Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Bestselling Books of 1959

HOW MANY OF THESE DID YOU READ?

F I C T I O N

    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

N O N F I C T I O N

    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

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Read five of the first six fiction.

Jim P

mybillcrider said...

I've read six of the ten.