



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Daphne du Maurier, The King’s General 2. Taylor Caldwell, This Side of Innocence 3. Frances Parkinson Keyes, The River Road 4. Russell Janney, The Miracle of the Bells 5. Frederic Wakeman, The Hucksters 6. Frank Yerby, The Foxes of Harrow 7. Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph 8. Thomas B. Costain, The Black Rose 9. John P. Marquand, B. F.’s Daughter 10. Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men Benjamin Spock, Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care Hans Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism John Hersey, Hiroshima James B. Conant, Understanding Science Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (posthumous) Peter F. Drucker, Concept of the Corporation Erich Auerbach, Mimesis Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I 2. Joshua L. Liebman, Peace of Mind 3. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It 4. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew 5. Ernie Pyle, Last Chapter 6. Thomas Sugrue and Col. Edmund Starling, Starling of the White House 7. Victor Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom 8. Emery Reves, The Anatomy of Peace 9. Ralph Ingersoll, Top Secret 10. Gene Fowler, A Solo in Tom-Toms

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph The Autobiogarphy of William Allen White Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit Jim Corbett, Man-Easters of Kumaon Capt. Harry Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower Frederic Wakeman, The Hucksters Margery Sharp, Britannia Mews Halldór Laxness, Independent People Chistopher LaFarge, The Sudden Guest George Orwell, Animal Farm T. H. White, Mistress Masham’s Repose Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder out of China John Hersey, Hiroshima Stefan Zweig, Balzac

1947



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Russell Janney, The Miracle of the Bells 2. Thomas B. Costain, The Moneyman 3. Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement 4. Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey 5. Frank Yerby, The Vixens 6. John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus 7. Ben Ames Williams, House Divided 8. Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal 9. Marcia Davenport, East Side, West Side 10. Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (written 1944) Lionel Trilling, Middle of the Journey Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight, Moon Paul Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (posthumous)

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Joshua L. Liebman, Peace of Mind 2. John Kieran, ed., Information Please Almanac, 1947 3. John Gunther, Inside U.S.A. 4. Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History 5. James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly 6. Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, Human Destiny 7. Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I 8. Roger Butterfield, The American Past 9. Margaret B. Boni, ed., The Fireside Book of Folk Songs 10. Katharine T. Marshall, Together

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Pierre Andézel, The Angelic Avengers Eric Hodgins, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Paul M. Angle, ed., The Lincoln Reader John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus Agnes Newton Keith, Three Came Home Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn John Fischer, Why They Behave Like Russians John Gunther, Inside U.S.A. Natalie Anderson Scott, The Story of Mrs. Murphy Thomas B. Costain, The Moneyman H. R. Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna Thomas W. Buncan, Gus the Great Charles F. Ramuz, When the Mountain Fell Walter Karig, Zotz! Bill Mauldin, Back Home Valeniten Davies, Miracle on 34th Street Guy McCrone, Red Plush

1948



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman 2. Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead 3. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Dinner at Antoine’s 4. Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Bishop’s Mantle 5. Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better 6. Frank Yerby, The Golden Hawk 7. Ross Lockridge Jr., Raintree County 8. A. J. Cronin, Shannon’s Way 9. Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim’s Inn 10. Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant B. F. Skinner, Walden Two Norbert Wiener, Control and Connection James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead Alfred Kinsey et al., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm William Vogt, Road to Survival

Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country Paul Samuelson, Economics

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe 2. Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living 3. Joshua L. Liebman, Peace of Mind 4. A. C. Kinsey et al., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male 5. Billy Rose, Wine, Women and Words 6. Al Capp, The Life and Times of the Shmoo 7. Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm 8. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins 9. Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living 10. Betty MacDonald, The Plague and I

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Ross Lockridge, Jr., Raintree Country Carl Van Doren, The Great Rehearsal Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March Josephine Pinkney, The Great Mischief George Stewart, Fire Louis P. Lochner, ed., The Goebbels Diaries Margery Sharp, The Foolish Gentlewoman Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter C. S. Forester, The Sky and the Forest William Vogt, Road to Survival Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will be Better Esther Forbes, The Running of the Tide Somerset Maugham, Cataline Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus Dwight Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe David Bradley, No Place to Hide

