case in 1948, watching and listening to the first symphony and opera
telecasts. They were seeing _Mister Roberts_ and _Kiss Me Kate_ on the
stage. _Slow Boat to China_, _Nature Boy_ and Citation became familiar
words. Published in mid-November of 1948, Lloyd C. Douglas’s second
Biblical novel _The Big Fisherman_ outdistanced all the other fiction
titles of that year. It had an advance of 245,000 copies and, by the end
of the year, had sold 366,692. Comparable figures for _The Robe_, issued
in 1942, were an advance of 42,000 and a sale of about 100,000 by the
end of the year. _The Robe_ was a best seller for 32 months, a record
only bettered in later years by _Peace of Mind_ and _The Power of
Positive Thinking_ by Dr. Peale. The first postwar novel about World War
II to make the annual list was in second place. This was _The Naked and
the Dead_, by Norman Mailer, a new writer who received a great deal of
important critical attention. His book sold 137,185 copies in the stores
plus about 60,000 through the Book Find Club. Another World War II novel
and also a first novel, though its author, Irwin Shaw, was well known as
a playwright and short story writer, reached tenth place on the list.
His _The Young Lions_ had a sale of 78,050 in 1948. There was another
first novelist on 1948’s list, also highly regarded by the critics, Ross
Lockridge, Jr., who committed suicide not long after his _Raintree
County_ had achieved great success. All the rest of the best-selling
novels of 1948 were by authors of longtime popularity. Frances Parkinson
Keyes’ _Dinner at Antoine’s_ was in third place with a sale of 114,249
copies. It was followed by Agnes Sligh Turnbull’s novel with a religious
theme, _The Bishop’s Mantle_, which sold over 100,000 copies through the
trade, its Dollar Book Club and other sales bringing it close to the
million mark. Betty Smith’s successor to _A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_,
_Tomorrow Will Be Better_, was fifth. With its bookstore sale of 102,163
and its Dollar Book Club sales, Frank Yerby’s _The Golden Hawk_ passed
the million mark, making it probably the best-selling novel of the year
in sales to the public through all media. Memoirs of the war and war
years were prominent among the non-fiction best sellers of the year.
General Eisenhower’s _Crusade in Europe_ topped them with sales in a
little over a month, of 239,265 copies plus a large book club sale.
Prime Minister Churchill’s first volume in his great history of World
War II, _The Gathering Storm_, was seventh on the list, and Robert E.
Sherwood’s _Roosevelt and Hopkins_, eighth. The trend toward big sales
for books on man’s intimate psychological, spiritual, and physical
problems accelerated. Four books on the list could be placed in such
categories: _How to Stop Worrying and Start Living_, _Peace of Mind_,
_Sexual Behavior in the Human Male_, and _A Guide to Confident Living_.
Dale Carnegie’s book followed his great success, _How to Win Friends and
Influence People_, with a sale of 235,636 in its first year. Joshua
Liebman’s _Peace of Mind_, in its third year as a leading seller was
close behind it with 227,705. Book phenomenon of the year, the Kinsey
Report, sold about 225,000 copies. Dr. Peale’s first best seller, _A
Guide to Confident Living_, had sales of 78,000 copies in 1948. Three
books in lighter moods completed the list: entrepreneur Billy Rose’s
_Wine, Women and Words_, with sales of 155,655, of which only 28,149
were clothbound copies; cartoonist Al Capp’s _The Life and Times of the
Shmoo_, selling 141,977 in paper covers; and egg fancier Betty
MacDonald’s _The Plague and I_.
