Fiction Bestsellers

1. Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

2. Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

3. Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

4. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

5. Sholem Asch, The Nazarene

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

7. Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

8. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

9. Louis Bromfield, Night in Bombay

10. Nina Fedorova, The Family

Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1. Osa Johnson, I Married Adventure

2. Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book

3. Oscar Levant, A Smattering of Ignorance

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

5. Agnes Newton Keith, Land Below the Wind

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

7. Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer

8. Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him

9. Pierre van Paassen, Days of Our Years

10. Betty B. Blunt, Bet It’s a Boy

Jules Romains, Verdun

Zsolt de Harsányi, The Star-Gazer

Conrad Richter, The Trees

Richard Wright, Native Son

Elizabeth, Mr. Skeffington

Sir Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission

Osa Johnson, I Married Adventure

Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him

Harold Laski, The American Presidency

Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer

Margaret Armstrong, Trelawny

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Fiction Bestsellers

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

2. James Hilton, Random Harvest

3. Eric Knight, This Above All

4. Marguerite Steen, The Sun Is My Undoing

5. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

6. Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

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

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

9. Edna Ferber, Saratoga Trunk

10. Mary Ellen Chase, Windswept

Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol. 1

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

Joseph Davies, Mission to Moscow

James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Fomous Men

F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance

W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South

W. Lloyd Warner and Paul S. Lunt, The Social Life of a Modern Community

1. William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary

2. Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs

3. Jan Valtin, Out of the Night

4. John Gunther, Inside Latin America

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

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

7. Clifton Fadiman, ed., Reading I’ve Liked

8. Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington

9. Irvin S. Cob, Exit Laughing

10. Dirk van der Heide, My Sister and I

Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl

William Saroyan, My Name is Aram

Jan Valtin, Out of the Night

John Marquand, H. M. Pulham, Esquire

Gontran de Poincins, Kabloona

Gunnar Gunnarsson, The Good Shepherd

Winston Churchill, Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

Sally Benson, Junior Miss

William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary

A. J. Cronin, Keys of the Kingdom

Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land

Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington

John Gunther, Inside Latin America

T. R. Ybarra, Young Man of Caracas

George Steward, Storm

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette

2. John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

3. Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed

4. Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

5. Elizabeth Pickett, Drivin’ Woman

6. Mary Ellen Chase, Windswept

7. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

8. Marguerite Steen, The Sun Is My Undoing

9. Henry Bellamann, Kings Row

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

William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses

Albert Camus, The Stranger

Suzanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key

Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds

Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy

Margaret Mead, And Keep Your Powder Dry

Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps

Beryl Markham, West with the Night

1. Marion Hargrove, See Here, Private Hargrove

2. Joseph E. Davies, Mission to Moscow

3. Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris

4. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

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

6. Ilka Chase, Past Imperfect

7. W. L. White, They Were Expendable

8. Antoine de St. Exupéry, Flight to Arras

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

10. John Gunther, Inside Latin America

Arthur Meeker, Jr., The Ivory Mischief

Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed

Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea

John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

Raoul de Roussy de Sales, The Making of Tomorrow
Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette

 Alexander P. de Seversky, Victory through Air Power

Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust

Robert Trumbell, The Raft

Gertrude Diamant, The Days of Ofelia

Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross

W. L. White, They Were Expendable

LeGrand Cannon, Jr., Look to the Mountain

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

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

2. Marcia Davenport, The Valley of Decision

3. John P. Marquand, So Little Time

4. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

5. William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

6. Louis Bromfield, Mrs. Parkington

7. Sholem Asch, The Apostle

8. Daphne du Maurier, Hungry Hill

9. Hervey Allen, The Forest and the Fort

10. Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette

Reinhold Niebuhr, Nature and Destiny of Man, vol. 2

Carey McWilliams, Brothers under the Skin

Wendell Willkie, One World

C. L. Hull. Principles of Behavior

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Isabel Patterson, God of the Machine

