# What was on the New York Times bestseller list when you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839 "2011-01-24T21:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/1 "2011-01-24T21:58:28Z")
[Here’s](http://www.biblioz.com/best_sellers.php?a=0&i=45624150) a cute little site that will tell you without hunting through the archive at NYT or hauling out the databases. (Note that it uses European dates.) I got a Judith Krantz novel I’ve never heard of (_Princess Daisy?_)at the top of my fiction list, which is kind of disappointing, but I also have James Herriot, John Le Carre, Tom Wolfe… and bizarrely, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, and Phil Donahue. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/2 "2011-01-24T22:10:30Z")
Arnold Schwarzenegger? Wow, you must be young! Fiction: 1 RAGTIME E. L. Doctorow 2 LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR Judith Rossner 3 SHOGUN James Clavell 4 THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Michael Crichton, 5 THE MONEYCHANGERS Arthur Hailey 6 CIRCUS Alistair MacLean 7 HUMBOLDT’S GIFT Saul Bellow 8 CURTAIN Agatha Christie 9 THE EAGLE HAS LANDED Jack Higgins 10 CENTENNIAL James Michener Non-fiction: 1 SYLVIA PORTER’S MONEY BOOK Sylvia Porter 2 BREACH OF FAITH Theodore H. White 3 TOTAL FITNESS Laurence E. Morehouse and Leonard Gross 4 TM: Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress, Harold H. Bloomfield, Michael Peter Cain and Dennis T. Jaffe 5 WINNING THROUGH INTIMIDATION Robert J. Ringer 6 MONEY John Kenneth Galbraith 7 THE SAVE YOUR LIFE DIET David Reuben, M.D 8 WITHOUT FEATHERS Woody Allen 9 THE ASCENT OF MAN J. Bronowski 10 THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR Paul Theroux Lots of fiction I’ve never hear of, an anachronistic Agatha Christie, and tons of books about money. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/3 "2011-01-24T22:10:44Z")
Hey, _Watership Down_! I liked that book! My Fiction list also features several pulp classics - \*Jaws, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy \*and \*The Dogs of War \*- but it’s actually the Nonfiction bestsellers on my date of birth that are more fascinating: they’re headed by two classics that helped bring down hated regimes: \*All the President’s Men \*and _The Gulag Archipelago_. Not a bad collection, all in all. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/4 "2011-01-24T22:15:48Z")
I’m not THAT young - I’m 30! It was _Arnold’s Bodyshaping for Women_ -[this](http://www.amazon.com/Arnolds-Bodyshaping-Women-Arnold-Schwarzenegger/dp/0671424793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295907318&sr=8-1) must be a later edition but the cover gave me a little giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/5 "2011-01-24T22:25:49Z")
Here are mine, from the week ending 08/18/1968: Fiction: 1 AIRPORT Arthur Hailey 2 COUPLES John Updike 3 TESTIMONY OF TWO MEN Taylor Caldwell 4 TOPAZ Leon Uris 5 TRUE GRIT Charles Portis 6 RED SKY AT MORNING Richard Bradford 7 MYRA BRECKINRIDGE Gore Vidal 8 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER William Styron 9 VANISHED Fletcher Knebel 10 HEAVEN HELP US! Herbert Tarr Non-Fiction: 1 THE MONEY GAME “Adam Smith” 2 THE RICH AND THE SUPER-RICH Ferdinand Lundberg 3 BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD Haim G. Ginott 4 IBERIA James A. Michener 5 THE RIGHT PEOPLE Stephen Birmingham 6 THE NAKED APE Desmond Morris 7 THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE J.J. Servan-Schreiber 8 OR I’LL DRESS YOU IN MOURNING Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre 9 THE DOCTOR’S QUICK WEIGHT LOSS DIET Irwin Maxwell Stillman and Samm Sinclair Baker 10 SOUL ON ICE Eldridge Cleaver ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/6 "2011-01-24T22:35:17Z")