1949



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Mika Waltari, The Egyptian 2. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman 3. Sholem Asch, Mary 4. John O’Hara, A Rage to Live 5. John P. Marquand, Point of No Return 6. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Dinner at Antoine’s 7. Thomas B. Costain, High Towers 8. Van Wyck Mason, Cutlass Empire 9. Frank Yerby, Pride’s Castle 10. Edward Streeter, Father of the Bride Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Clare Barnes Jr., White Collar Zoo 2. Oswald Jacoby, How to Win at Canasta 3. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain 4. Clare Barnes Jr., Home Sweet Zoo 5. Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen 6. Fulton Oursler, The Greatest Story Ever Told 7. Ottilie H. Reilly, Canasta, the Argentine Rummy Game 8. Josephine Artayeta de Viel and Ralph Michael, Canasta 9. Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul 10. Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections

Frank Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen Fred Gipson, Hound-Dog Man R. C. Hutchinson, Elephant and the Castle Francis Faither, Double Muscadine Winston Churchill, Their Finest Hour Pearl S. Buck, Kinfolk Edward Streeter, Father of the Bride Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman John Gunther, Behind the Curtain George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Vincent Sheean, Lead Kindly Light H. A. Oversteret, The Mature Mind Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark Mika Waltari, The Egyptian A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember Vannevar Bush, Modern Arms and Free Men



1950



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal 2. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Joy Street 3. Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees 4. John Hersey, The Wall 5. Kathleen Winsor, Star Money 6. Daphne du Maurier, The Parasites 7. Frank Yerby, Floodtide 8. Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail 9. Mika Waltari, The Adventurer 10. Budd Schulberg, The Disenchanted Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale Theodor Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality David Riesman et al., The Lonely Crowd Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society Henry Steele Commager, The American Mind Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

Nonfiction Bestsellers

1. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book 2. The Baby 3. Gayelord Hauser, Look Younger, Live Longer 4. Frank Bettger, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling 5. Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki 6. Peter Marshall, Mr. Jones, Meet the Master 7. Hubbard Cob, Your Dream Home 8. H. A. Overstreet, The Mature Mind 9. Clare Barnes Jr., Campus Zoo 10. Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Belles on Their Toes

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Louise Hall Tharp, The Peabody Sisters of Salem E. B. White, Here is New York Joyce Cary, The Horse’s Mouth John Hersey, The Wall Marchette Chute, Shakespeare of London Louise Field Cooper, The Boys from Sharon Winston Churchill, The Grand Alliance Alexandra Orme, Comes the Comrade! Genrald W. Johnson, Incredible Tale Catherine Drinker Bowen, John Adams and the American Revolution Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses Turnley Walker, Rise Up and Walk Giovanni Guaraschi, The Little World of Don Camillo Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki Eric Hodgins, Blandings’ Way Frank Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Belles on Their Toes Budd Schulberg, The Disenchanted Winston Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

1951



Fiction Bestsellers 1. James Jones, From Here to Eternity 2. Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny 3. Sholem Asch, Moses 4. Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal 5. Frank Yerby, A Woman Called Fancy 6. Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea 7. John P. Marquand, Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. 8. James A. Michener, Return to Paradise 9. Cardinal Spellman, The Foundling 10. Mika Waltari, The Wanderer Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant James Jones, From Here to Eternity J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye C. Wright Mills, White Collar Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism George Kennan, American Diplomacy, 1900–1950 Hans Reichenback, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy C. Vann Woodward, The Origins of the New South Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values Talcott Parsons, The Social System Talcott Parsons, Toward a General Theory of Action Isaac Asimov, Foundation William F. Buckley, Jr., God and Man at Yale

