Best Selling Novels of the 1950's Books

Best Selling Novels of the 1950's

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A list of the best selling novels in the US during the 1950's as reported by Publishers Weekly. This list ranges from 1950 through 1959. All types of novels have been included and each of them has made it into the top ten. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading is hot again. The best selling novels on this list were the most popular books in the United States during the 50's, so you can be sure they're well written and enjoyable (depending, of course, on your preferred literary genre). This list is intended to help long-time readers and newcomers alike with discovering (and rediscovering) some of the best selling novels of all time.
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  1. 26
    Kay Thompson
    Year in the Top Ten: 1957
  2. 27
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    Exodus

    Leon Uris
    Year in the Top Ten: 1959
  3. 28
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    Floodtide

    Frank Yerby
    Year in the Top Ten: 1950
  4. 29
    James Jones
    Years in the Top Ten: 1951, 1953
  5. 30
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    From the Terrace

    John O'Hara
    Year in the Top Ten: 1958
  6. 31

    Giant

    Edna Ferber
    Year in the Top Ten: 1952
  7. 32

    Hawaii

    James A. Michener
    Year in the Top Ten: 1959
  8. 33
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    Ice Palace

    Edna Ferber
    Year in the Top Ten: 1958
  9. 34
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    Joy Street

    Frances Parkinson Keyes
    Year in the Top Ten: 1950
  10. 35

    Jubilee Trail

    Gwen Bristow
    Year in the Top Ten: 1950
  11. 36
    D. H. Lawrence
    Year in the Top Ten: 1959
  12. 37
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
    Years in the Top Ten: 1958, 1959
  13. 38
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    Lord Vanity

    Year in the Top Ten: 1953
  14. 39
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    LOVE IS ETERNAL

    Irving Stone
    Year in the Top Ten: 1954
  15. 40

    Marjorie Morningstar

    Herman Wouk
    Year in the Top Ten: 1955
  16. 41
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    Mary Anne

    Daphne du Maurier
    Year in the Top Ten: 1954
  17. 42
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    Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.

    Year in the Top Ten: 1951
  18. 43
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    Moses

    Sholem Asch
    Year in the Top Ten: 1951
  19. 44
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    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Year in the Top Ten: 1959
  20. 45

    My Cousin Rachel

    Daphne du Maurier
    Year in the Top Ten: 1952
  21. 46
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    Never Victorious, Never Defeated

    Taylor Caldwell
    Year in the Top Ten: 1954
  22. 47

    No Time for Sergeants

    Mac Hyman
    Years in the Top Ten: 1954, 1955
  23. 48
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    Morton Thompson
    Years in the Top Ten: 1954, 1955
  24. 49
    Nevil Shute
    Year in the Top Ten: 1957
  25. 50
    Grace Metalious
    Years in the Top Ten: 1956, 1957

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