20th Century Bestsellers

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Fiction

1. To Have and To Hold, Mary Johnston  

2. Red Pottage, Mary Cholmondeley

3. Unleavened Bread, Robert Grant

4. The Reign of Law, James Lane Allen

5. Eben Holden, Irving Bacheller

6. Janice Meredith, Paul Leicester Ford

7. The Redemption of David Corson, Charles Frederic Goss

8. Richard Carvel, Winston Churchill

9. When Knighthood Was in Flower, Charles Major

10. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson

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Fiction

1. The Crisis, Winston Churchill

2. Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson

3. The Helmet of Navarre, Bertha Runkle

4. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker

5. Eben Holden, Irving Bacheller

6. The Visits of Elizabeth, Elinor Glyn

7. The Puppet Crown, Harold MacGrath

8. Richard Yea-and-Nay, Maurice Hewlett

9. Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon

10. D'ri and I, Irving Bacheller

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Fiction

1. The Virginian, Owen Wister

2. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Alice Caldwell Hegan

3. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, Charles Major

4. The Mississippi Bubble, Emerson Hough

5. Audrey, Mary Johnston

6. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker

7. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle  

8. The Two Vanrevels, Booth Tarkington

9. The Blue Flower, Henry van Dyke

10. Sir Richard Calmady, Lucas Malet

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Fiction

1. Lady Rose's Daughter, Mary Augusta Ward

2. Gordon Keith, Thomas Nelson Page

3. The Pit, Frank Norris

4. Lovey Mary, Alice Hegan Rice

5. The Virginian, Owen Wister

6. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Alice Hegan Rice

7. The Mettle of the Pasture, James Lane Allen

8. Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, George Horace Lorimer

9. The One Woman, Thomas Dixon Jr.

10. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, John Fox Jr.

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Fiction

1. The Crossing, Winston Churchill  

2. The Deliverance, Ellen Glasgow

3. The Masquerader, anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston)

4. In the Bishop's Carriage, Miriam Michelson

5. Sir Mortimer, Mary Johnston

6. Beverly of Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon

7. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, John Fox Jr.

8. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin  

9. My Friend Prospero, Henry Harland

10. The Silent Places, Stewart Edward White

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Fiction

1. The Marriage of William Ashe, Mary Augusta Ward

2. Sandy, Alice Hegan Rice

3. The Garden of Allah, Robert Hichens

4. The Clansman, Thomas Dixon Jr.

5. Nedra, George Barr McCutcheon

6. The Gambler, Katherine Cecil Thurston

7. The Masquerader, anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston)

8. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton  

9. The Princess Passes, C. N. and A. M. Williamson

10. Rose o' the River, Kate Douglas Wiggin  

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Fiction

1. Coniston, Winston Churchill  

2. Lady Baltimore, Owen Wister

3. The Fighting Chance, Robert W. Chambers

4. The House of a Thousand Candles, Meredith Nicholson

5. Jane Cable, George Barr McCutcheon

6. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

7. The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, Margaret Deland

8. The Spoilers, Rex Beach  

9. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton  

10. The Wheel of Life, Ellen Glasgow

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Fiction

1. The Lady of the Decoration, Frances Little

2. The Weavers, Gilbert Parker

3. The Port of Missing Men, Meredith Nicholson

4. The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett

5. The Brass Bowl, Louis J. Vance

6. Satan Sanderson, Hallie Erminie Rives

7. The Daughter of Anderson Crow, George Barr McCutcheon

8. The Younger Set, Robert W. Chambers

9. The Doctor, Ralph Connor

10. Half a Rogue, Harold MacGrath

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Fiction

1. Mr. Crewe's Career, Winston Churchill

2. The Barrier, Rex Beach  

3. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, John Fox Jr.

4. The Lure of the Mask, Harold MacGrath

5. The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett

6. Peter, F. Hopkinson Smith

7. Lewis Rand, Mary Johnston

8. The Black Bag, Louis J. Vance

9. The Man from Brodney's, George Barr McCutcheon

10. The Weavers, Gilbert Parker

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Fiction

1. The Inner Shrine, anonymous (Basil King)

2. Katrine, Elinor Macartney Lane

3. The Silver Horde, Rex Beach

4. The Man in Lower Ten, Mary Roberts Rinehart  

5. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, John Fox Jr.

