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List Of The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers
This is a list of lists by year of ''The New York Times'' fiction best sellers. ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931.''The New York Times''. October 12, 1931. p. 19. It consisted of five fiction and four nonfiction for the New York City region only. The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with a separate list for each city. By the early 1940s, fourteen cities were included. This list of lists only cover the New York list before 1942. A national list was created April 9, 1942, in ''The New York Times Book Review'' (Sundays) as a supplement to the regular paper's city lists (Monday edition). The national list ranked by weighting how many times the book appeared in each city list. A few years later, the city lists were eliminated leaving only the national rankings, which was compiled according to "reports from leading booksellers in 22 cities," a system which remains, although the specifics have chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1943
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1943. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only three titles topped the list in 1943. The most popular was ''The Robe'', by Lloyd Douglas, which started the year at the top of the list and only dropped to number two for one week in March to '' Mrs. Parkington'', by Louis Bromfield, before finally ceding the top spot to ''So Little Time'', by John P. Marquand, in mid-October. Marquand's satirical novel stayed at the top of the list for the rest of the year. After ''The Robe'' was toppled, it still remained near the top of the chart for two more years. Thus very early in the history of the NYT best seller list, ''The Robe'' set the record as the adult fiction title with the longest run on the list, and it continued to hold the record at least until 1992. The book returned to the bestseller list in 1953 when a film of the same name was released. By 1975, ''The Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1956
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1956. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1956/ref> Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ... . New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1955
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1955. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1955 . New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1954
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1954. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1954/ref> Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1954 . New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1953
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1953. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ... . New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1952
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1952. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1952/ref> Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ... . New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1951
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1951. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1951/ref> Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ... . New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books New York Times number-one books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1950
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1950. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Henry Morton Robinson's ''The Cardinal'' dominated the list for 24 weeks and Ernest Hemingway had his only Number 1 bestseller that year. John Bear, ''The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago'', Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992, pp. 43-47 Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s References {{NYT number-one books 1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ... . Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1949
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1949. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only four novels topped the list that year, which was dominated by John P. Marquand's ''Point of No Return'' which spent 22 straight weeks at the top of the list though it only lasted 34 weeks in the top 15 overall. Marquand's book is notable for its lampooning of W. Lloyd Warner, an anthropologist with whom Marquand had a personal grudge. ''Point of No Return'' was toppled by John O'Hara's ''Rage To Live'', which spent 6 weeks at the top. That book stayed in the top five for another 20 weeks but the remainder of the year was dominated by ''The Egyptian'' by the Finnish author Mika Waltari Mika Toimi Waltari (; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel '' The Egyptian'' ( fi, Sinuhe egyptiläinen). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1948
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped ''The New York Times'' Fiction Best Seller list in 1948. The American publisher Bennett Cerf noted that there had been "only three novels published n 1948that were worth reading ... ''Cry, The Beloved Country'', ''The Ides of March'', and ''The Naked and the Dead''."(No author.) "Reader's digest: Gossip, news: J. F. Albright reports on A.B.A. meeting," ''The Dallas Morning News'', 30 May 1948, page 6. Only ''Cry'' did not top the list that year. A total of ten other novels did, however, with most titles spending only a few weeks at the top. The strongest performing title was ''The Naked and the Dead'', Norman Mailer's first best seller, published when he was just 25 years old, which spent 19 weeks at Number 1 and more than 6 months in the top 10. It was the first "big" novel about World War II, based on his own experiences. ''The Ides of March'' was by Thornton Wilder and it spent 2 weeks at Number 1 but only 13 weeks in the top 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers Of 1947
This is a list of books that topped ''The New York Times'' best-seller list in 1947. Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only six books topped the list that year. The most popular titles were ''Gentlemen's Agreement'' (14 weeks) and ''House Divided'', which spent much of the last quarter of the year at the top of the list and a total of 15 weeks at the top overall. Two other novels, ''Lydia Bailey'' and ''The Moneymen'' each spent 12 weeks at the top. Sinclair Lewis had his only No. 1 bestseller that year (at least since the list went national in 1942). John Bear, ''The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago'', Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992. pp. 27-31 Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books. See also * ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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