1949
Fiction
1. THE EGYPTIAN, by Mika Waltari. Putnam
2. THE BIG FISHERMAN, by Lloyd C. Douglas. Houghton Mifflin
3. MARY, by Sholem Asch. Putnam
4. A RAGE TO LIVE, by John O’Hara. Random House
5. POINT OF NO RETURN, by John P. Marquand. Little, Brown
6. DINNER AT ANTOINE’S, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Messner
7. HIGH TOWERS, by Thomas B. Costain. Doubleday
8. CUTLASS EMPIRE, by Van Wyck Mason. Doubleday
9. PRIDE’S CASTLE, by Frank Yerby. Dial Press
10. FATHER OF THE BRIDE, by Edward Streeter. Simon & Schuster
Non-Fiction
1. WHITE COLLAR ZOO, by Clare Barnes, Jr. Doubleday
2. HOW TO WIN AT CANASTA, by Oswald Jacoby. Doubleday
3. THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, by Thomas Merton. Harcourt, Brace
4. HOME SWEET ZOO, by Clare Barnes, Jr. Doubleday
5. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Crowell
6. THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, by Fulton Oursler. Doubleday
7. CANASTA, THE ARGENTINE RUMMY GAME, by Ottilie H. Reilly. Ives Washburn
8. CANASTA, by Josephine Artayeta de Viel and Ralph Michael. Pellegrini & Cudahy
9. PEACE OF SOUL, by Fulton J. Sheen. Whittlesey House
10. A GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING, by Norman Vincent Peale. Prentice-Hall
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As President Truman began a second term, people were disturbed by high
coffee prices and returned to coffee hoarding. New Yorkers were asked to
hoard water because of shortage--until the disastrous floods came to
the northeastern states in the latter part of 1949. Tickets for _South
Pacific_, the biggest musical hit in years, were only obtainable at
impossible prices. Historical novels came back into their own in 1949,
comprising more than half the fiction list, two of the six built on
Biblical characters. Best-selling novel was _The Egyptian_, by Mika
Waltari. It was a story of ancient Egypt and the Near East, a
translation from the Finnish of a writer not previously published in
this country. Though sales of _The Big Fisherman_ were much smaller in
1949 than in 1948, when it topped the annual list, it was, nevertheless,
second for the year, selling 162,615 in comparison with 1948’s 366,692.
Another Biblical novel, _Mary_, by Sholem Asch, was third. Historical
romances by the perennially best-selling authors, Costain, Mason, and
Yerby were in seventh, eighth and ninth places. _High Towers_ had a
trade sale of 84,710 plus a Dollar Book Club sale of 824,434. _Cutlass
Empire_ also had a large book club sale in addition to its 80,668
through bookstores. _Pride’s Castle_ sold 73,503 plus a Dollar Book Club
sale that brought it up over the million mark. On a theme far from
Biblical was modern novelist John O’Hara’s _A Rage to Live_. Its sales
were 135,000 copies. _Point of No Return_, by John P. Marquand, later to
be the basis of a very successful stage play, as was his _Late George
Apley_, was fifth with 128,164 copies sold through the trade and a total
sale, including book club, of 528,164. _Dinner at Antoine’s_, which had
been third on the 1948 list, sold 95,000 more copies in 1949. With its
Dollar Book Club sale it reached over a million. Thirty-one years after
his big seller of World War I, _Dere Mable_, appeared on the best seller
list, Edward Streeter reappeared with his entertaining novel, _Father of
the Bride_ (later a movie), which sold 73,281 copies plus
Book-of-the-Month Club distribution. Feature of 1949 non-fiction was the
predominance of what could be called non-reading books--picture books
and game books. The hilarious “Zoo” books by Clare Barnes, Jr.,
photographs of animals caricaturing certain moments of humans, were the
big hits of the year. _White Collar Zoo_ took first place with its sale
of 395,000 copies. _Home Sweet Zoo_, published on December 2, wound up
in fourth place, selling 262,000 copies in the last month of the year.
The Canasta craze that hit the U.S. was reflected in the appearance of
three Canasta books. Oswald Jacoby’s _How to Win at Canasta_ was second
with a sale of 385,333. _Canasta, the Argentine Rummy Game_, by Ottilie
H. Reilly, sold 206,000 copies. _Canasta_, by Josephine Artayeta de Viel
and Ralph Michael, sold over 200,000 in the bookstores and, in a cheaper
edition, about 400,000 more through other outlets. Thomas Merton’s _The
Seven Storey Mountain_ led the religious titles which made up most of
the remainder of the non-fiction list. It sold 307,400 copies in 1949.
