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Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn, which held on top of the list for 13 weeks, and Stars on the Sea by F. Van Wyck Mason, which was on top of the list for 10 weeks.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The most popular books of the year were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith and Strange Fruit, by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A "sleeper" success, A Tree Grows had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot.
This is a list of lists by year of The New York Times number-one books . The New York Times Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931. [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 ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Seven books topped the list that year, the longest on top being The Green Years , which dominated the winter months (17 weeks). Other particularly popular titles included A Lion in the Streets (12 weeks on top), Captain from Castile (7 weeks) and The Black Rose (18 weeks ...
The most popular title was The Hucksters which spent much of the latter half of the year (19 weeks) at the top of the list and a total of 35 weeks among the top 15. During its reign at the top, it was challenged, but never toppled, by two recognized classics, George Orwell's Animal Farm and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men , neither of ...
1940. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley. Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch. Stars on the Sea by F. Van Wyck Mason. Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only three novels topped the list that year, which was dominated by Jacqueline Susann 's Valley of the Dolls which spent 28 weeks at the top of the list and 65 weeks in the top 10. Valley was toppled by Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria, a World War II story based ...
Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks. Date. Book.