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The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only four books topped the list that year, the list being dominated for 34 weeks by John le Carré's spy novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The prolific novelist Louis Auchincloss had his only No. 1 bestseller that year (and only for one week at the top, though it lasted ...
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Lloyd Alexander – The Book of Three [10] Rev. W. Awdry – Mountain Engines (nineteenth in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Nina Bawden – On the Run (also Three on the Run) Christianna Brand – Nurse Matilda; Hesba Fay Brinsmead – Pastures of the Blue Crane; Jeff Brown – Flat Stanley
Novelization of Marooned, written in 1969 by Martin Caidin and based on the movie of the same name. In 1969 a film based on the novel, also entitled Marooned, was released. The year coincided with the first Moon landings and public interest in human space flight was high. By 1969 both the Mercury and Gemini programs had passed into history.
The book was written at the time when the Civil Rights Movement was at its peak and the issue of Black Americans' equality high on the American agenda. However, it was published prior to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 , so the notion of an African-American man running for and being elected President ...