6. Truxton King, George Barr McCutcheon

7. 54-40 or Fight, Emerson Hough

8. The Goose Girl, Harold MacGrath

9. Peter, F. Hopkinson Smith

10. Septimus, William J. Locke

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Fiction

1. The Rosary, Florence Barclay 

2. A Modern Chronicle, Winston Churchill

3. The Wild Olive, anonymous (Basil King)

4. Max, Katherine Cecil Thurston

5. The Kingdom of Slender Swords, Hallie Erminie Rives

6. Simon the Jester, William J. Locke  

7. Lord Loveland Discovers America, C. N. and A. M. Williamson

8. The Window at the White Cat, Mary Roberts Rinehart

9. Molly Make-Believe, Eleanor Abbott

10. When a Man Marries, Mary Roberts Rinehart  

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Fiction

1. The Broad Highway, Jeffrey Farnol

2. The Prodigal Judge, Vaughan Kester

3. The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright

4. Queed, Henry Sydnor Harrison

5. The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter  

6. The Iron Woman, Margaret Deland

7. The Long Roll, Mary Johnston

8. Molly Make-Believe, Eleanor Abbott

9. The Rosary, Florence Barclay 

10. The Common Law, Robert W. Chambers

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Fiction

1. The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter  

2. The Street Called Straight, Basil King

3. Their Yesterdays, Harold Bell Wright

4. The Melting of Molly, Maria Thompson Daviess

5. A Hoosier Chronicle, Meredith Nicholson

6. The Winning of Barbara Worth, Harold Bell Wright

7. The Just and the Unjust, Vaughan Kester

8. The Net, Rex Beach

9. Tante, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

10. Fran, J. Breckenridge Ellis

Non Fiction

1. The Promised Land, Mary Antin

2. The Montessori Method, Maria Montessori

3. South America, James Bryce

4. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Jane Addams

5. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux

6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett

7. Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson

8. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett  

9. Woman and Labor, Olive Schreiner

10. Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine

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Fiction

1. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill

2. V. V.'s Eyes, Henry Sydnor Harrison

3. Laddie, Gene Stratton Porter  

4. The Judgment House, Sir Gilbert Parker

5. Heart of the Hills, John Fox Jr.

6. The Amateur Gentleman, Jeffrey Farnol

7. The Woman Thou Gavest Me, Hall Caine

8. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter  

9. The Valiants of Virginia, Hallie Erminie Rives

10. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett  

Non Fiction

1. Crowds, Gerald Stanley Lee

2. Germany and the Germans, Price Collier

3. Zone Policeman 88, Harry A. Franck

4. The New Freedom, Woodrow Wilson

5. South America, James Bryce

6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett

7. The Promised Land, Mary Antin

8. Auction Bridge To-Day, Milton C. Work

9. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux

10. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, Hugo Munsterberg

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Fiction

1. The Eyes of the World, Harold Bell Wright

2. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter  

3. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill

4. The Salamander, Owen Johnson

5. The Fortunate Youth, William J. Locke 

6. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett  

7. Penrod, Booth Tarkington  

8. Diane of the Green Van, Leona Dalrymple

9. The Devil's Garden, W. B. Maxwell

10. The Prince of Graustark, George Barr McCutcheon

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Fiction

1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 

2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill  

3. Michael O'Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter

4. Pollyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter

5. K, Mary Roberts Rinehart

6. Jaffery, William J. Locke

7. Felix O'Day, F. Hopkinson Smith

8. The Harbor, Ernest Poole

9. The Lone Star Ranger, Zane Grey  

10. Angela's Business, Henry Sydnor Harrison

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Fiction

1. Seventeen, Booth Tarkington 

2. When a Man's a Man, Harold Bell Wright

3. Just David, Eleanor H. Porter  

4. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells

5. Life and Gabriella, Ellen Glasgow

6. The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster

7. Bars of Iron, Ethel M. Dell

8. Nan of Music Mountain, Frank H. Spearman

9. Dear Enemy, Jean Webster  

10. The Heart of Rachael, Kathleen Norris

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Fiction

1. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells

2. The Light in the Clearing, Irving Bacheller

3. The Red Planet, William J. Locke  

4. The Road to Understanding, Eleanor H. Porter

5. Wildfire, Zane Grey 

6. Christine, Alice Cholmondeley

7. In the Wilderness, Robert S. Hichens

8. His Family, Ernest Poole

9. The Definite Object, Jeffrey Farnol

10. The Hundredth Chance, Ethel M. Dell

General Non Fiction

1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service

2. The Plattsburg Manual, O. O. Ellis and E. B. Garey

3. Raymond, Sir Oliver Lodge

4. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger

5. God the Invisible King, H. G. Wells  

6. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks

7. Better Meals for Less Money, Mary Green

War-Books

1. The First Hundred Thousand, Ian Hay

2. My Home in the Field of Honor, Frances W. Huard

3. A Student in Arms, Donald Hankey

4. Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey

5. Carry On, Coningsby Dawson

6. Getting Together, Ian Hay

7. My Second Year of the War, Frederick Palmer

8. The Land of Deepening Shadow, D. Thomas Curtin

9. Italy, France and Britain at War, H. G. Wells

10. The Worn Doorstep, Margaret Sherwood

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Fiction

1. The U. P. Trail, Zane Grey

2. The Tree of Heaven, May Sinclair

3. The Amazing Interlude, Mary Roberts Rinehart  

4. Dere Mable, Edward Streeter

5. Oh, Money! Money!, Eleanor H. Porter

6. Greatheart, Ethel M. Dell

7. The Major, Ralph Connor  

8. The Pawns Count, E. Phillips Oppenheim  

9. A Daughter of the Land, Gene Stratton Porter  

10. Sonia, Stephen McKenna

General Non Fiction

1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Robert W. Service

2. Treasury of War Poetry, G. H. Clark

3. With the Colors, Everard J. Appleton

4. Recollections, Viscount Morley

5. Laugh and Live, Douglas Fairbanks

6. Mark Twain's Letters, Albert Bigelow Paine, editor

7. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, Richard Harding Davis

8. Over Here, Edgar Guest

9. Diplomatic Days, Edith O'Shaughnessy

10. Poems of Alan Seeger, Alan Seeger

War-Books

1. My Four Years in Germany, James W. Gerard

2. The Glory of the Trenches, Coningsby Dawson

3. Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey

4. A Minstrel in France, Harry Lauder

5. Private Peat, Harold R. Peat

6. Outwitting the Hun, Lieut. Pat O'Brien

7. Face to Face with Kaiserism, James W. Gerard

8. Carry On, Coningsby Dawson

9. Out to Win, Coningsby Dawson

10. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse

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Fiction

1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, V. Blasco Ibañez  

2. The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad  

3. The Desert of Wheat, Zane Grey

4. Dangerous Days, Mary Roberts Rinehart 

5. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land, Ralph Connor  

6. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright

7. Dawn, Gene Stratton Porter

8. The Tin Soldier, Temple Bailey

9. Christopher and Columbus, "Elizabeth"

10. In Secret, Robert W. Chambers

Non Fiction

1. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams

2. The Years Between, Rudyard Kipling

3. Belgium, Brand Whitlock

4. The Seven Purposes, Margaret Cameron

5. In Flanders Fields, John McCrae

6. Bolshevism, John Spargo

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Fiction

1. The Man of the Forest, Zane Grey  

2. Kindred of the Dust, Peter B. Kyne

3. The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, Harold Bell Wright

4. The River's End, James Oliver Curwood

5. A Man for the Ages, Irving Bacheller

6. Mary-Marie, Eleanor H. Porter  

7. The Portygee, Joseph C. Lincoln

8. The Great Impersonation, E. Phillips Oppenheim

9. The Lamp in the Desert, Ethel M. Dell

10. Harriet and the Piper, Kathleen Norris

Non Fiction

1. Now It Can Be Told, Philip Gibbs

2. The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John M. Keynes

3. Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, Joseph B. Bishop, editor

4. Theodore Roosevelt, William Roscoe Thayer

5. White Shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien

6. An American Idyll, Cornelia Stratton Parker

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Fiction

1. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis  

2. The Brimming Cup, Dorothy Canfield

3. The Mysterious Rider, Zane Grey

4. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton  

5. The Valley of Silent Men, James Oliver Curwood

6. The Sheik, Edith M. Hull

7. A Poor Wise Man, Mary Roberts Rinehart

8. Her Father's Daughter, Gene Stratton Porter  

9. The Sisters-in-Law, Gertrude Atherton

10. The Kingdom Round the Corner, Coningsby Dawson

Non Fiction

1. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

2. White Shadows in the South Seas, Frederick O'Brien

3. The Mirrors of Downing Street, A Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym for Harold Begbie)

4. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, Margot Asquith

6. Peace Negotiations, Robert Lansing

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Fiction

1. If Winter Comes, A.S.M. Hutchinson

2. The Sheik, Edith M. Hull

3. Gentle Julia, Booth Tarkington

4. The Head of the House of Coombe, Frances Hodgson Burnett

5. Simon Called Peter, Robert Keable

6. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart  

7. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson

8. Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon

9. To the Last Man, Zane Grey  

10. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis (tie)  

10. Helen of the Old House, Harold Bell Wright (tie)

Non Fiction

1. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

2. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

3. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok

4. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

5. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson

6. The Outline of Science, J. Arthur Thomson

7. Outwitting Our Nerves, Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

8. Queen Victoria, Lytton Strachey

9. Mirrors of Washington, anonymous (Clinton W. Gilbert)

10. Painted Windows, A Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym for Harold Begbie)

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Fiction

1. Black Oxen, Gertrude Atherton

2. His Children's Children, Arthur Train

3. The Enchanted April, "Elizabeth"

4. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis  

5. The Dim Lantern, Temple Bailey

6. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson

7. The Mine with the Iron Door, Harold Bell Wright

8. The Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey

9. The Sea-Hawk, Rafael Sabatini  

10. The Breaking Point, Mary Roberts Rinehart  

Non Fiction

1. Etiquette, Emily Post

2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini

3. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick, editor

4. The Mind in the Making, James Harvey Robinson

5. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

6. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

7. Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-Suggestion, Emile Coué

8. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok

9. The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

10. A Man from Maine, Edward Bok

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Fiction

1. So Big, Edna Ferber

2. The Plastic Age, Percy Marks

3. The Little French Girl, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

4. The Heirs Apparent, Philip Gibbs

5. A Gentleman of Courage, James Oliver Curwood

6. The Call of the Canyon, Zane Grey

7. The Midlander, Booth Tarkington

8. The Coast of Folly, Coningsby Dawson

9. Mistress Wilding, Rafael Sabatini

10. The Homemaker, Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Non Fiction

1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

2. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini

3. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, Fannie Farmer, editor

4. Etiquette, Emily Post

5. Ariel, André Maurois

6. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al.

7. Mark Twain's Autobiography, Mark Twain

8. Saint Joan, Bernard Shaw

9. The New Decalogue of Science, Albert E. Wiggam

10. The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok

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Fiction

1. Soundings, A. Hamilton Gibbs

2. The Constant Nymph, Margaret Kennedy

3. The Keeper of the Bees, Gene Stratton Porter

4. Glorious Apollo, E. Barrington

5. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen

6. The Little French Girl, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

7. Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis  

8. The Perennial Bachelor, Anne Parrish

9. The Carolinian, Rafael Sabatini

10. One Increasing Purpose, A.S.M. Hutchinson

Non Fiction

1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

2. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor

3. When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne

4. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton

5. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini

6. Ariel, André Maurois

7. Twice Thirty, Edward Bok

8. Twenty-Five Years, Lord Grey

9. Anatole France Himself, J. J. Brousson

10. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al.

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Fiction

1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy, John Erskine

2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos

3. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping

4. The Hounds of Spring, Sylvia Thompson

5. Beau Sabreur, P. C. Wren

6. The Silver Spoon, John Galsworthy

7. Beau Geste, P. C. Wren

8. Show Boat, Edna Ferber

9. After Noon, Susan Ertz

10. The Blue Window, Temple Bailey

Non Fiction

1. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton

2. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey

3. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters

4. Our Times, Vol. I, Mark Sullivan

5. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor

6. Auction Bridge Complete, Milton C. Work

7. The Book Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton

8. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

9. The Light of Faith, Edgar A. Guest

10. Jefferson and Hamilton, Claude G. Bowers

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Fiction

1. Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis

2. The Plutocrat, Booth Tarkington

3. Doomsday, Warwick Deeping

4. Sorrell and Son, Warwick Deeping

5. Jalna, Mazo de la Roche

6. Lost Ecstasy, Mary Roberts Rinehart

7. Twilight Sleep, Edith Wharton

8. Tomorrow Morning, Anne Parrish

9. The Old Countess, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

10. A Good Woman, Louis Bromfield

Non Fiction

1. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

2. Napoleon, Emil Ludwig

3. Revolt in the Desert, T. E. Lawrence

4. Trader Horn, Vol. I, Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis

5. We, Charles A. Lindbergh

6. Ask Me Another, Julian Spafford and Lucien Esty

7. The Royal Road to Romance, Richard Halliburton

8. The Glorious Adventure, Richard Halliburton

9. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George A. Dorsey

10. Mother India, Katherine Mayo

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Fiction

1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder  

2. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole

3. Swan Song, John Galsworthy

4. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine  

5. Bad Girl, Viña Delmar

6. Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington

7. Old Pybus, Warwick Deeping

8. All Kneeling, Anne Parrish

9. Jalna, Mazo de la Roche

10. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Louis Bromfield

Non Fiction

1. Disraeli, André Maurois

2. Mother India, Katherine Mayo

3. Trader Horn, Vol. I, Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis

4. Napoleon, Emil Ludwig

5. Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill

6. We, Charles A. Lindbergh

7. Count Luckner, the Sea Devil, Lowell Thomas

8. Goethe, Emil Ludwig

9. Skyward, Richard E. Byrd

10. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, George Bernard Shaw

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Fiction

1. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

2. Dodsworth, Sinclair Lewis

3. Dark Hester, Anne Douglas Sedgwick

4. The Bishop Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine  

5. Roper's Row, Warwick Deeping

6. Peder Victorious, O. E. Rölvaag

7. Mamba's Daughters, DuBose Heyward

8. The Galaxy, Susan Ertz

9. Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin

10. Joseph and His Brethren, H. W. Freeman

Non Fiction

1. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet

2. Henry the Eighth, Francis Hackett

3. The Cradle of the Deep, Joan Lowell

4. Elizabeth and Essex, Lytton Strachey

5. The Specialist, Chic Sale

6. A Preface to Morals, Walter Lippmann

7. Believe It or Not, Robert L. Ripley

8. John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benét

9. The Tragic Era, Claude G. Bowers

10. The Mansions of Philosophy, Will Durant

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Fiction

1. Cimarron, Edna Ferber

2. Exile, Warwick Deeping

3. The Woman of Andros, Thornton Wilder

4. Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes

5. Angel Pavement, J. B. Priestley

6. The Door, Mary Roberts Rinehart

7. Rogue Herries, Hugh Walpole

8. Chances, A. Hamilton Gibbs

9. Young Man of Manhattan, Katharine Brush

10. Twenty-Four Hours, Louis Bromfield

Non Fiction

1. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe

2. The Strange Death of President Harding, Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker

3. Byron, André Maurois

4. The Adams Family, James Truslow Adams

5. Lone Cowboy, Will James

6. Lincoln, Emil Ludwig

7. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

8. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells

9. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet

10. The Rise of American Civilization, Charles and Mary Beard

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Fiction

1. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

2. Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather

3. A White Bird Flying, Bess Streeter Aldrich

4. Grand Hotel, Vicki Baum

5. Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes

6. The Road Back, Erich Maria Remarque

7. The Bridge of Desire, Warwick Deeping

8. Back Street, Fannie Hurst

9. Finch's Fortune, Mazo de la Roche

10. Maid in Waiting, John Galsworthy

Non Fiction

1. Education of a Princess, Grand Duchess Marie

2. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe

3. Washington Merry-Go-Round, anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

4. Boners: Being a Collection of Schoolboy Wisdom, or Knowledge as It Is Sometimes Written, compiled by Alexander Abingdon; illustrated by Dr. Seuss

