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Top Ten Best Sellers for the Years 1950 to 1959
1950
The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
Joy Street by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
The Wall by John Hersey
Star Money by Kathleen Winsor
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
Floodtide by Frank Yerby
Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow
The Adventurer by Mika Waltari
The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg1951
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Moses by Sholem Asch
The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
A Woman Called Fancy by Frank Yerby
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand
Return to Paradise by James A. Michener
The Foundling by Cardinal Spellman
The Wanderer by Mika Waltari1952
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Giant by Edna Ferber
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Gown of Glory by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
The Saracen Blade by Frank Yerby
The Houses in Between by Howard Spring1953
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
Desiree by Annemarie Selinko
Battle Cry by Leon M. Uris
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann
Beyond This Place by A. J. Cronin
Time and Time Again by James Hilton
Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger
The Unconquered by Ben Ames Williams1954
Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson
Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
Love Is Eternal by Irving Stone
The Royal Box by Frances Parkinson Keyes
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso
Never Victorious, Never Defeated by Taylor Caldwell
Benton's Row by Frank Yerby1955
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
Something of Value by Robert Ruark
Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson
No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain
Ten North Frederck by John O'Hara1956
Don't Go Near the Water by William Brinkley
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan
The Tribe That Lost Its Head by Nicholas Monsarrat
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts1957
By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Compulsion by Meyer Levin
Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman
Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand1958
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
From the Terrace by John O'Hara
Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson
Ice Palace by Edna Ferber
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
The Enemy Camp by Jerome Weidman
Victorine by Frances Parkinson Keyes1959
Exodus by Leon Uris
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Hawaii by James A. Michener
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Ugly American by Eugene L. Burdick
Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Poor No More by Robert Ruark