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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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