Fulton Oursler’s _The Greatest Story Ever Told_ was sixth with 205,426
sold through the trade, 286,906 through book clubs. _Peace of Soul_, the
then Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen’s rejoinder to Dr. Liebman’s _Peace of
Mind_, was ninth with a total of 182,652. _A Guide to Confident Living_,
which had been ninth on the 1948 list, was tenth in 1949, selling
158,000 copies, 15,000 of them in the month of December. The remaining
“reading” book on the list, in fact the only one not religious, not a
picture or game book, was the humorous family biography, _Cheaper by the
Dozen_, by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. It sold
241,093 copies in the stores and 257,000 through the Book-of-the-Month
Club.
1950
Fiction
1. THE CARDINAL, by Henry Morton Robinson. Simon & Schuster
2. JOY STREET, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Messner
3. ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES, by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner
4. THE WALL, by John Hersey. Knopf
5. STAR MONEY, by Kathleen Winsor. Appleton-Century-Crofts
6. THE PARASITES, by Daphne du Maurier. Doubleday
7. FLOODTIDE, by Frank Yerby. Dial Press
8. JUBILEE TRAIL, by Gwen Bristow. Crowell
9. THE ADVENTURER, by Mika Waltari. Putnam
10. THE DISENCHANTED, by Budd Schulberg. Random House
Non-Fiction
1. BETTY CROCKER’S PICTURE COOK BOOK. McGraw-Hill
2. THE BABY. Simon & Schuster
3. LOOK YOUNGER, LIVE LONGER, by Gayelord Hauser. Farrar, Straus & Young
4. HOW I RAISED MYSELF FROM FAILURE TO SUCCESS IN SELLING, by Frank Bettger. Prentice-Hall
5. KON-TIKI, by Thor Heyerdahl. Rand McNally
6. MR. JONES, MEET THE MASTER, by Peter Marshall. Revell
7. YOUR DREAM HOME, by Hubbard Cobb. Wise
8. THE MATURE MIND, by H. A. Overstreet. Norton
9. CAMPUS ZOO, by Clare Barnes, Jr. Doubleday
10. BELLES ON THEIR TOES, by Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Crowell
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Television came into its own in 1950 with the tremendous interest shown
in the Kefauver committee’s crime investigation hearings. The President
recalled General MacArthur after the start of the Korean War and
authorized continued work on the H bomb. The theatre-in-the-round was
arousing interest, and people were humming _Goodnight, Irene_.
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis met defeat before the gloves of Ezzard
Charles. George Bernard Shaw died at the age of 94. The majority of the
1950 fiction best sellers were modern stories in contrast to the
predominance of historical novels in 1949. _The Cardinal_, top seller of
the year, was by an author new to the best seller lists, as also were
_Jubilee Trail_ and _The Disenchanted_. All the others were by authors
who had appeared on annual best seller lists at least once. Trade
interest in _The Cardinal_ was heightened by its publication in both
cloth and paperbound editions, the first major trial of this
merchandising method for a best-selling novel. It sold 435,516 copies in
paper, 152,879 in cloth, a total of 588,395. Frances Parkinson Keyes’
_Joy Street_, second in fiction sales, reached its place with only one
month in the bookstores. It was published on December 1 with an advance
of 110,000. Re-orders made its total, by the end of the year, 140,285.
Third and fourth were two novels by well-known writers in which World
War II was the background--a much less important background in Ernest
Hemingway’s _Across the River and Into the Trees_ than in John Hersey’s
fine novel of the Jewish quarter in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. _Across the
River and Into the Trees_ sold 104,000 copies. _The Wall_ sold 97,860
plus a Book-of-the-Month Club distribution of 230,000. Kathleen Winsor
followed up the success of _Forever Amber_ with the story of a modern
girl, _Star Money_. The total sale of _The Parasites_ by Daphne du
Maurier, including that of the Book League, was 401,891. Its trade sale
was 82,347 copies. From seventh to ninth places came the only
best-selling historical novels of the year. Frank Yerby’s _Floodtide_,
81,000, outsold his _Pride’s Castle_ of 1949. In addition, it had a
large Dollar Book Club sale. _Jubilee Trail_, by Gwen Bristow, was over
half a million with its Literary Guild copies. Ninth was _The
Adventurer_, by Mika Waltari, whose _The Egyptian_ had topped the 1949
list. Budd Schulberg’s novel, presumably based on the life of F. Scott
Fitzgerald _The Disenchanted_, wound up the fiction. It sold 70,000
through the trade, 255,000 including book club copies. Again in 1950
“reading” books were scarce among the top ten sellers in non-fiction.