Fiction: 1. Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver 2. By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens 3. Rally Round the Flag Boys! by Max Schulman 4. The White Witch, by Elizabeth Goudge 5. The Winthrop Woman, by Anya Seton 6. Some Came Running, by James Jones 7. North from Rome, by Helen MacInnes 8. Below the Salt, by Thomas B. Costain 9. Maggie-Now, by Betty Smith 10. Time and the Hour, by Howard Spring Non-Fiction (why only three?): 1. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, by Joan Kerr 2. Kids Say the Darndest Things! by Art Linkletter 3. Baruch: My Own Story, by Bernard M. Baruch ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/7 "2011-01-24T22:48:53Z")
I notice that the number three non-fiction book on my date of birth was Master and Johnson’s “Human Sexual Response”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/8 "2011-01-24T23:18:14Z")
#1 Fiction: James Michener’s “Hawaii” #1 Non-fiction: William Shirer’s “Rise & Fall of the Third Reich” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/9 "2011-01-24T23:30:43Z")
[Lots of fiction I’ve never heard of,](http://www.biblioz.com/best_sellers.php?a=2&i=45635628&BirthDate=31%2F12%2F1954&SendGreetings=) but the #1 nonfiction was \*The Power of Positive Thinking. \* ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/10 "2011-01-24T23:51:20Z")
#1 Fiction, “Up the Down Staircase” by Bel Kaufman (granddaughter of Shalom Aleichem). I’ve read it. “Poisen” was the idol of my schooldays. Ok, he wasn’t, but only because I hadn’t read it yet. Only other one on the list I’ve read was the #8 non-fiction, “The Italians” by Luigi Barzini (no relation to the fictional guy). Interesting book. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/11 "2011-01-25T00:16:55Z")
Fiction 1 THE CAINE MUTINY Herman Wouk 2 THE SILVER CHALICE Thomas B. Costain 3 THE HOUSES IN BETWEEN Howard Spring 4 MATADOR Barna Conrad 5 THE GOWN OF GLORY Agnes Sligh Turnbull 6 MY COUSIN RACHEL Daphne du Maurier 7 THE HIDDEN FLOWER Pearl S. Buck 8 THE CRUEL SEA Nicholas Monsarrat 9 CATHERINE CARTER Pamela Hansford Johnson 10 THE SHINING TIDES Win Brooks 11 THE SARACEN BLADE Frank Yer 12 SCALPEL Horace McCoy 13 THE GOLDEN HAND Edith Simon 14 THE ALEXANDRIANS Charles Mills 15 S P Q R Paul Hyde Bonner I’ve actually read #1, and it’s the only one that could be considered a classic (depending on your definition). I’ve heard of #8, but never saw it. Non-Fiction 1 WITNESS Whittaker Chambers 2 THE SEA AROUND US Rachel Carson 3 A MAN CALLED PETER Catherine Marshall 4 ANNE FRANK:THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL Anne Frank 5 WINDOWS FOR THE CROWN PRICE Elizabeth Gray Vining 6 POSTMARKED MOSCOW Lydia Kirk 7 JOURNEY TO THE FAR PACIFIC Thomas E. Dewey 8 THE THURBER ALBUM James Thurber 9 SUBMARINE Edward L. Beach 10 ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS Noel F. Busch 11 UNDER THE SEA-WIND Rachel Carson 12 U.S.A. CONFIDENTIAL Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer 13 THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR Harold Lamb 14 IN ONE EAR Eric Severeid 15 WINSTON CHURCHILL Robert Lewis Taylor I’ve read #1 and #4, the latter being the standout title on both lists. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/12 "2011-01-25T00:35:35Z")
I’ve got a real interesting list from my birth date (in the spring of 1962), full of both very famous authors and authors that are now totally forgotten. I mean, take a look at numbers 1 and 8 on the fiction list, and 4 and 5 on non-fiction. Fiction: 1 FRANNY AND ZOOEY J.D. Salinger 2 THE BULL FROM THE SEA Mary Renault 3 THE FOX IN THE ATTIC Richard Hughes 4 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Irving Stone 5 SHIP OF FOOLS Katherine Anne Porter 6 DEVIL WATER Anya Seton 7 A PROLOGUE TO LOVE Taylor Caldwell 8 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee 9 CAPTAIN NEWMAN M.D., Leo Calvin Rosten 10 CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED Edward Streeter 11 THE IVY TREE Mary Stewart 12 ISLAND Aldous Huxley 13 HORNSTEIN’S BOY Robert Traver 14 DAUGHTER OF SILENCE Morris L. West 15 PIGEON FEATHERS John Updike 16 KIRKLAND REVELS Victoria Holt Non-fiction: 1 CALORIES DON’T COUNT Herman Taller 2 MY LIFE IN COURT Louis Nizer 3 THE ROTHSCHILDS Frederic Morton 4 THE GUNS OF AUGUST Barbara W. Tuchman 5 SIX CRISES Richard Nixon 6 THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 Theodore H. White 7 IN THE CLEARING Robert Frost 8 THE LAST PLANTAGENETS Thomas B. Costain 9 SCOTT FITZGERALD Andrew Turnbull 10 CIA: THE INSIDE STORY Andrew Tully 12 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH William L. Shirer 13 BEFORE I SLEEP James Monahan 14 THE RICH NATIONS AND THE POOR NATIONS Barbara Ward 15 MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, Gayelord Hauser 16 A NATION OF SHEEP William J. Lederer ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/13 "2011-01-25T01:15:08Z")
Title Author Info Fiction 1 RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM CARPENTERS, J.D. Salinger author info Fiction 2 SEVEN DAYS IN MAY Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II author info Fiction 3 THE SAND PEBBLES Richard McKenna author info Fiction 4 FAIL-SAFE Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler author info Fiction 5 THE MOONSPINNERS Mary Stewart author info Fiction 6 TRIUMPH Philip Wylie author info Fiction 7 A SHADE OF DIFFERENCE Allen Drury author info Fiction 8 $100 MISUNDERSTANDING Robert Gover author info Fiction 9 THE MOONFLOWER VINE Jetta Carleton author info Fiction 10 THE CENTAUR John Updike author info Non-Fiction 1 TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY John Steinbeck author info Non-Fiction 2 HAPPINESS IS A WARM PUPPY Charles M. Schulz author info Non-Fiction 3 FINAL VERDICT Adela Rogers St. Johns author info Non-Fiction 4 THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT Hedda Hopper author info Non-Fiction 5 O YE JIGS & JULEPS! Virginia Cary Hudson author info Non-Fiction 6 THE FIRE NEXT TIME James Baldwin author info Non-Fiction 7 SILENT SPRING Rachel Carson author info Non-Fiction 8 MY LIFE IN COURT Louis Nizer author info Non-Fiction 9 POINTS OF MY COMPASS E.B. White author info Non-Fiction 10 THE FALL OF THE DYNASTIES I’ve only read _Silent Spring._ Oh, yeah. Also _Happiness Is A Warm Puppy._ ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/14 "2011-01-25T01:19:54Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > #1 Fiction, “Up the Down Staircase” by Bel Kaufman (granddaughter of Shalom Aleichem). I’ve read it. It had either fallen to #3, or was on its way up from #3 the week I was born. I read it too. It’s the only one on the list I’ve read. I read “Red Sky at Morning” in college and loved it. Great link,\*\* Zsofia\*\*! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/15 "2011-01-25T01:29:04Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I got a Judith Krantz novel I’ve never heard of (_Princess Daisy?_) _Princess Daisy_ (which was made into a miniseries starring Lindsey Wagner) is not Judith Krantz’s best, but oddly it has almost the identical plot to a recent bestseller, _The Memory Keeper’s Daughter_. My list has some true classics (_Happiness is a Warm Puppy_, _Travels with Charley_). It’s also nice to see _The Fire Next Time_ on top, since my birthday (and therefore this list) coincided with Martin Luther King’s _I Have a Dream_ speech. Albert Camus was on the bestseller list? 