1. John Roy Carlson, Under Cover

2. Wendell L. Willkie, One World

3. Eve Curie, Journey Among Warriors

4. Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person

5. Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary

6. Lt. Col. Gordon Seagrave, Burma Surgeon

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

8. Walter Lippmann, U. S. Foreign Policy

9. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War

10. Marion Hargrove, See Here, Private Hargrove

Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands

Norman Angell, Let the People Know

Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary

William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

Berry Fleming, Colonel Effingham’s Raid

Bernard De Voto, The Year of Decision: 1846

Mark Aldanov, The Fifth Seal

Isak Dinesen, Winter’s Tales

Hilary A. St. George Sanuders, Combined Operations

Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

Walter Lippmann, U. S. Foreign Policy

John C. Miller, Origins of the American Revolution

Capt. Ted W. Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

John Marquand, So Little Time

Etta Shiber, Paris-Underground

Corp. Thomas St. George, c/o Postmaster

Ralph Ingersoll, The Battle is the Pay-Off

Katharine Butler Hathaway, The Little Locksmith

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Lillian Smith, Strange Fruit

2. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

3. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

4. Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber

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

6. A. J. Cronin, The Green Years

7. Ben Ames Williams, Leave Her to Heaven

8. Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

9. John Hersey, A Bell for Adano

10. Sholem Asch, The Apostle

Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma

David Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation

Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

C. L. Stevenson, Ethics and Language

Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Helene Deutsch, Psychology of Women

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

1. Bob Hope, I Never Left Home

2. Ernie Pyle, Brave Men

3. Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince

4. John Roy Carlson, Under Cover

5. Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus

6. Sumner Welles, The Time for Decision

7. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War

8. Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

9. Quentin Reynolds, The Curtain Rises

10. Joseph C. Grew, Ten Years in Japan

E. Arnot Robertson, The Signpost

George Santayana, Persons and Places

Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer

Ludwig Bemelmans, Now I Law Me Down to Sleep

Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather

Zofia Kossak, Blessed Are the Meek

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus

H. E. Bates, Fair Stood the Wind for France

James Norman Hall, Lost Island

Thomas Mann, Joseph the Provider

Sumner Welles, The Time for Decision

Margery Sharp, Cluny Brown

Nevil Shute, Pastoral

Van Wyck Brooks, The World of Washington Irving

Harold G. Maulton and Louis Marlio, Control of Germany and Japan

Herbert Best, Young ‘Un

Denis Brogan, The American Character

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber

2. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

3. Thomas B. Costain, The Black Rose

4. James Ramsey Ullman, The White Tower

5. Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane

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

7. James Hilton, So Well Remembered

8. Samuel Shellabarger, Captain from Castile

9. Adria Locke Langley, Earth and High Heaven

10. Irving Stone, Immortal Wife

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Henry Green, Loving

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

Vannevar Bush, Science—The Endless Frontier

T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

1. Ernie Pyle, Brave Men

2. Juliet Lowell, Dear Sir

3. Bill Mauldin, Up Front

4. Richard Wright, Black Boy

5. Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me

6. George and Helen Papashvily, Anything Can Happen

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

8. Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I

9. James Thurber, The Thurber Carnival

10. Louis Bromfield, Pleasant Valley

Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State

George and Helen Papashvily, Anything Can Happen

James Thurber, The Thurber Carnival

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens
Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source

Ira Wolfert, American Guerrilla in the Philippines

C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower

Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith

Bill Mauldlin, Up Front

Lau Shaw, Rickshaw Boy

James Ramsey Ullman, The White Tower

Sinclair lewis, Cass Timberlane

Constantin Simonov, Days and Nights

Peter Bowman, Beach Red

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Daphne du Maurier, The King’s General

2. Taylor Caldwell, This Side of Innocence

3. Frances Parkinson Keyes, The River Road

4. Russell Janney, The Miracle of the Bells

5. Frederic Wakeman, The Hucksters

6. Frank Yerby, The Foxes of Harrow

7. Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

8. Thomas B. Costain, The Black Rose

9. John P. Marquand, B. F.’s Daughter

10. Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit

Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men

Benjamin Spock, Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Hans Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism

John Hersey, Hiroshima

James B. Conant, Understanding Science

Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (posthumous)