Eight out of the ten fell into “how to,” picture book, or “self-help”
categories, if the Marshall and Overstreet books may be included in the
last-named group. The two remaining titles, _Kon-Tiki_, by Thor
Heyerdahl and _Belles on Their Toes_, by the Gilbreth writing team, sold
respectively 128,848 copies and over 300,000 with book club copies.
Leading the bookstore list of 1950 non-fiction best sellers was _Betty
Crocker’s Picture Cook Book_, with a trade sale of 300,000. General
Mills sold about 200,000 more. _The Baby_, humorous picture book, sold
about 250,000 copies in the bookstores, with a sale, including
newsstands, of 322,236. _Look Younger, Live Longer_, by Gayelord Hauser,
sold about 200,000 copies in bookstores, with its health food store
sale, 275,135. Frank Bettger’s _How I Raised Myself from Failure to
Success in Selling_, in fourth position, sold 195,000 copies. Sixth was
_Mr. Jones, Meet the Master_, by Peter Marshall, reaching a sale of
125,000. _Your Dream Home_, by Hubbard Cobb, sold over 100,000 copies
through bookstores, close to one million by mail, making it actually the
top best seller of the year through all channels. _The Mature Mind_, by
H. A. Overstreet, was the only title among the first ten that appeared
on every monthly list through 1950. It sold 91,341 copies plus a
Book-of-the-Month Club sale of 247,500. _Campus Zoo_, another humorous
picture book, compiled by Clare Barnes, Jr., two of whose “Zoo” books
were on the 1949 list, sold 81,724.
1951
Fiction
1. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, by James Jones. Scribner
2. THE CAINE MUTINY, by Herman Wouk. Doubleday
3. MOSES, by Sholem Asch. Putnam
4. THE CARDINAL, by Henry Morton Robinson. Simon & Schuster
5. A WOMAN CALLED FANCY, by Frank Yerby. Dial Press
6. THE CRUEL SEA, by Nicholas Monsarrat. Knopf
7. MELVILLE GOODWIN, U.S.A., by John P. Marquand. Little, Brown
8. RETURN TO PARADISE, by James A. Michener. Random House
9. THE FOUNDLING, by Cardinal Spellman. Scribner
10. THE WANDERER, by Mika Waltari. Putnam
Non-Fiction
1. LOOK YOUNGER, LIVE LONGER, by Gayelord Hauser. Farrar, Straus & Young
2. BETTY CROCKER’S PICTURE COOK BOOK. McGraw-Hill
3. WASHINGTON CONFIDENTIAL, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer. Crown
4. BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS GARDEN BOOK. Meredith
5. BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS HANDYMAN’S BOOK. Meredith
6. THE SEA AROUND US, by Rachel L. Carson. Oxford University Press
7. THORNDIKE-BARNHART COMPREHENSIVE DESK DICTIONARY, ed. by Clarence L. Barnhart. Doubleday
8. POGO, by Walt Kelly. Simon & Schuster
9. KON-TIKI, by Thor Heyerdahl. Rand McNally
10. THE NEW YORKER TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM. Harper
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Nearly seven years after the end of World War II an Army novel with a
Pearl Harbor finale, topped the fiction sales of the year, and three
other novels with war backgrounds were high on the list. In England
Winston Churchill resumed his post as Prime Minister, two high-ranking
British diplomats disappeared presumably behind the Iron Curtain, and
King George opened the Festival of Britain. Sinclair Lewis and
Henri-Philippe Petain died, the former aged 65, the latter, 95. In the
United States, people were stirred by General MacArthur’s address to
Congress after his recall from the Far East command. Joe Di Maggio
retired from baseball, and Ben Hogan won the Open Golf Championship.