5. Culbertson's Summary, Ely Culbertson

6. Contract Bridge Blue Book, Ely Culbertson

7. Fatal Interview, Edna St. Vincent Millay

8. The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams

9. Mexico, Stuart Chase

10. New Russia's Primer, Mikhail Ilin

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Fiction

1. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

2. The Fountain, Charles Morgan

3. Sons, Pearl S. Buck

4. Magnolia Street, Louis Golding

5. The Sheltered Life, Ellen Glasgow

6. Old Wine and New, Warwick Deeping

7. Mary's Neck, Booth Tarkington

8. Magnificent Obsession, Lloyd C. Douglas

9. Inheritance, Phyllis Bentley

10. Three Loves, A. J. Cronin

Non Fiction

1. The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams

2. Only Yesterday, Frederick Lewis Allen

3. A Fortune to Share, Vash Young

4. Culbertson's Summary, Ely Culbertson

5. Van Loon's Geography, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

6. What We Live By, Ernest Dimnet

7. The March of Democracy, James Truslow Adams

8. Washington Merry-Go-Round, anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

9. The Story of My Life, Clarence Darrow

10. More Merry-Go-Round, anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen)

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Fiction

1. Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen

2. As the Earth Turns, Gladys Hasty Carroll

3. Ann Vickers, Sinclair Lewis

4. Magnificent Obsession, Lloyd C. Douglas

5. One More River, John Galsworthy

6. Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Lloyd C. Douglas

7. The Master of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche

8. Miss Bishop, Bess Streeter Aldrich

9. The Farm, Louis Bromfield

10. Little Man, What Now?, Hans Fallada

Non Fiction

1. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin

2. Marie Antoinette, Stefan Zweig

3. British Agent, R. H. Bruce Lockhart

4. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink

5. The House of Exile, Nora Waln

6. Van Loon's Geography, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

7. Looking Forward, Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933, Ely Culbertson

9. The Arches of the Years, Halliday Sutherland

10. The March of Democracy, Vol. II, James Truslow Adams

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Fiction

1. Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen

2. Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller

3. So Red the Rose, Stark Young

4. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton

5. Within This Present, Margaret Ayer Barnes

6. Work of Art, Sinclair Lewis

7. Private Worlds, Phyllis Bottome

8. Mary Peters, Mary Ellen Chase

9. Oil for the Lamps of China, Alice Tisdale Hobart

10. Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen

Non Fiction

1. While Rome Burns, Alexander Woollcott

2. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin

3. Nijinsky, Romola Nijinsky

4. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink

5. The Native's Return, Louis Adamic

6. Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer

7. Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming

8. Forty-two Years in the White House, Ike Hoover

9. You Must Relax, Edmund Jacobson

10. The Life of Our Lord, Charles Dickens

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Fiction

1. Green Light, Lloyd C. Douglas

2. Vein of Iron, Ellen Glasgow

3. Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe

4. Time Out of Mind, Rachel Field

5. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton

6. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel

7. Heaven's My Destination, Thornton Wilder

8. Lost Horizon, James Hilton

9. Come and Get It, Edna Ferber

10. Europa, Robert Briffault

Non Fiction

1. North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2. While Rome Burns, Alexander Woollcott

3. Life with Father, Clarence Day

4. Personal History, Vincent Sheean

5. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence

6. Francis the First, Francis Hackett

7. Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Stefan Zweig

8. Rats, Lice and History, Hans Zinsser

9. R. E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman

10. Skin Deep, M. C. Phillips

1 9 3 6

Fiction

1. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell  

2. The Last Puritan, George Santayana

3. Sparkenbroke, Charles Morgan

4. Drums Along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds

5. It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis

6. White Banners, Lloyd C. Douglas

7. The Hurricane, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

8. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West

9. The Doctor, Mary Roberts Rinehart

10. Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley

Non Fiction

1. Man the Unknown, Alexis Carrel

2. Wake Up and Live!, Dorothea Brande

3. The Way of a Transgressor, Negley Farson

4. Around the World in Eleven Years, Patience, Richard, and Johnny Abbe

5. North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

6. An American Doctor's Odyssey, Victor Heiser

7. Inside Europe, John Gunther

8. Live Alone and Like It, Marjorie Hillis

9. Life with Father, Clarence Day

10. I Write As I Please, Walter Duranty

1 9 3 7

Fiction

1. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell  

2. Northwest Passage, Kenneth Roberts

3. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin

4. And So-Victoria, Vaughan Wilkins

5. Drums Along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds

6. The Years, Virginia Woolf

7. Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham

8. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck  

9. The Rains Came, Louis Bromfield

10. We Are Not Alone, James Hilton

Non Fiction

1. How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

2. An American Doctor's Odyssey, Victor Heiser

3. The Return to Religion, Henry C. Link

4. The Arts, Hendrik Willem Van Loon

5. Orchids on Your Budget, Marjorie Hillis

6. Present Indicative, Noel Coward

7. Mathematics for the Million, Lancelot Hogben

8. Life with Mother, Clarence Day

9. The Nile, Emil Ludwig

10. The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks

1 9 3 8

Fiction

1. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin

3. My Son, My Son!, Howard Spring

4. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

5. Northwest Passage, Kenneth Roberts

6. All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field

7. The Rains Came, Louis Bromfield

8. And Tell of Time, Laura Krey

9. The Mortal Storm, Phyllis Bottome

10. Action at Aquila, Hervey Allen

Non Fiction

1. The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang

2. With Malice Toward Some, Margaret Halsey

3. Madame Curie, Eve Curie

4. Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

5. The Horse and Buggy Doctor, Arthur E. Hertzler

6. How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

7. Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren

8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Ogden Nash

9. Alone, Richard E. Byrd

10. Fanny Kemble, Margaret Armstrong

1 9 3 9

Fiction

1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck  

2. All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field

3. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

4. Wickford Point, John P. Marquand

5. Escape, Ethel Vance

6. Disputed Passage, Lloyd C. Douglas

7. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

8. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page

9. The Nazarene, Sholem Asch

10. Kitty Foyle, Christopher Morley

Non Fiction

1. Days of Our Years, Pierre van Paassen

2. Reaching for the Stars, Nora Waln

3. Inside Asia, John Gunther

4. Autobiography with Letters, William Lyon Phelps

5. Country Lawyer, Bellamy Partridge

6. Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de St. Exupéry

7. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler

8. A Peculiar Treasure, Edna Ferber

9. Not Peace but a Sword, Vincent Sheean

10. Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

1 9 4 0

Fiction

1. How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn

2. Kitty Foyle, Christopher Morley

3. Mrs. Miniver, Jan Struther

4. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway  

5. The Nazarene, Sholem Asch

6. Stars on the Sea, F. van Wyck Mason

7. Oliver Wiswell, Kenneth Roberts

8. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck  

9. Night in Bombay, Louis Bromfield

10. The Family, Nina Fedorova

Non Fiction

1. I Married Adventure, Osa Johnson

2. How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler

3. A Smattering of Ignorance, Oscar Levant

4. Country Squire in the White House, John T. Flynn

5. Land Below the Wind, Agnes Newton Keith

6. American White Paper, Joseph W. Alsop Jr. and Robert Kintnor

7. New England: Indian Summer, Van Wyck Brooks

8. As I Remember Him, Hans Zinsser

9. Days of Our Years, Pierre van Paassen

10. Bet It's a Boy, Betty B. Blunt

1 9 4 1

Fiction

1. The Keys of the Kingdom, A. J. Cronin

2. Random Harvest, James Hilton

3. This Above All, Eric Knight

4. The Sun Is My Undoing, Marguerite Steen

5. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway  

6. Oliver Wiswell, Kenneth Roberts

7. H. M. Pulham, Esquire, John P. Marquand

8. Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, Isabel Scott Rorick

9. Saratoga Trunk, Edna Ferber

10. Windswept, Mary Ellen Chase

Non Fiction

1. Berlin Diary, William L. Shirer

2. The White Cliffs, Alice Duer Miller

3. Out of the Night, Jan Valtin

4. Inside Latin America, John Gunther

5. Blood, Sweat and Tears, Winston S. Churchill

6. You Can't Do Business with Hitler, Douglas Miller

7. Reading I've Liked, Clifton Fadiman, editor

8. Reveille in Washington, Margaret Leech

9. Exit Laughing, Irvin S. Cobb

10. My Sister and I, Dirk van der Heide

1 9 4 2

Fiction

1. The Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel

2. The Moon Is Down, John Steinbeck  

3. Dragon Seed, Pearl S. Buck

4. And Now Tomorrow, Rachel Field

5. Drivin' Woman, Elizabeth Pickett

6. Windswept, Mary Ellen Chase

7. The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

8. The Sun Is My Undoing, Marguerite Steen

9. Kings Row, Henry Bellamann

10. The Keys of the Kingdom, A. J. Cronin

Non Fiction

1. See Here, Private Hargrove, Marion Hargrove

2. Mission to Moscow, Joseph E. Davies

3. The Last Time I Saw Paris, Elliot Paul

4. Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

5. Victory Through Air Power, Major Alexander P. de Seversky

6. Past Imperfect, Ilka Chase

7. They Were Expendable, W. L. White

8. Flight to Arras, Antoine de St. Exupéry

9. Washington Is Like That, W. M. Kiplinger

10. Inside Latin America, John Gunther

1 9 4 3

Fiction

1. The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

2. The Valley of Decision, Marcia Davenport

3. So Little Time, John P. Marquand

4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

5. The Human Comedy, William Saroyan

6. Mrs. Parkington, Louis Bromfield

7. The Apostle, Sholem Asch

8. Hungry Hill, Daphne du Maurier

9. The Forest and the Fort, Hervey Allen

10. The Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel

Non Fiction

1. Under Cover, John Roy Carlson

2. One World, Wendell L. Willkie

3. Journey Among Warriors, Eve Curie

4. On Being a Real Person, Harry Emerson Fosdick

5. Guadalcanal Diary, Richard Tregaskis

6. Burma Surgeon, Lt. Col. Gordon Seagrave

7. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough

8. U. S. Foreign Policy, Walter Lippmann

9. Here Is Your War, Ernie Pyle

10. See Here, Private Hargrove, Marion Hargrove

1 9 4 4

Fiction

1. Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith

2. The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

4. Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor

5. The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham

6. The Green Years, A. J. Cronin

7. Leave Her to Heaven, Ben Ames Williams

8. Green Dolphin Street, Elizabeth Goudge

9. A Bell for Adano, John Hersey

10. The Apostle, Sholem Asch

Non Fiction

1. I Never Left Home, Bob Hope

2. Brave Men, Ernie Pyle

3. Good Night, Sweet Prince, Gene Fowler

4. Under Cover, John Roy Carlson

5. Yankee from Olympus, Catherine Drinker Bowen

6. The Time for Decision, Sumner Welles

7. Here Is Your War, Ernie Pyle

8. Anna and the King of Siam, Margaret Landon

9. The Curtain Rises, Quentin Reynolds

10. Ten Years in Japan, Joseph C. Grew

1 9 4 5

Fiction

1. Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor

2. The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

3. The Black Rose, Thomas B. Costain

4. The White Tower, James Ramsey Ullman

5. Cass Timberlane, Sinclair Lewis  

6. A Lion Is in the Streets, Adria Locke Langley

7. So Well Remembered, James Hilton

8. Captain from Castile, Samuel Shellabarger

9. Earth and High Heaven, Adria Locke Langley

10. Immortal Wife, Irving Stone

Non Fiction

1. Brave Men, Ernie Pyle

2. Dear Sir, Juliet Lowell

3. Up Front, Bill Mauldin

4. Black Boy, Richard Wright

5. Try and Stop Me, Bennett Cerf

6. Anything Can Happen, George and Helen Papashvily

7. General Marshall's Report, U.S. War Department General Staff

8. The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald

9. The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber

10. Pleasant Valley, Louis Bromfield

1 9 4 6

Fiction

1. The King's General, Daphne du Maurier

2. This Side of Innocence, Taylor Caldwell

3. The River Road, Frances Parkinson Keyes

4. The Miracle of the Bells, Russell Janney

5. The Hucksters, Frederic Wakeman

6. The Foxes of Harrow, Frank Yerby

7. Arch of Triumph, Erich Maria Remarque

8. The Black Rose, Thomas B. Costain

9. B. F.'s Daughter, John P. Marquand

10. The Snake Pit, Mary Jane Ward

Non Fiction

1. The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald

2. Peace of Mind, Joshua L. Liebman

3. As He Saw It, Elliott Roosevelt

4. The Roosevelt I Knew, Frances Perkins

5. Last Chapter, Ernie Pyle

6. Starling of the White House, Thomas Sugrue and Col. Edmund Starling

7. I Chose Freedom, Victor Kravchenko

8. The Anatomy of Peace, Emery Reves

9. Top Secret, Ralph Ingersoll

10. A Solo in Tom-Toms, Gene Fowler

1 9 4 7

Fiction

1. The Miracle of the Bells, Russell Janney

2. The Moneyman, Thomas B. Costain

3. Gentleman's Agreement, Laura Z. Hobson

4. Lydia Bailey, Kenneth Roberts

5. The Vixens, Frank Yerby

6. The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck

7. House Divided, Ben Ames Williams

8. Kingsblood Royal, Sinclair Lewis  

9. East Side, West Side, Marcia Davenport

10. Prince of Foxes, Samuel Shellabarger

Non Fiction

1. Peace of Mind, Joshua L. Liebman

2. Information Please Almanac, 1947, John Kieran, editor

3. Inside U.S.A., John Gunther

4. A Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee

5. Speaking Frankly, James F. Byrnes

6. Human Destiny, Pierre Lecomte du Noüy

7. The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald

8. The American Past, Roger Butterfield

9. The Fireside Book of Folk Songs, Margaret B. Boni, editor

10. Together, Katharine T. Marshall

1 9 4 8

Fiction

1. The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas

2. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer

3. Dinner at Antoine's, Frances Parkinson Keyes

4. The Bishop's Mantle, Agnes Sligh Turnbull

5. Tomorrow Will Be Better, Betty Smith

6. The Golden Hawk, Frank Yerby

7. Raintree County, Ross Lockridge Jr.

8. Shannon's Way, A. J. Cronin

9. Pilgrim's Inn, Elizabeth Goudge

10. The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw

Non Fiction

1. Crusade in Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower

2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie

3. Peace of Mind, Joshua L. Liebman

4. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, A. C. Kinsey, et al.

5. Wine, Women and Words, Billy Rose

6. The Life and Times of the Shmoo, Al Capp

7. The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill

8. Roosevelt and Hopkins, Robert E. Sherwood

9. A Guide to Confident Living, Norman Vincent Peale

10. The Plague and I, Betty MacDonald

1 9 4 9

Fiction

1. The Egyptian, Mika Waltari  

2. The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas

3. Mary, Sholem Asch

4. A Rage to Live, John O'Hara

5. Point of No Return, John P. Marquand

6. Dinner at Antoine's, Frances Parkinson Keyes

7. High Towers, Thomas B. Costain

8. Cutlass Empire, Van Wyck Mason

9. Pride's Castle, Frank Yerby

10. Father of the Bride, Edward Streeter

Non Fiction

1. White Collar Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr.

2. How to Win at Canasta, Oswald Jacoby

3. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

4. Home Sweet Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr.

5. Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

6. The Greatest Story Ever Told, Fulton Oursler

7. Canasta, the Argentine Rummy Game, Ottilie H. Reilly

8. Canasta, Josephine Artayeta de Viel and Ralph Michael

9. Peace of Soul, Fulton J. Sheen

10. A Guide to Confident Living, Norman Vincent Peale

1 9 5 0

Fiction

1. The Cardinal, Henry Morton Robinson

2. Joy Street, Frances Parkinson Keyes

3. Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway  

4. The Wall, John Hersey

5. Star Money, Kathleen Winsor

6. The Parasites, Daphne du Maurier

7. Floodtide, Frank Yerby

8. Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow

9. The Adventurer, Mika Waltari

10. The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg

Non Fiction

1. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

2. The Baby

3. Look Younger, Live Longer, Gayelord Hauser

4. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, Frank Bettger

5. Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

6. Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, Peter Marshall

7. Your Dream Home, Hubbard Cobb

8. The Mature Mind, H. A. Overstreet

9. Campus Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr.

10. Belles on Their Toes, Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

1 9 5 1

Fiction

1. From Here to Eternity, James Jones

2. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk  

3. Moses, Sholem Asch

4. The Cardinal, Henry Morton Robinson

5. A Woman Called Fancy, Frank Yerby

6. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat

7. Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., John P. Marquand

8. Return to Paradise, James A. Michener

9. The Foundling, Cardinal Spellman

10. The Wanderer, Mika Waltari

Non Fiction

1. Look Younger, Live Longer, Gayelord Hauser

2. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

3. Washington Confidential, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

4. Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book

5. Better Homes and Gardens Handyman's Book

6. The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson

7. Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary, Clarence L. Barnhart, editor

8. Pogo, Walt Kelly

9. Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

10. The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album

1 9 5 2

Fiction

1. The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain

2. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk  

3. East of Eden, John Steinbeck

4. My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

5. Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes

6. Giant, Edna Ferber

7. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway  

8. The Gown of Glory, Agnes Sligh Turnbull

9. The Saracen Blade, Frank Yerby

10. The Houses in Between, Howard Spring

Non Fiction

1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version

2. A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall

3. U.S.A. Confidential, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

4. The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson

5. Tallulah, Tallulah Bankhead

6. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

7. This I Believe, Edward P. Morgan, editor; Edward R. Murrow, foreword

8. This Is Ike, Wilson Hicks, editor

9. Witness, Whittaker Chambers

10. Mr. President, William Hillman

1 9 5 3

Fiction

1. The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

2. The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain

3. Désirée, Annemarie Selinko

4. Battle Cry, Leon M. Uris

5. From Here to Eternity, James Jones

6. The High and the Mighty, Ernest K. Gann

7. Beyond This Place, A. J. Cronin

8. Time and Time Again, James Hilton

9. Lord Vanity, Samuel Shellabarger

10. The Unconquered, Ben Ames Williams

Non Fiction

1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version

2. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

3. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Alfred C. Kinsey, et al.

