This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly . [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959.
The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1947.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1948.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1950.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1951.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1952.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1954.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1955.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1956.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1957.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1958.
The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel. The year-long survey was the biggest single test of public reading taste to date, and culminated with several programmes hosted by celebrities, advocating their favourite books.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1940 through 1949.
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century.
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club. It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club. Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York in a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m2) office building that was constructed in 1906. It printed and distributed a variety of volumes in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. A victim of the Great Depression, the Book League of America was purchased by Doubleday in 1936.
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