_From Here to Eternity_, James Jones’ first novel, outsold every other
fiction title in the bookstores, reaching a total of 240,000. _The Caine
Mutiny_, by Herman Wouk, story of the wartime Navy, was not far behind
it with a sale of 236,000 copies. In sixth place was another war novel
of the sea, _The Cruel Sea_, by Nicholas Monsarrat, which sold
approximately 70,000 copies. Seventh, was John P. Marquand’s latest best
seller, with a war background, _Melville Goodwin, USA_. Religious novels
took third, fourth and ninth places: _Moses_, by Sholem Asch; _The
Cardinal_, by Henry Morton Robinson, which was the top 1950 seller and
which sold 88,709 copies in 1951; and _The Foundling_, by Cardinal
Spellman, with sales of 61,000. There were only two historical novels on
the list: _A Woman Called Fancy_, by Frank Yerby (75,666), and _The
Wanderer_, by Mika Waltari. James A. Michener’s postwar _Return to
Paradise_ sold 65,000 copies. On the non-fiction list the title which
was third in 1950 took top place in 1951, Gayelord Hauser’s _Look
Younger, Live Longer_. Including the sales of the new edition which came
out in 1951, but not including sales through health food stores, its
total for the year was 286,735. _Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book_,
which was first in 1950, was second in 1951 with sales of 233,500
copies. Third was one of only three books on the non-fiction list that
can be called “reading” books to distinguish them from the “subject”
books--and two picture books--that comprise seven out of the ten. That
was _Washington Confidential_, the first of the “Confidential” books by
Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer to make an annual list. It sold 227,131
copies. The two other “reading” titles were Rachel L. Carson’s _The Sea
Around Us_, with a sale of 167,181, and _Kon-Tiki_, by Thor Heyerdahl
(fifth in 1950), which sold 140,461 copies in 1951. Continuing the
“subject” books, two _Better Homes and Gardens_ titles, the _Garden
Book_ and the _Handyman’s Book_, were fourth and fifth, with
sales through bookstores of 221,213 and 206,989 copies. The
_Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary_ sold 162,623 copies,
not including book club or school distribution. Eighth and tenth were
the two “picture” books, Walt Kelly’s comic strip book for adults,
_Pogo_, selling 145,731 copies, and the cartoon collection, _The New
Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album_. As a rule standard works like
dictionaries and cook books were not included on these _Publishers’
Weekly_ annual best seller lists except in the years when they were new.
That is why the Thorndike-Barnhart dictionary was included on the 1951
list but other standard works like the _World Almanac_ and Lasser’s
_Your Income Tax_, which sells about 200,000 copies annually, were not.
1952
Fiction
1. THE SILVER CHALICE, by Thomas B. Costain. Doubleday
2. THE CAINE MUTINY, by Herman Wouk. Doubleday
3. EAST OF EDEN, by John Steinbeck. Viking Press
4. MY COUSIN RACHEL, by Daphne du Maurier. Doubleday
5. STEAMBOAT GOTHIC, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Messner
6. GIANT, by Edna Ferber. Doubleday
7. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner
8. THE GOWN OF GLORY, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull. Houghton Mifflin
9. THE SARACEN BLADE, by Frank Yerby. Dial Press
10. THE HOUSES IN BETWEEN, by Howard Spring. Harper
Non-Fiction
1. THE HOLY BIBLE: REVISED STANDARD VERSION. Nelson
2. A MAN CALLED PETER, by Catherine Marshall. McGraw-Hill
3. U.S.A. CONFIDENTIAL, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer. Crown
4. THE SEA AROUND US, by Rachel L. Carson. Oxford University Press
5. TALLULAH, by Tallulah Bankhead. Harper
6. THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING, by Norman Vincent Peale. Prentice-Hall
7. THIS I BELIEVE, ed. by Edward P. Morgan; foreword by Edward R. Murrow. Simon & Schuster
8. THIS IS IKE, ed. by Wilson Hicks. Holt
9. WITNESS, by Whittaker Chambers. Random House
10. MR. PRESIDENT, by William Hillman. Farrar, Straus & Young
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In contrast to the best sellers of a few preceding years, the best
sellers of 1952 showed few interesting or new trends, and, in general,
their sales totals were lower. The novels on the list were all written
by well-established authors, most of whom had appeared on annual best
seller lists many times. In 1951 there were four war novels among the
best sellers; in 1952 the only one was a repeat, _The Caine Mutiny_.