4. Angel Unaware, Dale Evans Rogers

5. Life Is Worth Living, Fulton J. Sheen

6. A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall

7. This I Believe, Edward P. Morgan, editor; Edward R. Murrow, foreword

8. The Greatest Faith Ever Known, Fulton Oursler and G.A.O. Armstrong

9. How to Play Your Best Golf, Tommy Armour

10. A House Is Not a Home, Polly Adler

1 9 5 4

Fiction

1. Not as a Stranger, Morton Thompson

2. Mary Anne, Daphne du Maurier

3. Love Is Eternal, Irving Stone

4. The Royal Box, Frances Parkinson Keyes

5. The Egyptian, Mika Waltari  

6. No Time for Sergeants, Mac Hyman

7. Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck

8. The View from Pompey's Head, Hamilton Basso

9. Never Victorious, Never Defeated, Taylor Caldwell

10. Benton's Row, Frank Yerby

Non Fiction

1. The HoIy Bible: Revised Standard Version

2. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

3. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

4. Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cook Book

5. The Tumult and the Shouting, Grantland Rice

6. I'll Cry Tomorrow, Lillian Roth, Gerold Frank, and Mike Connolly

7. The Prayers of Peter Marshall, Catherine Marshall, editor

8. This I Believe, 2, Raymond Swing, editor

9. But We Were Born Free, Elmer Davis

10. The Saturday Evening Post Treasury, Roger Butterfield, editor

1 9 5 5

Fiction

1. Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk

2. Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis  

3. Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor

4. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan

5. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson

6. Something of Value, Robert Ruark

7. Not As a Stranger, Morton Thompson

8. No Time for Sergeants, Mac Hyman

9. The Tontine, Thomas B. Costain

10. Ten North Frederick, John O'Hara

Non Fiction

1. Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

3. The Family of Man, Edward Steichen

4. A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall

5. How to Live 365 Days a Year, John A. Schindler

6. Better Homes and Gardens Diet Book

7. The Secret of Happiness, Billy Graham

8. Why Johnny Can't Read, Rudolf Flesch

9. Inside Africa, John Gunther

10. Year of Decisions, Harry S Truman

1 9 5 6

Fiction

1. Don't Go Near the Water, William Brinkley

2. The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor

3. Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

4. Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis  

5. Eloise, Kay Thompson

6. Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor

7. A Certain Smile, Françoise Sagan

8. The Tribe That Lost Its Head, Nicholas Monsarrat

9. The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir

10. Boon Island, Kenneth Roberts

Non Fiction

1. Arthritis and Common Sense, rev. ed., Dan Dale Alexander

2. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, concise ed., David B. Guralnik

3. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 2nd. ed.

4. Etiquette, Frances Benton

5. Better Homes and Gardens Barbecue Book

6. The Search for Bridey Murphy, Morey Bernstein

7. Love or Perish, Smiley Blanton, M.D.

8. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book

9. How To Live 365 Days a Year, John A. Schindler

10. The Nun's Story, Kathryn Hulme

1 9 5 7

Fiction

1. By Love Possessed, James Gould Cozzens

2. Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

3. Compulsion, Meyer Levin

4. Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Max Shulman

5. Blue Camellia, Frances Parkinson Keyes

6. Eloise in Paris, Kay Thompson

7. The Scapegoat, Daphne du Maurier

8. On the Beach, Nevil Shute  

9. Below the Salt, Thomas B. Costain

10. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand  

Non Fiction

1. Kids Say the Darndest Things!, Art Linkletter

2. The FBI Story, Don Whitehead

3. Stay Alive All Your Life, Norman Vincent Peale

4. To Live Again, Catherine Marshall

5. Better Homes and Gardens Flower Arranging

6. Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing, Robert Paul Smith

7. Baruch: My Own Story, Bernard M. Baruch

8. Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr

9. The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places

10. The Day Christ Died, Jim Bishop

1 9 5 8

Fiction

1. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak  

2. Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver

3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov  

4. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis

5. From the Terrace, John O'Hara

6. Eloise at Christmastime, Kay Thompson

7. Ice Palace, Edna Ferber

8. The Winthrop Woman, Anya Seton

9. The Enemy Camp, Jerome Weidman

10. Victorine, Frances Parkinson Keyes

Non Fiction

1. Kids Say the Darndest Things!, Art Linkletter

2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Pat Boone

3. Only in America, Harry Golden

4. Masters of Deceit, Edgar Hoover

5. Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr

6. Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book

7. The New Testament in Modern English, J. P. Phillips, trans.

8. Aku-Aku, Thor Heyerdahl

9. Dear Abby, Abigail Van Buren

10. Inside Russia Today, John Gunther

1 9 5 9

Fiction

1. Exodus, Leon Uris

2. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak  

3. Hawaii, James Michener  

4. Advise and Consent, Allen Drury

5. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence  

6. The Ugly American, William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick

7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Taylor Caldwell

8. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov  

9. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico

10. Poor No More, Robert Ruark

Non Fiction

1. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Pat Boone

2. Folk Medicine, D. C. Jarvis

3. For 2¢ Plain, Harry Golden

4. The Status Seekers, Vance Packard

5. Act One, Moss Hart

6. Charley Weaver's Letters from Mamma, Cliff Arquette

7. The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White  

8. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook

9. Only in America, Harry Golden

10. Mine Enemy Grows Older, Alexander King

1 9 6 0

Fiction

1. Advise and Consent, Allen Drury

2. Hawaii, James A. Michener  

3. The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa

4. The Chapman Report, Irving Wallace

5. Ourselves To Know, John O'Hara

6. The Constant Image, Marcia Davenport

7. The Lovely Ambition, Mary Ellen Chase

8. The Listener, Taylor Caldwell

9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Nevil Shute  

10. Sermons and Soda-Water, John O'Hara

Non Fiction

1. Folk Medicine, D. C. Jarvis

2. Better Homes and Gardens First Aid for Your Family

3. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook

4. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, Alexander King

5. Better Homes and Gardens Dessert Book

6. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Ideas

7. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer

8. The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater

9. I Kid You Not, Jack Paar

10. Between You, Me and the Gatepost, Pat Boone

1 9 6 1

Fiction

1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone

2. Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger

3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee  

4. Mila 18, Leon Uris

5. The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins

6. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller  

7. Winnie Ille Pu, Alexander Lenard, trans.

8. Daughter of Silence, Morris West

9. The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O'Connor

10. The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

Non Fiction

1. The New English Bible: The New Testament

2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer

3. Better Homes and Gardens Sewing Book

4. Casserole Cook Book

5. A Nation of Sheep, William Lederer

6. Better Homes and Gardens Nutrition for Your Family

7. The Making of the President, 1960, Theodore H. White

8. Calories Don't Count, Dr. Herman Taller

9. Betty Crocker's New Picture Cook Book: New Edition

10. Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell

1 9 6 2

Fiction

1. Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter

2. Dearly Beloved, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3. A Shade of Difference, Allen Drury

4. Youngblood Hawke, Herman Wouk

5. Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger

6. Fail-Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

7. Seven Days in May, Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II

8. The Prize, Irving Wallace

9. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone

10. The Reivers, William Faulkner

Non Fiction

1. Calories Don't Count, Dr. Herman Taller

2. The New English Bible: The New Testament

3. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book: New Edition

4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Virginia Cary Hudson

5. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Charles M. Schulz

6. The Joy of Cooking: New Edition, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker

7. My Life in Court, Louis Nizer

8. The Rothschilds, Frederic Morton

9. Sex and the Single Girl, Helen Gurley Brown

10. Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck

1 9 6 3

Fiction

1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, Morris L. West

2. The Group, Mary McCarthy

3. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour--An Introduction, J. D. Salinger

