Bestsellers of Yore
Gacked from a_t_rain: What was on the NYT Bestseller list the week you were born?
Fiction:
1 FRANNY AND ZOOEY J.D. Salinger
2 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Irving Stone
3 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee
4 THE CARPETBAGGERS Harold Robbins
5 SPIRIT LAKE MacKinlay Kantor
6 LITTLE ME Patrick Dennis
7 CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED Edward Streeter
8 CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS Carson McCullers
9 THE JUDAS TREE A.J. Cronin
10 A PROLOGUE TO LOVE Taylor Caldwell
11 DAUGHTER OF SILENCE Morris L. West
12 THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT John Steinbeck
13 MILA 18 Leon Uris
14 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Sheila Burnford
15 TROPIC OF CANCER Henry Miller
16 THE WHITE RAJAH Nicholas Monsarrat
Non-Fiction:
1 THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 Theodore H. White
2 A NATION OF SHEEP William J. Lederer
3 LIVING FREE Joy Adamson
4 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH William L. Shirer
5 CITIZEN HEARST W.A. Swanberg
7 MY LIFE IN COURT Louis Nizer
8 I SHOULD HAVE KISSED HER MORE Alexander King
9 THE COMING FURY Bruce Catton
10 INSIDE EUROPE TODAY John Gunther
11 RING OF BRIGHT WATER Gavin Maxwell
12 LAROUSSE GASTRONOMIQUE Prosper Montagne
13 BUT NOT IN SHAME John Toland
14 PROMISE AT DAWN Romain Gary
15 SINCLAIR LEWIS: AN AMERICAN LIFE Mark Schorer
16 THE AGE OF REASON BEGINS Will and Ariel Durant
Hmmm... not too shabby. Some real classics, some classic junk (Kirk: You’ll find it in all the literature of the era - the complete works of Jacqueline Suzanne, the novels of Harold Robbins. Spock: Ah, the giants.), some lesser works by well-known writers, some completely forgotten.
I've only read four of them. Any guesses which four?
Fiction:
1 FRANNY AND ZOOEY J.D. Salinger
2 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Irving Stone
3 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee
4 THE CARPETBAGGERS Harold Robbins
5 SPIRIT LAKE MacKinlay Kantor
6 LITTLE ME Patrick Dennis
7 CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED Edward Streeter
8 CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS Carson McCullers
9 THE JUDAS TREE A.J. Cronin
10 A PROLOGUE TO LOVE Taylor Caldwell
11 DAUGHTER OF SILENCE Morris L. West
12 THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT John Steinbeck
13 MILA 18 Leon Uris
14 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Sheila Burnford
15 TROPIC OF CANCER Henry Miller
16 THE WHITE RAJAH Nicholas Monsarrat
Non-Fiction:
1 THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 Theodore H. White
2 A NATION OF SHEEP William J. Lederer
3 LIVING FREE Joy Adamson
4 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH William L. Shirer
5 CITIZEN HEARST W.A. Swanberg
7 MY LIFE IN COURT Louis Nizer
8 I SHOULD HAVE KISSED HER MORE Alexander King
9 THE COMING FURY Bruce Catton
10 INSIDE EUROPE TODAY John Gunther
11 RING OF BRIGHT WATER Gavin Maxwell
12 LAROUSSE GASTRONOMIQUE Prosper Montagne
13 BUT NOT IN SHAME John Toland
14 PROMISE AT DAWN Romain Gary
15 SINCLAIR LEWIS: AN AMERICAN LIFE Mark Schorer
16 THE AGE OF REASON BEGINS Will and Ariel Durant
Hmmm... not too shabby. Some real classics, some classic junk (Kirk: You’ll find it in all the literature of the era - the complete works of Jacqueline Suzanne, the novels of Harold Robbins. Spock: Ah, the giants.), some lesser works by well-known writers, some completely forgotten.
I've only read four of them. Any guesses which four?