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  2. List of The New York Times number-one books of 1981

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    Book Author January 4: Cosmos: Carl Sagan: January 11 January 18 January 25: Crisis Investing: Douglas R. Casey: February 1 February 8 February 15: Cosmos: Carl Sagan: February 22 March 1 March 8: Never-Say-Diet Book: Richard Simmons: March 15 March 22: Cosmos: Carl Sagan: March 29 April 5: Never-Say-Diet Book: Richard Simmons: April 12 April ...

  3. Lists of The New York Times number-one books - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] It consisted of five fiction and four nonfiction for the New York City region only. [2] The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with a separate list for each city. [2] By the early 1940s, fourteen cities were included. A national list was created August 9, 1942, in The New York Times Book Review (Sundays) as a ...

  4. Janet Malcolm - Wikipedia

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    In his 1981 New York Times review, Joseph Edelson wrote that Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession "is an artful book", praising Malcolm’s "keen eye for the surfaces — clothing, speech and furniture — that express character and social role" (noting she was then the photography critic for The New Yorker). It succeeds because she has ...

  5. The Mismeasure of Man - Wikipedia

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    The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.The book is both a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups—primarily races, classes, and sexes—arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an ...

  6. Ned Vizzini - Wikipedia

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    A review in the New York Times Book Review said that Be More Chill, which is about a high school student named Jeremy Heere who gets a supercomputer pill in his brain that makes him cool, "is so accurate that it should come with a warning," adding that "If it weren't so funny, [Vizzini's] first novel might be too painful to read." [9]

  7. Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation - Wikipedia

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    Shout! was a bestselling book upon release in 1981, [4] and has since sold over a million copies. [5] Randolph Hogan of The New York Times described Shout! as "the definitive biography [of the Beatles] – comprehensive, intelligent, sensitively written and exhaustively researched", [6] while the Chicago Sun-Times lauded it as "the best, most detailed, and most serious biography of the Beatles ...

  8. Raymond Carver bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The New York Times Book Review, 15 February 1981 (as "A Storyteller's Shoptalk") ... about the rehabilitation of juvenile felons," as described by The New York Times. [5]

  9. The New York Times Best Seller list - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. List of best-selling books in the United States The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly since October 12, 1931. In the 21st century, it has evolved ...