4. Caravans, James A. Michener

5. Elizabeth Appleton, John O'Hara

6. Grandmother and the Priests, Taylor Caldwell

7. City of Night, John Rechy

8. The Glass-Blowers, Daphne du Maurier

9. The Sand Pebbles, Richard McKenna

10. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Rumer Godden

Non Fiction

1. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Charles M. Schulz

2. Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket, Charles M. Schulz

3. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Victor Lasky

4. Profiles in Courage: Inaugural Edition, John F. Kennedy

5. 0 Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Virginia Cary Hudson

6. Better Homes and Gardens Bread Cook Book

7. The Pillsbury Family Cookbook

8. I Owe Russia $1200, Bob Hope

9. Heloise's Housekeeping Hints

10. Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book

1 9 6 4

Fiction

1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré  

2. Candy, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg

3. Herzog, Saul Bellow

4. Armageddon, Leon Uris

5. The Man, Irving Wallace

6. The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss

7. The Martyred, Richard E. Kim

8. You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming

9. This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart

10. Convention, Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II

Non Fiction

1. Four Days, American Heritage and United Press International

2. I Need All the Friends I Can Get, Charles M. Schulz

3. Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition, John F. Kennedy

4. In His Own Write, John Lennon

5. Christmas Is Together-Time, Charles M. Schulz

6. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Jim Bishop

7. The Kennedy Wit, compiled by Bill Adler

8. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

9. Reminiscences, General Douglas MacArthur

10. The John F. Kennedys, Mark Shaw

1 9 6 5

Fiction

1. The Source, James A. Michener

2. Up the Down Staircase, Bel Kaufman

3. Herzog, Saul Bellow

4. The Looking Glass War, John Le Carré

5. The Green Berets, Robin Moore

6. Those Who Love, Irving Stone

7. The Man with the Golden Gun, Ian Fleming

8. Hotel, Arthur Hailey

9. The Ambassador, Morris West

10. Don't Stop the Carnival, Herman Wouk

Non Fiction

1. How To Be a Jewish Mother, Dan Greenburg

2. A Gift of Prophecy, Ruth Montgomery

3. Games People Play, Eric Berne, M.D.

4. World Aflame, Billy Graham

5. Happiness Is a Dry Martini, Johnny Carson

6. Markings, Dag Hammarskjöld

7. A Thousand Days, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

8. My Shadow Ran Fast, Bill Sands

9. Kennedy, Theodore C. Sorensen

10. The Making of the President, 1964, Theodore H. White

1 9 6 6

Fiction

1. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann

2. The Adventurers, Harold Robbins

3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Robert Crichton

4. Capable of Honor, Allen Drury

5. The Double Image, Helen MacInnes

6. The Fixer, Bernard Malamud

7. Tell No Man, Adela Rogers St. Johns

8. Tai-Pan, James Clavell  

9. The Embezzler, Louis Auchincloss

10. All in the Family, Edwin O'Connor

Non Fiction

1. How to Avoid Probate, Norman F. Dacey

2. Human Sexual Response, William Howard Masters and Virginia E. Johnston

3. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

4. Games People Play, Eric Berne, M.D.

5. A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

6. Everything but Money, Sam Levenson

7. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language

8. Rush to Judgment, Mark Lane

9. The Last Battle, Cornelius Ryan

10. Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, Phyllis Diller

1 9 6 7

Fiction

1. The Arrangement, Elia Kazan

2. The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron (tie)

2. The Chosen, Chaim Potok (tie)

4. Topaz, Leon Uris

5. Christy, Catherine Marshall  

6. The Eighth Day, Thornton Wilder

7. Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin

8. The Plot, Irving Wallace

9. The Gabriel Hounds, Mary Stewart

10. The Exhibitionist, Henry Sutton

Non Fiction

1. Death of a President, William Manchester

2. Misery Is a Blind Date, Johnny Carson

3. Games People Play, Eric Berne, M.D.

4. Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows, Rod McKuen

5. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Father James Kavanaugh

6. Everything but Money, Sam Levenson

7. Our Crowd, Stephen Birmingham

8. Edgar Cayce--The Sleeping Prophet, Jess Stearn (tie)

8. Better Homes and Gardens Favorite Ways with Chicken (tie)

8. Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual, Phyllis Diller (tie)

1 9 6 8

Fiction

1. Airport, Arthur Hailey

2. Couples, John Updike

3. The Salzburg Connection, Helen MacInnes

4. A Small Town in Germany, John Le Carré  

5. Testimony of Two Men, Taylor Caldwell

6. Preserve and Protect, Allen Drury

7. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal

8. Vanished, Fletcher Knebel

9. Christy, Catherine Marshall  

10. The Tower of Babel, Morris L. West

Non Fiction

1. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

2. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: College Edition, Laurence Urdang, editor

3. Listen to the Warm, Rod McKuen

4. Between Parent and Child, Haim G. Ginott

5. Lonesome Cities, Rod McKuen

6. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Erwin M. Stillman and Samm Sinclair Baker

7. The Money Game, Adam Smith

8. Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows, Rod McKuen

9. The Weight Watcher's Cook Book, Jean Nidetch

10. Better Homes and Gardens Eat and Stay Slim

1 9 6 9

Fiction

1. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth  

2. The Godfather, Mario Puzo  

3. The Love Machine, Jacqueline Susann

4. The Inheritors, Harold Robbins

5. The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton  

6. The Seven Minutes, Irving Wallace

7. Naked Came the Stranger, Penelope Ashe

8. The Promise, Chaim Potok

9. The Pretenders, Gwen Davis

10. The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier

Non Fiction

1. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, William Morris, editor

2. In Someone's Shadow, Rod McKuen

3. The Peter Principle, Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

4. Between Parent and Teenager, Dr. Haim G. Ginott

5. The Graham Kerr Cookbook, the Galloping Gourmet

6. The Selling of the President 1968, Joe McGinniss

7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Marjorie Craig

8. My Life and Prophecies, Jeane Dixon with René Noorbergen

9. Linda Goodman's Sun Signs, Linda Goodman

10. Twelve Years of Christmas, Rod McKuen

1 9 7 0

Fiction

1. Love Story, Erich Segal  

2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles

3. Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway  

4. The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart  

5. Great Lion of God, Taylor Caldwell

6. QB VII, Leon Uris

7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Jimmy Breslin

8. The Secret Woman, Victoria Holt

9. Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene

10. Rich Man, Poor Man, Irwin Shaw

Non Fiction

1. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex but Were Afraid To Ask, David Reuben, M.D.

2. The New English Bible

3. The Sensuous Woman, "J"

4. Better Homes and Gardens Fondue and Tabletop Cooking

5. Up the Organization, Robert Townsend

6. Ball Four, Jim Bouton

7. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, William Morris

8. Body Language, Julius Fast

9. In Someone's Shadow, Rod McKuen

10. Caught in the Quiet, Rod McKuen

1 9 7 1

Fiction

1. Wheels, Arthur Hailey

2. The Exorcist, William P. Blatty  

3. The Passions of the Mind, Irving Stone

4. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth  

5. The Betsy, Harold Robbins

6. Message from Malaga, Helen MacInnes

7. The Winds of War, Herman Wouk

8. The Drifters, James A. Michener

9. The Other, Thomas Tryon

10. Rabbit Redux, John Updike  

Non Fiction

1. The Sensous Man, "M"

2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

3. Better Homes and Gardens Blender Cook Book

4. I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris

5. Any Woman Can!, David Reuben, M.D.

6. Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer

7. Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash

8. Wunnerful, Wunnerful!, Lawrence Welk

9. Honor Thy Father, Gay Talese

10. Fields of Wonder, Rod McKuen

1 9 7 2

Fiction

1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach  

2. August, 1914, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

3. The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth

4. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth  

5. The Word, Irving Wallace

6. The Winds of War, Herman Wouk

7. Captains and the Kings, Taylor Caldwell

8. Two from Galilee, Marjorie Holmes

9. My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok

10. Semi-Tough, Dan Jenkins

Non Fiction

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor

2. I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris

3. Open Marriage, Nena and George O'Neill

4. Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman

5. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins

6. Better Homes and Gardens Menu Cook Book

7. The Peter Prescription, Laurence J. Peter

8. A World Beyond, Ruth Montgomery

9. Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda

10. Better Homes and Gardens Low-Calorie Desserts

1 9 7 3

Fiction

1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach  

2. Once Is Not Enough, Jacqueline Susann

3. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut  

4. The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth

5. Burr, Gore Vidal  

6. The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart

7. Evening in Byzantium, Irwin Shaw

8. The Matlock Paper, Robert Ludlum

9. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, Paul E. Erdman

10. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene

Non Fiction

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor

2. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins

3. I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris

4. The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort

5. Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Jean Nidetch

6. How To Be Your Own Best Friend, Mildred Newman, et al.

7. The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch

8. Better Homes and Gardens Home Canning Cookbook

9. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistair Cooke

10. Sybil, Flora R. Schreiber

1 9 7 4

Fiction

1. Centennial, James A. Michener  

2. Watership Down, Richard Adams  

3. Jaws, Peter Benchley  

4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré  

5. Something Happened, Joseph Heller

6. The Dogs of War, Frederick Forsyth

7. The Pirate, Harold J. Robbins

8. I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Craven

9. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, John H. Watson, M.D., Nicholas Meyer, editor

10. The Fan Club, Irving Wallace

Non Fiction

1. The Total Woman, Marabel Morgan

2. All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

3. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller

4. More Joy: A Lovemaking Companion to The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort

5. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistair Cooke

6. Tales of Power, Carlos A. Castaneda

7. You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Harry Browne

8. All Things Bright and Beautiful, James Herriot

9. The Bermuda Triangle, Charles Berlitz with J. Manson Valentine

10. The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas

1 9 7 5

Fiction

1. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow

2. The Moneychangers, Arthur Hailey

3. Curtain, Agatha Christie

4. Looking for Mister Goodbar, Judith Rossner

5. The Choirboys, Joseph Wambaugh

6. The Eagle Has Landed, Jack Higgins  

7. The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann, Irving Stone

8. The Great Train Robbery, Michael Crichton  

9. Shogun, James Clavell  

10. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow

Non Fiction

1. Angels: God's Secret Agents, Billy Graham

2. Winning Through Intimidation, Robert Ringer

3. TM: Discovering Energy and Overcoming Stress, Harold H. Bloomfield

4. The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski

5. Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Sylvia Porter

6. Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week, Laurence E. Morehouse and Leonard Gross

