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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 ...
The girls' comics trend took off in the latter half of the 1950s, with the long-running titles Bunty and Judy, as well as titles like Boyfriend and Princess, all debuting in the years 1956–1960. (British romance comics, marketed toward older teen girls and young women, also flourished from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Other than a few ...
Foxfire Books series, from the magazine of the same name, popular with the 1970s back-to-the-land movement; Steal this book, by yippie Abbie Hoffman, 1971, a guide to living with little or no money, and to living outside the rules of establishment culture; Our Bodies, Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1973
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1970 through 1975. [ 1 ] 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.
Cover of Women's Barracks (1950) by Tereska Torrès. The first paperback to address a lesbian relationship was published as early as 1950 with Women's Barracks by Tereska Torrès, published by Gold Medal Books. The story was a fictionalized account of Torres' experiences in the Free French Forces in London during World War II.
By the early 1950s, General Mills surveys showed that 99% of American housewives were familiar with the character. [7] First published on September 8, 1950, with an initial print run of 950,000 copies, [6] [2] as Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, the first edition sold for $2.95, with a $3.95 deluxe edition available. [6]
The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...
Janet and John is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in four volumes in 1949–50, and one of the first to make use of the "look and say" approach. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand.