What was a top selling book the year you were born?

[Breeze54]

'McCarthy and His Enemies' by William F. Buckley, L. Brent Bozell

You can look it up here-> http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

Go to the bottom and enter a year.

[mwdem]

1. The Catcher in the Rye, and The Caine Mutiny, among others.

God, I'm old!

[Breeze54]

2. LOL.... me too!!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

3. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

[FloridaJudy]

4. Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl"

Saul Bellow's "The Victim"
Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano"

I'm older than dirt (but younger than John Mc$ame).

[Texasgal]

5. Here:

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[SeattleGirl]

6. Marjorie Morningstar, by Herman Wouk

Don't think I've ever read it.

[femmocrat]

11. I read it a long time ago... It was also a movie

with Natalie Wood, I think.

[SeattleGirl]

12. The movie came out in 1958

And yes, Natalie Wood was in it, as was Gene Kelly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051911/

[Raven]

7. Benjamin Spock, Robert Penn Warren and Evelyn Waugh...

"The Commor Sense Book of Baby and Child Care"

"All the King's Men"

"Brideshead Revisited"

[bigwillq]

8. The World According to Garp

by John Irving

[Call Me Wesley]

9. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. (nt)

[Connonym]

28. It appears we are the same age

or else it was a best seller more than one year

[Call Me Wesley]

29. I looked for 1966. ;)

:hug:

[Tikki]

10. My mother was rather trendy....this book...

Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living.


Tikki

[bertha katzenengel]

13. _Happiness is a Warm Puppy_, Charles M. Schultz

also - these are the ones that made me say, "jeez!"

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

[mitchum]

14. "Candide"

I'm a bit older than I look

[yardwork]

31. LOL!

I think you're older than McCain.

[livetohike]

15. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

:-) We share the same birthdate, too July 21.

[RetroLounge]

16. Catch—22

Joseph Heller, Catch—22
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Lewis Mumford, The City in History
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

:hi:

RL

[Iggo]

17. Catch 22? Tropic Of Cancer?

It doesn't really say what the top selling book is...or I just can't find the info.

The scary part is I may be Carl Jung reincarnated. Either him or Chico Marx.

[From The Ashes]

18. Whatever it was...

...it was probably written on papyrus...:rofl:

[Tim314159]

19. I know it was NOT "Contraception for Dummies" (nt)

[hellbound-liberal]

20. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac and um.. oh yeah Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Also, Barack Obama was born on my third birthday!

[Glorfindel]

21. W. H. Auden, The Collected Poems

I guess the world had other concerns than reading in 1945...

* W. H. Auden, The Collected Poems
* Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville
* F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up and Other Uncollected Pieces
* John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
* Richard Wright, Black Boy

[yellowdogintexas]

22. From 1948 * I KNOW I have actually read the book.

1948
# Title Author
1. The Big Fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas *
2. The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
3. Dinner at Antoine's Frances Parkinson Keyes *
4. The Bishop's Mantle Agnes Sligh Turnbull
5. Tomorrow Will Be Better Betty Smith
6. The Golden Hawk Frank Yerby *
7. Raintree County Ross Lockridge, Jr.
8. Shannon's Way A. J. Cronin
9. Pilgrim's Inn Elizabeth Goudge
10. The Young Lions Irwin Shaw

[RebelOne]

23. The Yearling, by Margaret Kinnan Rawlings

[hobbit709]

24. The Martian Chronicles

[Heidi]

25. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. One of my favorite novels ever. (nt)

[DarkTirade]

26. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children and John Updike, Rabbit is Rich

I have not read either.

Hmm... according to that site, MrScorpio's great-uncle died the year I was born. And coincidentally, I found out when I clicked on his name, he shares a birthday with the composer I was named after. Go figure.

[bikebloke]

27. I've read one of them

* James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pictures of a Gone World
* William Gaddis, The Recognitions
* Mary McCarthy, A Charmed Life
* Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
* Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
* Isaac Bashevis Singer, Satan in Goray

[yardwork]

30. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

A bunch of African countries gained their independence, Psycho was released, and Emily Post died. Oh, and JFK was elected.

Politically, it's been all downhill since them. Maybe I'm the anti-Christ!

[ceile]

32. Humboldt's Gift, Ragtime n/t