7. The Bermuda Triangle, Charles Berlitz with J. Manson Valentine

8. The Save-Your-Life Diet, David Reuben

9. Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven

10. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon, Theodore H. White

1 9 7 6

Fiction

1. Trinity, Leon Uris

2. Sleeping Murder, Agatha Christie

3. Dolores, Jacqueline Susann

4. Storm Warning, Jack Higgins

5. The Deep, Peter Benchley

6. 1876, Gore Vidal  

7. Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More!, Kurt Vonnegut  

8. The Lonely Lady, Harold Robbins

9. Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart

10. A Stranger in the Mirror, Sidney Sheldon

Non Fiction

1. The Final Days, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

2. Roots, Alex Haley

3. Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

4. Passages: The Predictable Crises of Adult Life, Gail Sheehy

5. Born Again, Charles W. Colson

6. The Grass ls Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck

7. Angels: God's Secret Agents, Billy Graham

8. Blind Ambition: The White House Years, John Dean

9. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, Shere Hite

10. The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate, Leon Jaworski

1 9 7 7

Fiction

1. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien  

2. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough

3. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach

4. The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carré  

5. Oliver's Story, Erich Segal

6. Dreams Die First, Harold Robbins

7. Beggarman, Thief, Irwin Shaw

8. How To Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

9. Delta of Venus: Erotica, Anaïs Nin

10. Daniel Martin, John Fowles

Non Fiction

1. Roots, Alex Haley

2. Looking Out for #1, Robert Ringer

3. All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot

4. Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

5. The Book of Lists, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace, and Amy Wallace

6. The Possible Dream: A Candid Look at Amway, Charles Paul Conn

7. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, Carl Sagan

8. The Second Ring of Power, Carlos Castaneda

9. The Grass ls Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck

10. The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson

1 9 7 8

Fiction

1. Chesapeake, James A. Michener

2. War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk

3. Fools Die, Mario Puzo

4. Bloodlines, Sidney Sheldon

5. Scruples, Judith Krantz

6. Evergreen, Belva Plain

7. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach

8. The Holcroft Covenant, Robert Ludlum

9. Second Generation, Howard Fast

10. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett

Non Fiction

1. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Erma Bombeck

2. Gnomes, Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet

3. The Complete Book of Running, James Fixx

4. Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford

5. Pulling Your Own Strings, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

8. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon

7. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman

8. Faeries, Brian Froud and Alan Lee

9. ln Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Theodore H. White

10. The Muppet Show Book, the Muppet People

1 9 7 9

Fiction

1. The Matarese Circle, Robert Ludlum

2. Sophie's Choice, William Styron

3. Overload, Arthur Hailey

4. Memories of Another Day, Harold Robbins

5. Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut

6. The Dead Zone, Stephen King  

7. The Last Enchantment, Mary Stewart

8. The Establishment, Howard Fast

9. The Third World War: August 1985, Gen. Sir John Hackett, et al.

10. Smiley's People, John Le Carré  

Non Fiction

1. Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Erma Bombeck

2. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Herman Tarnower, M.D., and Samm Sinclair Baker

3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff

4. Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin

5. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Nathan Pritikin and Patrick McGrady Jr.

6. White House Years, Henry Kissinger

7. Lauren Bacall By Myself, Lauren Bacall

8. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong

9. Restoring the American Dream, Robert J. Ringer

10. The Winner's Circle, Charles Paul Conn

1 9 8 0

Fiction

1. The Covenant, James A. Michener

2. The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum  

3. Rage of Angels, Sidney Sheldon

4. Princess Daisy, Judith Krantz

5. Firestarter, Stephen King  

6. The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett

7. Random Winds, Belva Plain

8. The Devil's Alternative, Frederick Forsyth

9. The Fifth Horseman, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

10. The Spike, Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss

Non Fiction

1. Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression, Douglas R. Casey

2. Cosmos, Carl Sagan

3. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, Milton and Rose Friedman

4. Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient, Norman Cousins

5. Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese

6. The Sky's the Limit, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

7. The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler

8. Craig Claiborne's Gourmet Diet, Craig Claiborne with Pierre Franey

9. Nothing Down, Robert Allen

10. Shelley: Also Known as Shirley, Shelley Winters

1 9 8 1

Fiction

1. Noble House, James Clavell

2. The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving  

3. Cujo, Stephen King  

4. An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough

5. Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith 

6. Masquerade, Kit Williams

7. Goodbye, Janette, Harold Robbins

8. The Third Deadly Sin, Lawrence Sanders

9. The Glitter Dome, Joseph Wambaugh

10. No Time for Tears, Cynthia Freeman

Non Fiction

1. The Beverly Hills Diet, Judy Mazel

2. The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot

3. Richard Simmons' Never-Say-Diet Book, Richard Simmons

4. A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein

5. Cosmos, Carl Sagan

6. Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book

7. Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, Miss Piggy as told to Henry Beard

8. Weight Watchers 365-Day Menu Cookbook

9. You Can Negotiate Anything, Herb Cohen

10. A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, Andrew A. Rooney

1 9 8 2

Fiction

1. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial Storybook, William Kotzwinkle

2. Space,James A. Michener  

3. The Parsifal Mosaic, Robert Ludlum

4. Master of the Game, Sidney Sheldon

5. Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz

6. The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel

7. Different Seasons, Stephen King

8. North and South, John Jakes

9. 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke  

10. The Man from St. Petersburg, Ken Follett

Non Fiction

1. Jane Fonda's Workout Book, Jane Fonda

2. Living, Loving and Learning, Leo Buscaglia

3. And More by Andy Rooney, Andrew A. Rooney

4. Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook

5. Life Extension: Adding Years to Your Life And Life to Your Years--A Practical Scientific Approach, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

6. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold S. Kushner

7. A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, Andrew A. Rooney

8. The Weight Watchers Food Plan Diet Cookbook, Jean Nidetch

9. Richard Simmons' Never-Say-Diet Cookbook, Richard Simmons

10. No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way, Barbara Woodhouse

1 9 8 3

Fiction

1. Return of the Jedi Storybook, Joan D. Vinge, adapt.

2. Poland, James A. Michener

3. Pet Sematary, Stephen King  

4. The Little Drummer Girl, John Le Carré

5. Christine, Stephen King  

6. Changes, Danielle Steel

7. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco  

8. White Gold Wielder: Book Three of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson  

9. Hollywood Wives, Jackie Collins

10. The Lonesome Gods, Louis L'Amour

Non Fiction

1. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.

2. Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, John Naisbitt

3. Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession, Erma Bombeck

4. The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

5. Jane Fonda's Workout Book, Jane Fonda

6. The Best of James Herriot, James Herriot

7. The Mary Kay Guide to Beauty: Discovering Your Special Look

8. On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett

9. Creating Wealth, Robert G. Allen

10. The Body Principal: The Exercise Program for Life, Victoria Principal

1 9 8 4

Fiction

1. The Talisman, Stephen King and Peter Straub  

2. The Aquitaine Progression, Robert Ludlum

3. The Sicilian, Mario Puzo

4. Love and War, John Jakes

5. The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss

6. ". . . And the Ladies of the Club," Helen Hooven Santmyer

7. The Fourth Protocol, Frederick Forsyth

8. Full Circle, Danielle Steel

9. The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz, Joan Rivers

10. Lincoln: A Novel, Gore Vidal  

Non Fiction

1. Iacocca: An Autobiography, Lee Iacocca with William Novak

2. Loving Each Other, Leo Buscaglia

3. Eat to Win: The Sports Nutrition Bible, Robert Haas, M.D.

4. Pieces of My Mind, Andrew A. Rooney

5. Weight Watchers Fast and Fabulous Cookbook

6. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-Smart Executive, Mark H. McCormack