Peter F. Drucker, Concept of the Corporation

Erich Auerbach, Mimesis

1. Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I

2. Joshua L. Liebman, Peace of Mind

3. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It

4. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew

5. Ernie Pyle, Last Chapter

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

7. Victor Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom

8. Emery Reves, The Anatomy of Peace

9. Ralph Ingersoll, Top Secret

10. Gene Fowler, A Solo in Tom-Toms

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

The Autobiogarphy of William Allen White

Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit

Jim Corbett, Man-Easters of Kumaon

Capt. Harry Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower

Frederic Wakeman, The Hucksters

Margery Sharp, Britannia Mews

Halldór Laxness, Independent People

Chistopher LaFarge, The Sudden Guest

George Orwell, Animal Farm

T. H. White, Mistress Masham’s Repose

Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder out of China

John Hersey, Hiroshima

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Russell Janney, The Miracle of the Bells

2. Thomas B. Costain, The Moneyman

3. Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement

4. Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey

5. Frank Yerby, The Vixens

6. John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus

7. Ben Ames Williams, House Divided

8. Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal

9. Marcia Davenport, East Side, West Side

10. Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (written 1944)

Lionel Trilling, Middle of the Journey

Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight, Moon

Paul Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

1. Joshua L. Liebman, Peace of Mind

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

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

4. Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History

5. James F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly

6. Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, Human Destiny

7. Betty MacDonald, The Egg and I

8. Roger Butterfield, The American Past

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

10. Katharine T. Marshall, Together

Pierre Andézel, The Angelic Avengers

Eric Hodgins, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Paul M. Angle, ed., The Lincoln Reader

John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus

Agnes Newton Keith, Three Came Home

Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn

John Fischer, Why They Behave Like Russians

John Gunther, Inside U.S.A.

Natalie Anderson Scott, The Story of Mrs. Murphy

Thomas B. Costain, The Moneyman

H. R. Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler

Bruce Marshall, Vespers in Vienna

Thomas W. Buncan, Gus the Great

Charles F. Ramuz, When the Mountain Fell

Walter Karig, Zotz!

Bill Mauldin, Back Home

Valeniten Davies, Miracle on 34th Street

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman

2. Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

3. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Dinner at Antoine’s

4. Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Bishop’s Mantle

5. Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better

6. Frank Yerby, The Golden Hawk

7. Ross Lockridge Jr., Raintree County

8. A. J. Cronin, Shannon’s Way

9. Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim’s Inn

10. Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

B. F. Skinner, Walden Two

Norbert Wiener, Control and Connection

James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

Alfred Kinsey et al., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition

Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm

Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain

William Vogt, Road to Survival
Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country

Paul Samuelson, Economics

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe

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

3. Joshua L. Liebman, Peace of Mind

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

5. Billy Rose, Wine, Women and Words

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

7. Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm

8. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins

9. Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living

10. Betty MacDonald, The Plague and I

Ross Lockridge, Jr., Raintree Country

Carl Van Doren, The Great Rehearsal

Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March

Josephine Pinkney, The Great Mischief

George Stewart, Fire

Louis P. Lochner, ed., The Goebbels Diaries

Margery Sharp, The Foolish Gentlewoman

Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

C. S. Forester, The Sky and the Forest

William Vogt, Road to Survival

Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will be Better

Esther Forbes, The Running of the Tide

Somerset Maugham, Cataline

Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

Dwight Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe

Fiction Bestsellers

1. Mika Waltari, The Egyptian

2. Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman

3. Sholem Asch, Mary

4. John O’Hara, A Rage to Live

5. John P. Marquand, Point of No Return

6. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Dinner at Antoine’s

7. Thomas B. Costain, High Towers

8. Van Wyck Mason, Cutlass Empire

9. Frank Yerby, Pride’s Castle

10. Edward Streeter, Father of the Bride

Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center

L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics  

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

1. Clare Barnes Jr., White Collar Zoo

2. Oswald Jacoby, How to Win at Canasta

3. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

4. Clare Barnes Jr., Home Sweet Zoo

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

6. Fulton Oursler, The Greatest Story Ever Told

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

8. Josephine Artayeta de Viel and Ralph Michael, Canasta

9. Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul

10. Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living

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

Fred Gipson, Hound-Dog Man

R. C. Hutchinson, Elephant and the Castle

Francis Faither, Double Muscadine

Winston Churchill, Their Finest Hour

Pearl S. Buck, Kinfolk

Edward Streeter, Father of the Bride

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

John Gunther, Behind the Curtain

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Vincent Sheean, Lead Kindly Light

H. A. Oversteret, The Mature Mind

Theodore Bonnet, The Mudlark

Mika Waltari, The Egyptian

A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Way West

Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember