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This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1955. Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. [1]
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.
February 8 – Jin Yong's first wuxia novel, The Book and the Sword (書劍恩仇錄), begins publication in the New Evening Post (Hong Kong), where he is an editor.; March 3 – Jean Cocteau is elected to the Académie française (inducted October 20); on January 8 he has been elected to the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (inducted October 1).
Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight.The series consists of Eloise (1955) and four sequels.. Eloise is a young girl who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel in New York City with her nanny, her pug dog, Weenie, and her turtle, Skipperdee.
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.
The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene.. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Pages in category "1955 American novels" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Address: Centauri;
Pages in category "1955 novels" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Book and the Sword; C.