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Gayelord Hauser, Look Younger, Live Longer 2. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book 3. Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential 4. Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book 5. Better Homes and Gardens Handyman’s Book 6. Rachel L. Carson, The Sea Around Us 7. Clarence L. Barnhart, ed., Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary 8. Walt Kelly, Pogo 9. Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki 10. The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections James Ramsey Ullman, River of the Sun Rumer Godden, A Breath of Air Donald Powell Wilson, My Six Convicts Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow Nevil Shute, Round the Bend Odell and Willard Shepard, Jenkins’ Ear James Michener, Return to Paradise Lion Feuchtwanger, This is the Hour J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Gen. Omar N. Bradley, A Soldier’s Story Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea Thomas Mann, The Holy Sinner Nancy Mitford, The Blessing Henry Myers, The Tumpost Land William O. Douglas, Strange Lands and Friendly People Winston Churcill, Closing the Ring

1952



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice 2. Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny 3. John Steinbeck, East of Eden 4. Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel 5. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Steamboat Gothic 6. Edna Ferber, Giant 7. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 8. Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Gown of Glory 9. Frank Yerby, The Saracen Blade 10. Howard Spring, The Houses in Between Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man The Bible, Revised Standard Version Whittaker Chambers, Witness Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny Lawrence Gowing, Vermeer E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version 2. Catherine Marshall, A Man Called Peter 3. Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, U.S.A. Confidential 4. Rachel L. Carson, The Sea Around Us 5. Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah 6. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking 7. Edward P. Morgan, ed.; Edward R. Murrow, foreword, This I Believe 8. Wilson Hicks, ed., This Is Ike 9. Whittaker Chambers, Witness 10. William Hillman, Mr. President

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Carl Jonas, Jefferson Selleck Daphne Rooke, Mittee T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals C. S. Forester, Lieutenant Hornblower S. N. Behrman, Duveen Howard Spring, The Houses in Between Whittaker Chambers, Witness Barnaby Conrad, Matador Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space Thomas E. Dewey, Journey to the Far Pacific Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Robert Raynolds, The Sinner of Saint Ambrose Mary Borden, You, the Jury Edna Ferber, Giant Frededrick Lewis Allen, The Big Change J. A. Hunter, Hunter Robert Carson, The Magic Lantern

1953



Fiction Bestsellers

1. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe 2. Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice 3. Annemarie Selinko, Désirée 4. Leon M. Uris, Battle Cry 5. James Jones, From Here to Eternity 6. Ernest K. Gann, The High and the Mighty 7. A. J. Cronin, Beyond This Place 8. James Hilton, Time and Time Again 9. Samuel Shellabarger, Lord Vanity 10. Ben Ames Williams, The Unconquered Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain Winston Churchill, The Second World War Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March Daniel J. Boorstin, The Genius of American Politics Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History

Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female C. Milosz, The Captive Mind Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (posthumous) Robert A. Nisbet, The Quest for Community Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind Meyer Howard Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version 2. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking 3. Alfred C. Kinsey et al., Sexual Behavior in the Human Female 4. Dale Evans Rogers, Angel Unaware 5. Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living 6. Catherine Marshall, A Man Called Peter 7. Edward P. Morgan, ed.; Edward R. Murrow, foreword, This I Believe 8. Fulton Oursler and G.A.O. Armstrong, The Greatest Faith Ever Known 9. Tommy Armour, How to Play Your Best Golf 10. Polly Adler, A House Is Not a Home

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Edgar Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph John Phillips, The Second Happiest Day Eleanor Ruggles, Prince of Players March Cost, The Hour Awaits Dan Cushman, Stay Away, Joe Ernest Gann, The High and the Mighty Rumer Godden, Kingfishers Catch Fire Richard Bissell, 7½ Cents Vercors, You Shall Know Them Geoffrey Cotterell, Westward the Sun Eugenie Clark, Lady with a Spear Alan Paton, Too Late the Phalarope Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis Dorothy James Roberts, The Enchanted Cup Theodore H. White, Fire in the Ashes Winston Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

1954



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Morton Thompson, Not as a Stranger 2. Daphne du Maurier, Mary Anne 3. Irving Stone, Love Is Eternal 4. Frances Parkinson Keyes, The Royal Box 5. Mika Waltari, The Egyptian 6. Mac Hyman, No Time for Sergeants 7. John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday 8. Hamilton Basso, The View from Pompey’s Head 9. Taylor Caldwell, Never Victorious, Never Defeated 10. Frank Yerby, Benton’s Row Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant William Golding, Lord of the Flies Iris Murdoch, Under the Net Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions Lord David Cecil, Melbourne J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings David Potter, People of Plenty Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems Jacques Ellul, Technological Society Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 1

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version 2. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking 3. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book 4. Betty Crocker’s Good and Easy Cook Book 5. Grantland Rice, The Tumult and the Shouting 6. Lillian Roth, Gerold Frank, and Mike Connolly, I’ll Cry Tomorrow 7. Catherine Marshall, The Prayers of Peter Marshall 8. Raymond Swing, ed., This I Believe, vol. 2 9. Elmer Davis, But We Were Born Free 10. Roger Butterfield, ed., The Saturday Evening Post Treasury

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Jassamyn West, Cress Delahanty James Dugan, The Great Iron Ship Ewen Montagu, The Man Who Never Was Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet John Masters, Bhowani Junction R. B. Robertson, Of Whales and Men Erich Maria Remarque, A Time to Love and a Time to Die Daphne du Maurier, Mary Anne Igor Gauzenko, The Fall of a Titan Hermann Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill Aubrey Menen, The Ramayana Douglass Wallop, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant Mac Hyman, No Time for Sergeants Frances Gray Patton, Good Morning, Miss Dove Marcia Davenport, My Brother’s Keeper Guy Murchie, Song of the Sky

1955



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar 2. Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame 3. MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville 4. Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse 5. Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 6. Robert Ruark, Something of Value 7. Morton Thompson, Not As a Stranger 8. Mac Hyman, No Time for Sergeants 9. Thomas B. Costain, The Tontine 10. John O’Hara, Ten North Frederick Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son Walter Lippmann, The Public Philosophy Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization Will Herberg, Protestant–Catholic–Jew Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques Edward Bernays, The Engineering of Consent Edward Steichen, The Family of Man

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea 2. Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking 3. Edward Steichen, The Family of Man 4. Catherine Marshall, A Man Called Peter 5. John A. Schindler, How to Live 365 Days a Year 6. Better Homes and Gardens Diet Book 7. Billy Graham, The Secret of Happiness 8. Rudolf Flesch, Why Johnny Can’t Read 9. John Gunther, Inside Africa 10. Harry S Truman, Year of Decisions

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Zoé Oldenbourg, The Cornerstone Jim Bishop, The Day Lincoln Was Shot Paul Herrmann, Conquest by Man C. S. Forester, The Good Shepherd Storm Jameson, The Hidden River Robert Ruark, Something of Value Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve

Betty MacDonald, Onions in the Stew Clemence Dane, The Flower Girls Saumal Hopkins Adams, Grandfather Stories Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar John Gunther, Inside Africa MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville David Howarth, We Die Alone Rumer Godden, An Episode of Sparrows

1956



Fiction Bestsellers 1. William Brinkley, Don’t Go Near the Water 2. Edwin O’Connor, The Last Hurrah 3. Grace Metalious, Peyton Place 4. Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame 5. Kay Thompson, Eloise 6. MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville 7. Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile 8. Nicholas Monsarrat, The Tribe That Lost Its Head 9. Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins 10. Kenneth Roberts, Boon Island Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite Allen Ginsberg, Howl William H. Whyte, The Organization Man Walter Kaufmann, ed., Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre Grace Metalious, Peyton Place A. J. Liebling, The Sweet Science

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Dan Dale Alexander, Arthritis and Common Sense, rev. ed. 2. David B. Guralnik, Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, concise ed. 3. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book, 2d ed. 4. Frances Benton, Etiquette 5. Better Homes and Gardens Barbecue Book 6. Morey Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy 7. Smiley Blanton, Love or Perish 8. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book 9. John A. Schindler, How To Live 365 Days a Year 10. Kathryn Hulme, The Nun’s Story

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections John Masters, Bugles and a Tiger Edwin O’Connor, The Last Hurrah Harry S. Truman, Memories Samuel Chotzinoff, Toscanini Van Wyck Brooks, Helen Keller Winston Churchill, The Birth of Britain Eugene Burdick, The Ninth Wave J. C. Furnas, Goodbye to Uncle Tom William Brinkley, Don’t Go Near the Water Herbert Wendt, In Search of Adam Kathryn Hulme, The Nun’s Story Guy Endore, King of Paris Bruce Catton, This Hallowed Ground Winston Churchill, The New World

1957



Fiction Bestsellers 1. James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed 2. Grace Metalious, Peyton Place 3. Meyer Levin, Compulsion 4. Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys! 5. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Blue Camellia 6. Kay Thompson, Eloise in Paris 7. Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat 8. Nevil Shute, On the Beach 9. Thomas B. Costain, Below the Salt 10. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Jack Kerouac, On the Road (written 1951) John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures Milovan Djilas, New Class

Roland Barthes, Mythologies Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism Doctor Seuss, The Cat in the Hat Dwight Macdonald, Memoirs of a Revolutionist Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Art Linkletter, Kids Say the Darndest Things! 2. Don Whitehead, The FBI Story 3. Norman Vincent Peale, Stay Alive All Your Life 4. Catherine Marshall, To Live Again 5. Better Homes and Gardens Flower Arranging 6. Robert Paul Smith, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing 7. Bernard M. Baruch, Baruch: My Own Story 8. Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies 9. The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places 10. Jim Bishop, The Day Christ Died

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Martin Russ, The Last Parallel: A Marine’s War Journal Gerald Green, The Last Angry Man Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order Walter Lord, Day of Infamy Richard Bissell, Say, Darling Nicholas E. Wyckoff, The Braintree Mission John Steinbeck, The Short Reign of Pippin IV Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide Heword Swiggett, The Durable Fire Peter Fleming, Operation Sea Lion Patrick White, Voss James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed Wisnton Churchill, The Age of Revolution Nancy Wilson Ross, The Return of Lady Brace Storm Jameson, A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill Margaret L. Coit, Mr. Baruch

1958



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago 2. Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder 3. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita 4. Patrick Dennis, Around the World with Auntie Mame 5. John O’Hara, From the Terrace 6. Kay Thompson, Eloise at Christmastime 7. Edna Ferber, Ice Palace 8. Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman 9. Jerome Weidman, The Enemy Camp 10. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Victorine Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society Martin Luther King, Jr., Strive toward Freedom Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition Elie Wiesel, Night Edward C. Banfield, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Art Linkletter, Kids Say the Darndest Things! 2. Pat Boone, Twixt Twelve and Twenty 3. Harry Golden, Only in America 4. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit 5. Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies 6. Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book 7. J. P. Phillips, trans., The New Testament in Modern English 8. Thor Heyerdahl, Aku-Aku 9. Abigail Van Buren, Dear Abby 10. John Gunther, Inside Russia Today

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder W. S. Swanberg, First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman Winston Churchill, The Great Democracies John Gunther, Inside Russia Today Theodor H. White, The Mountain Road Elick Moll, Seidman and Son Jerome Weidman, The Enemy Camp Mary Renault, The King Must Die Alan Moorehead, The Russian Revolution Thor Heyerdahl, Aku-Aku: The Story of Easter Island Roger Vailland, The Law William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life a Madame de Staël Mary McMinnies, The Visitors

1959



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Leon Uris, Exodus 2. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago 3. James Michener, Hawaii 4. Allen Drury, Advise and Consent 5. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover 6. William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick, The Ugly American 7. Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician 8. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita 9. Paul Gallico, Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris 10. Robert Ruark, Poor No More Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination Harold Rosenberg, The Tradition of the New Richard Ellmann, James Joyce William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch Norman O. Brown, Life against Death William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Pat Boone, Twixt Twelve and Twenty 2. D. C. Jarvis, Folk Medicine 3. Harry Golden, For 2¢ Plain 4. Vance Packard, The Status Seekers 5. Moss Hart, Act One 6. Cliff Arquette, Charley Weaver’s Letters from Mamma 7. William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style 8. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook 9. Harry Golden, Only in America 10. Alexander King, Mine Enemy Grows Older

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Coming of the New Deal Eleazar Lipsky, The Scientists Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great Robert Payne, The Gold of Troy Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage Elizabeth Janeway, The Third Choice James Thurber, The Years with Ross Joseph Kessel, The Lion Peter De Vries, The Tents of Wickedness R. L. Bruckberger, Image of America Allen Drury, Advise and Consent Samuel Eliot Morison, John Paul Jones John Hersey, The War Lover Margaret Leech, In the Days of McKinley James A. Michener, Hawaii

1960





Fiction Bestsellers 1. Allen Drury, Advise and Consent 2. James A. Michener, Hawaii 3. Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard 4. Irving Wallace, The Chapman Report 5. John O’Hara, Ourselves To Know 6. Marcia Davenport, The Constant Image 7. Mary Ellen Chase, The Lovely Ambition 8. Taylor Caldwell, The Listener 9. Nevil Shute, Trustee from the Toolroom 10. John O’Hara, Sermons and Soda-Water Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion John Updike, Rabbit, Run W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth S. M. Lipset, Political Man John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision Angus Campbell et al., The American Voter E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion Hans Gadamer, Truth and Method Günter Grass, The Tin Drum Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology Bruno Bettelheim, The Informed Heart Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. D. C. Jarvis, Folk Medicine 2. Better Homes and Gardens First Aid for Your Family 3. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook 4. Alexander King, May This House Be Safe from Tigers 5. Better Homes and Gardens Dessert Book 6. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Ideas 7. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 8. Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative 9. Jack Paar, I Kid You Not 10. Pat Boone, Between You, Me and the Gatepost



Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Fosco Maraini, Meeting with Japan Alan Moorehead, No Room in the Ark J. B. Priestley, Literature and Western Man Nevil Shute, Trustee from the Toolroom Laurie Lee, The Edge of Day Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard C. P. Snow, The Affair Walter Lord, The Good Years Elizabeth Nowell, Thomas Wolfe Vinnie Williams, Walk Egypt Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval S. N. Behrman, Portrait of Max William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Keith Wheeler, Peaceable Lane Alan Moorehead, The White Nile

1961



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy 2. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey 3. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 4. Leon Uris, Mila 18 5. Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers 6. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer 7. A. A. Milne, Winnie Ille Pu, trans. Alexander Lenard (Latin) 8. Morris West, Daughter of Silence 9. Edwin O’Connor, The Edge of Sadness 10. John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science Robert Dahl, Who Governs? Erving Goffman, Asylums Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (U.S. publication) Clement Greenberg, Art and Culture Walker Percy, The Moviegoer V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road Lewis Mumford, The City in History Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. The New English Bible: The New Testament 2. William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 3. Better Homes and Gardens Sewing Book 4. Casserole Cook Book 5. William Lederer, A Nation of Sheep 6. Better Homes and Gardens Nutrition for Your Family 7. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960 8. Dr. Herman Taller, Calories Don’t Count 9. Betty Crocker’s New Picture Cook Book: New Edition 10. Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Isak Dinesen, Shadows on the Grass Ernest K. Gann, Fate is the Hunter Rumer Godden, China Court Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy Paul Horgan, Citizen of New Salem C. P. Snow, Science and Government George F. Kennan, Rus and the West under Lenin and Stalin Edwin O’Connor, The Edge of Sadness Theodore W. White, The Making of the President—1960 John Gunther, Inside Europe Today George Waller, Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury Audrey Ersine Lindop, The Way of the Lantern

1962



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools 2. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Dearly Beloved 3. Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference 4. Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawke 5. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey 6. Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe 7. Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, Seven Days in May 8. Irving Wallace, The Prize 9. Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy 10. William Faulkner, The Reivers Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Michael Harrington, The Other America Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics Fritz Machlup, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the U.S.

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Dr. Herman Taller, Calories Don’t Count 2. The New English Bible: The New Testament 3. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book: New Edition 4. Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps! 5. Charles M. Schulz, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy 6. Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking: New Edition 7. Louis Nizer, My Life in Court 8. Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds 9. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl 10. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Al Dewlen, Twilight of Honor Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawke Barbara Ward, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations William Faulkner, The Reivers Robert Ruark, Uhuru John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley Jane Barry, A Time in the Sun Alan Moorhead, The Blue Nile Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe Page Smith, John Adams: 1735–1926

1963



Fiction Bestsellers 1. Morris L. West, The Shoes of the Fisherman 2. Mary McCarthy, The Group 3. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour—An Introduction 4. James A. Michener, Caravans 5. John O’Hara, Elizabeth Appleton 6. Taylor Caldwell, Grandmother and the Priests 7. John Rechy, City of Night 8. Daphne du Maurier, The Glass-Blowers 9. Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles 10. Rumer Godden, The Battle of the Villa Fiorita Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Mary McCarthy, The Group James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations

LeRoi Jones, Blues People

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Charles M. Schulz, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy 2. Charles M. Schulz, Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket 3. Victor Lasky, J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth 4. John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage: Inaugural Edition 5. Virginia Cary Hudson, 0 Ye Jigs & Juleps! 6. Better Homes and Gardens Bread Cook Book 7. The Pillsbury Family Cookbook 8. Bob Hope, I Owe Russia $1200 9. Heloise’s Housekeeping Hints 10. Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles Edmond Taylor, The Fall of the Dynasties Peter Farb, Face of North America: The National History of a Continent Eilene Bassing, Where’s Annie? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Jacques-Yves Cousteau with James Dugan, The Living Sea Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword Catherine Drinker Brown, Francis Bacon: the Temper of a Man Francis Bacon, Essays James Morris, The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents James A. Michener, Caravans Will and Ariel Durant, The Age of Louis XIV Rumer Godden, The Battle of the Villa Fiorita J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon Paul Gallico, Love, Let Me Not Hunger Honor Tracy, The First Day of Friday

1964



Fiction Bestsellers 1. John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 2. Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, Candy 3. Saul Bellow, Herzog 4. Leon Uris, Armageddon 5. Irving Wallace, The Man 6. Louis Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin 7. Richard E. Kim, The Martyred 8. Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice 9. Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic 10. Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, Convention Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act Saul Bellow, Herzog Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion Surgeon General’s Office, Smoking and Health Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait Gary Becker, Human Capital Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. American Heritage and United Press International, Four Days 2. Charles M. Schulz, I Need All the Friends I Can Get 3. John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition 4. John Lennon, In His Own Write 5. Charles M. Schulz, Christmas Is Together-Time 6. Jim Bishop, A Day in the Life of President Kennedy 7. Bill Adler, ed., The Kennedy Wit 8. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast 9. General Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences 10. Mark Shaw, The John F. Kennedys

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections A. L. Rowse, William Shakespeare: A Biography David Westheimer, Von Ryan’s Express Gene Smith, When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson Stanley Loomis, Paris in the Terror Storm Jameson, The Blind Heart Giovanni Guareschi, Comrade Don Camillo Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Lenin Louis Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin James Gould Cozzens, Children and Others C. P. Snow, Corridors of Power Charles Chaplin, An Autobiography Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso Rebecca West, The New Meaning of Treason

1965



Fiction Bestsellers 1. James A. Michener, The Source 2. Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase 3. Saul Bellow, Herzog 4. John Le Carr, The Looking Glass War 5. Robin Moore, The Green Berets 6. Irving Stone, Those Who Love 7. Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun 8. Arthur Hailey, Hotel 9. Morris West, The Ambassador 10. Herman Wouk, Don’t Stop the Carnival Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant The Autobiography of Malcolm X Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days Harvey Cox, The Secular City Lionel Trilling, Beyond Culture Frank Herbert, Dune Louis Althusser, For Marx Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and Colonized Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family Mancur Olson, Jr., The Logic of Collective Action Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed

Nonfiction Bestsellers 1. Dan Greenburg, How To Be a Jewish Mother 2. Ruth Montgomery, A Gift of Prophecy 3. Eric Berne, Games People Play 4. Billy Graham, World Aflame 5. Johnny Carson, Happiness Is a Dry Martini 6. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings 7. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days 8. Bill Sands, My Shadow Ran Fast 9. Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy 10. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1964

Book-of-the-Month Club Selections Stephen Becker, A Covenant with Death John Steward Carter, Full Fathom Five John Hersey, White Lotus Herman Wouk, Don