😕 Those were different times. Fiction THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN Morrs L. West ELIZABETH APPLETON John O’Hara CARAVANS James Michener CITY OF NIGHT John Rechy JOY IN THE MORNING Betty Smith THE COLLECTOR John Fowles THE GLASS BLOWERS Daphne du Maurier GRANDMOTHER AND THE PRIESTS Taylor Caldwell THE CONCUBINE Nora Lofts BRIDE OF PENDORRIC Victoria Holt Non-Fiction THE FIRE NEXT TIME James Baldwin I OWE RUSSIA $1200 Bob Hope MY DARLING CLEMENTINE Jack Fishman THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT Hedda Hopper THE DAY THEY SHOOK THE PLUM TREE Arthur H. Lewis HAPPINESS IS A WARM PUPPY Charles M. Schulz TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY John Steinbeck NOTEBOOKS 1935-1942 Albert Camus FRANCIS BACON Catherine Drinker Bowen THE WINE IS BITTER Milton S. Eisenhower ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/16 "2011-01-25T01:30:26Z")
Fiction 1 OLIVER’S STORY Erich Segal Fiction 2 TRINITY Leon Uris Fiction 3 THE CRASH OF '79 Paul E. Erdman Fiction 4 FALCONER John Cheever Fiction 5 RAISE THE TITANIC! Clive Cussler Fiction 6 HOW TO SAVE YOUR OWN LIFE Erica Jong Fiction 7 THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT Robert Ludlum Fiction 8 OCTOBER LIGHT John Gardner Fiction 9 THE USERS Joyce Haber Fiction 10 THE VALHALLA EXCHANGE Harry Patterson Non-Fiction 1 ROOTS Alex Haley Non-Fiction 2 YOUR ERRONEOUS ZONES Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Non-Fiction 3 PASSAGES Gail Sheehy Non-Fiction 4 THE GAMESMAN Michael Macco Non-Fiction 5 HAYWIRE Brooke Hayward Non-Fiction 6 CHANGING Liv Ullmann Non-Fiction 7 THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK Erma Brombeck Non-Fiction 8 THE HITE REPORT Shere Hite Non-Fiction 9 BLIND AMBITION John W. Dean III Non-Fiction 10 HOWARD HUGHES: The Hidden Years James Phelan So, how many of the books on your lists have you read? Out of the twenty, I’ve read two: Roots and The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank. On the other hand, I think I’d rather be beaten with a stick than read Oliver’s Story. One of my mom’s favorite “can you believe what my kid said?” stories is about giving me Love Story to read and asking me what I thought of it. I told her that the plotting and dialog were weak, and that there were a lot of grammatical errors. She says that’s how she already knew by the time I was twelve that I’d major in English in college 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/17 "2011-01-25T01:34:17Z")
**Love Story** (fiction) and **Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex** (non-fiction). Yes, really. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/18 "2011-01-25T01:40:36Z")
**Breakfast of Champions**! I totally win the thread. Also #2 and 3 on non-fiction are I’m OK, You’re OK and **The Joy of Sex**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/19 "2011-01-25T01:53:21Z")
Looks like **RealityChuck** and I must have been born somewhere near the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/20 "2011-01-25T02:15:21Z")
1 TRINITY Leon Uris 2 SLEEPING MURDER Agatha Christie 3 STORM WARNING Jack Higgins 4 RAISE THE TITANIC! Clive Cussler 5 SLAPSTICK Kurt Vonnegut 6 THE CRASH OF '79 Paul E. Erdman 7 CEREMONY OF THE INNOCENT Taylor Caldwell 8 BLUE SKIES, NO CANDY Gael Greene 9 THE USERS Joyce Haber 10 TOUCH NOT THE CAT Mary Stewart 1 ROOTS Alex Haley 2 PASSAGES Gail Sheehy 3 BLIND AMBITION John W. Dean III 4 YOUR ERRONEOUS ZONES Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 5 THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK Erma Bombeck 6 THE HITE REPORT Shere Hite 7 ADOLF HITLER John Toland 8 BLOOD AND MONEY Thomas Thompson 9 THE RIGHT AND THE POWER Leon Jaworski 10 TO JERUSALEM AND BACK Saul Bellow Never read any of them…never even heard of most of them - none, actually, aside from Trinity, and Roots… I obviously know who Agatha Christie, Kurt Vonnegut, Erma Bombeck, Saul Bellow and Clive Cussler are (well, were), but don’t think I’ve ever heard of those books. (Except for Christie and Vonnegut, I don’t think I could name _any_ specific book by any of them…) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839.md?page=2)