There were two historical novels as there were the previous year; two
with religious themes as compared with 1951’s three. Because of a very
large December sale _The Silver Chalice_ won top place in fiction to the
surprise even of its publisher because the second place title, _The
Caine Mutiny_, also a Doubleday book and a best seller for 21 months,
had been running ahead throughout the year. When their sales were
totaled, however, _The Silver Chalice_ turned up with a sale of 221,000
copies, _The Caine Mutiny_ with 189,000. Herman Wouk’s novel was also
second on the 1951 list with 236,000 sold that year. _East of Eden_ sold
140,000; _My Cousin Rachel_ 130,000; _Steamboat Gothic_ over 120,000;
_Giant_ 119,000; _The Gown of Glory_ 62,500 and _The Saracen Blade_ over
55,000. Outstanding on the 1952 non-fiction list was the Nelson Bible
with its close to two-million-copy sale. Three other titles of religious
interest among the 1952 best sellers again pointed up the continuing
popular appeal of religious books. _A Man Called Peter_, which had been
on the list for 15 months, was second with sales of 205,000 copies. It
had sold 94,000 in 1951. _The Power of Positive Thinking_ was in sixth
place with a total of 102,340 sold and _This I Believe_ seventh with
98,500. _U.S.A. Confidential_, third, sold 163,961 copies. _The Sea
Around Us_, on the list for 17 months and seventh in 1951 with a sale of
167,181, was fourth for 1952, selling 105,795. Four biographies, two of
them of political figures, as befitted the election year, made up the
rest of the non-fiction list: _Tallulah_; _This Is Ike_, which sold
about 90,000 copies, including both cloth and paperbound editions;
_Witness_, selling 80,000 copies; and _Mr. President_ totalling 77,246.
Sales of non-fiction titles on the best seller list were larger than
those of fiction but still they did not equal by any means the sales of
the titles on the similar list in 1951. One reason is that “how-to”
books, with their very large sales, made up most of 1951’s list; in
preceding years the non-fiction lists had been heavily weighted with
Canasta, “Zoo,” and standard books of information so that these
non-fiction lists did not reflect the same _reading_ interests among the
new, general books as did the fiction lists. For 1952, the cook books
which had been out for several years and the cartoon books, which were
current popular novelty items, were omitted in order to give a better
picture from the literary point of view of what general topics
interested the public most. The public was greatly interested, also, in
1952, outside the book field, in the forthcoming coronation of Queen
Elizabeth II, in the political campaign in which General Eisenhower
defeated Adlai Stevenson, and in the new Cinerama.
1953
Fiction
1. THE ROBE, by Lloyd C. Douglas. Houghton Mifflin
2. THE SILVER CHALICE, by Thomas B. Costain. Doubleday
3. DÉSIRÉE, by Annemarie Selinko. Morrow
4. BATTLE CRY, by Leon M. Uris. Putnam
5. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, by James Jones. Scribner
6. THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, by Ernest K. Gann. Sloane
7. BEYOND THIS PLACE, by A. J. Cronin. Little, Brown
8. TIME AND TIME AGAIN, by James Hilton. Little, Brown
9. LORD VANITY, by Samuel Shellabarger. Little, Brown
10. THE UNCONQUERED, by Ben Ames Williams. Houghton Mifflin
Non-Fiction
1. THE HOLY BIBLE: REVISED STANDARD VERSION. Nelson
2. THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING, by Norman Vincent Peale. Prentice-Hall
3. SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN FEMALE, by Alfred C. Kinsey and others. Saunders.
4. ANGEL UNAWARE, by Dale Evans Rogers. Revell
5. LIFE IS WORTH LIVING, by Fulton J. Sheen. McGraw-Hill
6. A MAN CALLED PETER, by Catherine Marshall. McGraw-Hill
7. THIS I BELIEVE, ed. by Edward P. Morgan; foreword by Edward R. Murrow. Simon & Schuster
8. THE GREATEST FAITH EVER KNOWN, by Fulton Oursler and G. A. O. Armstrong. Doubleday
9. HOW TO PLAY YOUR BEST GOLF, by Tommy Armour. Simon & Schuster
10. A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME, by Polly Adler. Rinehart
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