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1950

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1varielle
Bewerkt: nov 12, 2007, 1:01 pm

1. The Cardinal, Henry Morton Robinson 40 copies on LT

2. Joy Street, Frances Parkinson Keyes 24 copies

3. Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway 299 copies

4. The Wall, John Hersey 96 copies

5. Star Money, Kathleen Winsor 13 copies

6. The Parasites, Daphne du Maurier 103 copies

7. Floodtide, Frank Yerby 13 copies

8. Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow 58 copies

9. The Adventurer, Mika Waltari 42 copies (See#3 below) Mikael Karvajalka

10. The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg 26 copies

Not a very popular year. Trying to fix screwball touchstones.

2MarianV
Bewerkt: nov 12, 2007, 11:26 am

What's interesting about this list is that over half of the books listed are by authors who had great sucess with previously written books (ie Kathleen Winsor Forever Amber John Hersey Bell for Adano ect. How many copies on this best sellers list were bought by readers anticipating a similar good read? Few of these books lived up to the standards of the authors' previous works -- Mika Waltari had a great hit & movie in The Egyptian but few Hemingway fans are aquainted with Across the river & into the trees (a title which was taken from the last words of gen. Stonewall Jackson) I read & enjoyed Jubilee trail Gwen Bristow's novel about women settlers of the old West. She was one of the newer writers.

3vpfluke
nov 12, 2007, 12:50 pm

Actually 42 LTers own "The Adventurer", but a majority of the copies are in Finnish under the title, Mikael Karvajalka -- there are 13 in English. On the works page is the French cover for the book, "L'Escholier de Dieu"!

4Shortride
nov 13, 2007, 1:00 am

I picked up a copy of The Parasites earlier this year, but I haven't read it.

5varielle
Bewerkt: feb 18, 2008, 10:02 am

US Non-Fiction

1. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book 155 copies on LT

2. The Baby ??? copies

3. Look Younger, Live Longer, Gayelord Hauser 9 copies

4. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, Frank Bettger 67 copies

5. Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl 686 copies

6. Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, Peter Marshall 79 copies

7. Your Dream Home: How to Build it For less Than $3,500, Hubbard Cobb 4 copies

8. The Mature Mind, H. A. Overstreet 14 copies

9. Campus Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr. 0 copies

10. Belles on Their Toes, Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 254 copies

6aviddiva
mrt 1, 2008, 7:05 pm

Don't you wish you could build your dream home for less than 3,500 today? I had a great illustrated version of Kon-Tiki as a kid, and I loved Belles on Their Toes, which is the sequel to Cheaper By The Dozen.

7barney67
apr 14, 2008, 8:38 pm

Kon-Tiki. That's it. A good one, though.

8jillmwo
apr 14, 2008, 8:46 pm

I own a copy of Joy Street even now and read both The Cardinal and Jubilee Trail as a teenager. I also read Belles on Their Toes. I enjoyed all of them.

9LouisBranning
apr 15, 2008, 8:17 pm

John Hersey's The Wall is an exceptional novel, as is the Hemingway book of stories, and Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted is pretty good, but not nearly as engaging as his What Makes Sammy Run?, one of the more enduring Hollywood novels. And Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki is an amazing book even after all these years.

10keren7
apr 23, 2008, 1:24 pm

I haven't read any of these

11oregonobsessionz
apr 24, 2008, 6:58 pm

Kon-Tiki holds up well. Haven't read any of the others.

12rocketjk
jan 2, 2010, 12:08 pm

I own the Hemingway but haven't read it yet. I read Kon-Tiki many, many years ago. By the way, I noted last week that the last living member of the Kon-Tiki crew passed away this recently. Can't recall the name right now, but this fascinating fellow was also a hero of the Norwegian resistance during World War II.

13jillmwo
jan 2, 2010, 12:24 pm

I just reread The Cardinal this weekend. It's terribly admiring of the male priesthood, Catholic institutions and hierarchy, but as a novel, the structure holds up. Much of it eluded me when I read it as an adolescent.

14vpfluke
jan 2, 2010, 1:10 pm

Looking at the two titles with no info. The # 2 book called "The Baby", was published by the editors of Simon and Schuster, and does not have any copies in LT as far as I can tell. Simon & Schuster does have a book named the Dancing Baby Flip Book, but I didn't check out its date.
Likewise, "Campus Zoo" still has no copies in LT. There are 71 copies in Worldcat, the closest public libary to me on Long Island that appears to have a freely circulating copy is in Cincinnati, some 280 miles away (and they have 4 -- of course, the Cincinnati Library is one of the best public libraries in the U.S.). Clare Barnes has published other books like White Collar Zoo and Home Sweet Zoo which are in LT. These I believe are pictorial books, and I imagine "The Baby" is too.
Maybe I should add them to my own library as part of my "Do Not Own" collection.

15vpfluke
jan 2, 2010, 1:13 pm

Well, the Dancing Baby Flip Book came out in 1998 and there are only three listed in Worldcat.

16vpfluke
jan 2, 2010, 1:14 pm

The Cardinal link above is wrong -- this one shoud be right and there are now 106 copies in LT.

17Storeetllr
jan 2, 2010, 1:21 pm

Ah, Kon Tiki! That title brings back such good memories. I read it twice as an adolescent and a teen and still have it (in storage). Time for a reread to see if it evokes the same magic in me today at the other end of my life.

18varielle
jan 4, 2010, 3:34 am

>12 rocketjk: & 17 - Your Kon-Tiki sailor was Knut Haugland who passed away on Xmas Day at the age of 92. I guess keeping the Nazis from obtaining heavy water for the bomb wasn't exciting enough for him. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/world/europe/27haugland.html?_r=1&ref=obit...

19vpfluke
Bewerkt: jan 6, 2010, 11:56 pm

I went ahead and did add Campus Zoo and The "Baby, a photographic inquiry into certain private opinions" to my collection "Do Not Own."

20adpaton
jul 12, 2010, 3:50 am

Kathleen Winsor - she wrote Forever Amber didn't she? Not just a one-book-wonder then.