7. Women Coming of Age, Jane Fonda with Mignon McCarthy

8. Moses the Kitten, James Herriot

9. The One Minute Salesperson, Spencer Johnson, M.D., and Larry Wilson

10. Weight Watchers Quick Start Program Cookbook, Jean Nidetch

1 9 8 5

Fiction

1. The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M. Auel

2. Texas, James A. Michener

3. Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor

4. If Tomorrow Comes, Sidney Sheldon  

5. Skeleton Crew, Stephen King  

6. Secrets, Danielle Steel

7. Contact, Carl Sagan  

8. Lucky, Jackie Collins

9. Family Album, Danielle Steel

10. Jubal Sackett, Louis L'Amour

Non Fiction

1. Iacocca: An Autobiography, Lee Iacocca with William Novak

2. Yeager: An Autobiography, Gen. Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos

3. Elvis and Me, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon

4. Fit for Life, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

5. The Be-Happy Attitudes, Robert Schuller

6. Dancing in the Light, Shirley MacLaine

7. A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference, Thomas J. Peters and Nancy K. Austin

8. The Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith

9. I Never Played the Game, Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre

10. Dr. Berger's Immune Power Diet, Stuart M. Berger, M.D.

1 9 8 6

Fiction

1. It, Stephen King  

2. Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy  

3. Whirlwind, James Clavell

4. The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum  

5. Hollywood Husbands, Jackie Collins

6. Wanderlust, Danielle Steel

7. I'll Take Manhattan, Judith Krantz

8. Last of the Breed, Louis L'Amour  

9. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy

10. A Perfect Spy, John Le Carré

Non Fiction

1. Fatherhood, Bill Cosby

2. Fit for Life, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

3. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, Kitty Kelley

4. The Rotation Diet, Martin Katahn

5. You're Only Old Once, Dr. Seuss

6. Callanetics: Ten Years Younger in Ten Hours, Callan Pinckney

7. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, Jeff Smith

8. Be Happy--You Are Loved!, Robert H. Schuller

9. Word for Word, Andrew A. Rooney

10. James Herriot's Dog Stories, James Herriot

1 9 8 7

Fiction

1. The Tommyknockers, Stephen King  

2. Patriot Games, Tom Clancy  

3. Kaleidoscope, Danielle Steel

4. Misery, Stephen King  

5. Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories, Garrison Keillor

6. Windmills of the Gods, Sidney Sheldon

7. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

8. Fine Things, Danielle Steel

9. Heaven and Hell, John Jakes

10. The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King  

Non Fiction

1. Time Flies, Bill Cosby

2. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass

3. Family: The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag!, Erma Bombeck

4. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, Bob Woodward

5. A Day in the Life of America, Rick Smolan and David Cohen

6. The Great Depression of 1990, Ravi Batra

7. It's All in the Playing, Shirley MacLaine

8. Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. with William Novak

9. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American, Jeff Smith

10. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom

1 9 8 8

Fiction

1. The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Tom Clancy  

2. The Sands of Time, Sidney Sheldon

3. Zoya, Danielle Steel

4. The Icarus Agenda, Robert Ludlum  

5. Alaska, James A. Michener

6. Till We Meet Again, Judith Krantz

7. The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice  

8. To Be the Best, Barbara Taylor Bradford

9. One: A Novel, Richard Bach

10. Mitla Pass, Leon Uris

Non Fiction

1. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure, Robert E. Kowalski

2. Talking Straight, Lee Iacocca with Sonny Kleinfield

3. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Steven W. Hawking

4. Trump: The Art of the Deal, Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz

5. Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns

6. Elizabeth Takes Off, Elizabeth Taylor

7. Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive, Harvey MacKay

8. Christmas in America, David Cohen, editor

9. Weight Watchers Quick Success Program Book, Jean Nidetch

10. Moonwalk, Michael Jackson

1 9 8 9

Fiction

1. Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy  

2. The Dark Half, Stephen King  

3. Daddy, Danielle Steel

4. Star, Danielle Steel

5. Caribbean, James A. Michener

6. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie  

7. The Russia House, John Le Carré

8. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet  

9. California Gold, John Jakes

10. While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark

Non Fiction

1. All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things, Robert Fulghum

2. Wealth Without Risk: How To Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb, Charles J. Givens

3. A Woman Named Jackie, C. David Heymann

4. It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, Robert Fulghum

5. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

6. The Way Things Work, David Macaulay

7. It's Always Something, Gilda Radner

8. Roseanne: My Life as a Woman, Roseanne Barr

9. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines: China, Greece, and Rome, Jeff Smith

10. My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, Nancy Reagan with William Novak

1 9 9 0

Fiction

1. The Plains of Passage, Jean M. Auel

2. Four Past Midnight, Stephen King  

3. The Burden of Proof, Scott Turow

4. Memories of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon

5. Message from Nam, Danielle Steel

6. The Bourne Ultimatum, Robert Ludlum  

7. The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition, Stephen King  

8. Lady Boss, Jackie Collins

9. The Witching Hour, Anne Rice  

10. September, Rosamunde Pilcher

Non Fiction

1. A Life on the Road, Charles Kuralt

2. The Civil War, Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns

3. The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Heritage: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother, Jeff Smith

4. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

5. Financial Self-Defense: How To Win the Fight for Financial Freedom, Charles J. Givens

6. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, John Bradshaw

7. Wealth Without Risk: How To Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb, Charles J. Givens

8. Bo Knows Bo, Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap

9. An American Life: An Autobiography, Ronald Reagan

10. Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990s, John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene

1 9 9 1

Fiction

1. Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," Alexandra Ripley

2. The Sum of All Fears, Tom Clancy  

3. Needful Things, Stephen King  

4. No Greater Love, Danielle Steel

5. Heartbeat, Danielle Steel

6. The Doomsday Conspiracy, Sidney Sheldon

7. The Firm, John Grisham  

8. Night Over Water, Ken Follet

9. Remember, Barbara Taylor Bradford

10. Loves Music, Loves to Dance, Mary Higgins Clark

Non Fiction

1. Me: Stories of My Life, Katharine Hepburn

2. Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, Kitty Kelley

3. Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door, Robert Fulghum

4. Under Fire: An American Story, Oliver North with William Novak

5. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, Derek Humphry

6. When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, Erma Bombeck

7. More Wealth Without Risk, Charles J. Givens

8. Den of Thieves, James B. Stewart

9. Childhood, Bill Cosby

10. Financial Self-Defense, Charles J. Givens

1 9 9 2

Fiction

1. Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King  

2. The Pelican Brief, John Grisham  

3. Gerald's Game, Stephen King  

4. Mixed Blessings, Danielle Steel

5. Jewels, Danielle Steel

6. The Stars Shine Down, Sidney Sheldon

7. Tale of the Body Thief, Anne Rice  

8. Mexico, James A. Michener

9. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan

10. All Around the Town, Mary Higgins Clark  

Non Fiction

1. The Way Things Ought To Be, Rush Limbaugh

2. It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

3. How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time, Naura Hayden

4. Every Living Thing, James Herriot

5. A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson

6. Sam Walton: Made in America, Sam Walton

7. Diana: Her True Story, Andrew Morton

8. Truman, David McCullough

9. Silent Passage, Gail Sheehy

10. Sex, Madonna

1 9 9 3

Fiction

1. The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller

2. The Client, John Grisham  

3. Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend, Robert James Waller

4. Without Remorse, Tom Clancy  

5. Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King  

6. Vanished, Danielle Steel

7. Lasher, Anne Rice  

8. Pleading Guilty, Scott Turow

9. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

10. The Scorpio Illusion, Robert Ludlum

Non Fiction

1. See, I Told You So, Rush Limbaugh

2. Private Parts, Howard Stern

3. Seinlanguage, Jerry Seinfeld

4. Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie with Curtis Taylor

5. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra

6. Stop the Insanity, Susan Powter

7. Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

8. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray

9. The Hidden Life of Dogs, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

10. And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend, Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake

1 9 9 4

Fiction

1. The Chamber, John Grisham  

2. Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy  

3. The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield  

4. The Gift, Danielle Steel

5. Insomnia, Steven King  

6. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner  

7. Wings, Danielle Steel

8. Accident, Danielle Steel

9. The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller

10. Disclosure, Michael Crichton  

Non Fiction

1. In the Kitchen with Rosie, Rosie Daley

2. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray

3. Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul II.

4. Magic Eye I, N.E. Thing Enterprises

5. The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett

6. Magic Eye II, N.E. Thing Enterprises

7. Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie with Curtis Taylor

8. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, Tim Allen

9. Couplehood, Paul Reiser

10. Magic Eye III, N.E. Thing Enterprises

1 9 9 5

Fiction

1. The Rainmaker, John Grisham  

2. The Lost World, Michael Crichton  

3. Five Days in Paris, Danielle Steel

4. The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans  

5. Lightning, Danielle Steel

6. The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield  

7. Rose Madder, Stephen King  

8. Silent Night, Mary Higgins Clark

9. Politically Correct Holiday Stories, James Finn Garner  

10. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans  

Non Fiction

1. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray

2. My American Journey, Colin Powell

3. Miss America, Howard Stern

4. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra

5. The Road Ahead, Bill Gates

6. Charles Kuralt's America, Charles Kuralt

7. Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, John Gray

8. To Renew America, Newt Gingrich

9. My Point...and I Do Have One, Ellen DeGeneres

10. The Moral Compass, William J. Bennett

1 9 9 6

Fiction

1. The Runaway Jury, John Grisham  

2. Executive Orders, Tom Clancy  

3. Desperation, Stephen King  

4. Airframe, Michael Crichton  

5. The Regulators, Richard Bachman  

6. Malice, Danielle Steele

7. Silent Honor, Danielle Steel

8. Primary Colors, Anonymous

9. Cause of Death, Patricia Cornwell  

10. The Tenth Insight, James Redfield

Non Fiction

1. Make the Connection, Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene

2. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray

3. The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams

4. Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach

5. The Zone, Barry Sears with Bill Lawren

6. Bad As I Wanna Be, Dennis Rodman

7. In Contempt, Christopher Darden

8. A Reporter's Life, Walter Cronkite

9. Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams

10. My Sergei: A Love Story, Ekaterina Gordeeva with E. M. Swift

1 9 9 7

Fiction

1. The Partner, John Grisham  

2. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

3. The Ghost, Danielle Steel

4. The Ranch, Danielle Steel

5. Special Delivery, Danielle Steel

6. Unnatural Exposure, Patricia Cornwell  

7. The Best Laid Plans, Sidney Sheldon

8. Pretend You Don't See Her, Mary Higgins Clark

9. Cat & Mouse, James Patterson

10. Hornet's Nest, Patricia Cornwell  

Non Fiction

1. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt  

2. Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach

3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt

4. The Royals, Kitty Kelley

5. Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker

6. Diana: Her True Story, Andrew Morton

7. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

8. Conversations with God, Book I, Neale Donald Walsch

9. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray

10. Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Andrew Weil

1 9 9 8

Fiction

1. The Street Lawyer, John Grisham  

2. Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy  

3. Bag of Bones, Stephen King  

4. A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe

5. Mirror Image, Danielle Steel

6. The Long Road Home, Danielle Steel

7. The Klone and I, Danielle Steel

8. Point of Origin, Patricia Cornwell  

9. Paradise, Toni Morrison

10. All Through the Night, Mary Higgins Clark

Non Fiction

1. The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman

2. The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw

3. Sugar Busters!, H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart

4. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

5. The Guinness Book of Records 1999

6. Talking to Heaven, James Van Praagh

7. Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self, Sarah Ban Breathnach

8. In the Meantime, Iyanla Vanzant

9. A Pirate Looks at Fifty, Jimmy Buffett

10. If Life Is a Game These Are the Rules, Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.


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