# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/21 "2011-01-25T02:23:22Z")
I’m about four months older than **Katriona** Fiction 1 AIRPORT Arthur Hailey Fiction 2 MYRA BRECKINRIDGE Gore Vidal Fiction 3 VANISHED Fletcher Knebel Fiction 4 COUPLES John Updike Fiction 5 THE TOWER OF BABEL Morris West Fiction 6 TOPAZ Leon Uris Fiction 7 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER William Styron Fiction 8 CHRISTY Catherine Marshall Fiction 9 THE EXHIBITIONIST Henry Sutton Fiction 10 THE PRESIDENT’S PLANE IS MISSING Robert J. Serling Non-Fiction 1 THE NAKED APE Desmond Morris Non-Fiction 2 BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD Haim G. Ginott Non-Fiction 3 NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA Robert K. Massie Non-Fiction 4 THE DOUBLE HELIX James Watson Non-Fiction 5 “OUR CROWD”: THE GREAT JEWISH FAMILIES OF NEW YORK 5 “OUR CROWD”: THE GREAT JEWISH FAMILIES OF NEW YORK, Stephen Birmingham Non-Fiction 6 GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD Francis Chichester Non-Fiction 8 THE ENGLISH David Frost and Antony Jay Non-Fiction 9 KENNEDY AND JOHNSON Evelyn Lincoln Non-Fiction 10 RICKENBACKER Edward V. Rickenbacker ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/22 "2011-01-25T02:33:37Z")
I’ve got To Kill a Mockingbird and The Winter of our Discontent. Non Fiction #1 is The Making of the President, by Theodore White. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/23 "2011-01-25T02:48:04Z")
#1 Fiction: Chesapeake by James Michener #1 Non-Fiction: Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford. The only book on either list I’ve read is The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/24 "2011-01-25T03:41:18Z")
A pretty good list 1 FRANNY AND ZOOEY J.D. Salinger 2 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Irving Stone 3 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee 4 THE CARPETBAGGERS Harold Robbins 5 MILA 18 Leon Uris 6 THE EDGE OF SADNESS Edwin O’Connor 7 CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS Carson McCullers 8 THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT John Steinbeck 9 TROPIC OF CANCER Henry Miller 10 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Sheila Burnford 1 THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 Theodore H. White 2 A NATION OF SHEEP William J. Lederer 3 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH William L. Shirer 4 INSIDE EUROPE TODAY John Gunther 5 CITIZEN HEARST W.A. Swanberg 7 RING OF BRIGHT WATER Gavin Maxwell 8 THE AGE OF REASON BEGINS Will and Ariel Durant 9 KIDNAP George Waller 10 RUSSIA AND THE WEST UNDER LENIN AND STALIN George F. Kennan ---
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Here’s what was on the bestseller list the week I was born: Fiction 1 HERZOG Saul Bellow 2 HURRY SUNDOWN K.B. Gilden 3 FUNERAL IN BERLIN Len Deighton 4 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVENTH VIRGIN Victoria Holt 5 THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN Louis Auchincloss 6 A COVENANT WITH DEATH Stephen Becker 7 THE ORDWAYS William Humphrey 8 THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY John O’Hara 9 THIS ROUGH MAGIC Mary Stewart 10 THE MAN Irving Wallace Non-Fiction 1 MARKINGS Dag Hammarskjöld 2 THE FOUNDING FATHER Richard J. Whalen 3 REMINISCENCES Douglas MacArthur 4 QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO SUCCEED Elizabeth Longford 5 THE ITALIANS Luigi Barzini 6 MY SHADOW RAN FAST Bill Sands 7 SIXPENCE IN HER SHOE Phyllis McGinley 8 LIFE WITH PICASSO Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake 9 THE WORDS Jean-Paul Sartre 10 THE KENNEDY YEARS Harold Faber ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/26 "2011-01-25T04:14:18Z")
Ones I’ve read on my list: Fiction #3 _Caravans_ James Michener #5 _The Living Reed_ Pearl S Buck #7 \*On Her Majesty’s Secret Service \*Ian Fleming #9 \*The Three Sirens \*Irving Wallace #10 _Ice Station Zebra Alistair MacLean Non-Fiction #1 Profiles in Courage_ John F Kennedy #6 _Security is a Thumb and A Blanket_ Charles M. Schulz #7 \*Confessions of an Advertising \*Man David Ogilvy ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/27 "2011-01-25T04:45:54Z")
BTW Zsofia cool link. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/28 "2011-01-25T04:53:43Z")
Fun link, thanks! Several I’ve never heard of, but I loved seeing that Minority Report\* by H.L. Mencken is on the list. Too bad it wasn’t number 1. I read some quotes and kinda got a crush on him. Even if I don’t agree with everything he said, I admire his balls for saying it all. I wonder if it was on the way up or on the way down. I also liked that Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis, A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren, Profiles In Courage by John F. Kennedy and The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill are listed. As a Kate Bush fan it was fun to see something called “The Ninth Wave” on there too. #1 Fiction: DON’T GO NEAR THE WATER William Brinkley #1 Non-fiction: EISENHOWER Robert J. Donovan (List in spoiler tags because I’m too lazy to clean the copy and paste up) [spoiler]Fiction 1 DON’T GO NEAR THE WATER William Brinkley author info Fiction 2 THE LAST HURRAH Edwin O’Connor author info Fiction 3 THE MANDARINS Simone de Beauvoir author info Fiction 4 A THING OF BEAUTY A.J. Cronin author info Fiction 5 A SINGLE PEBBLE John Hersey author info Fiction 6 ANDERSONVILLE MacKinlay Kantor author info Fiction 7 AUNTIE MAME Patrick Dennis author info Fiction 8 CHARMED CIRCLE Susan Ertz author info Fiction 9 THE ROSEMARY TREE Elizabeth Goudge author info Fiction 10 IMPERIAL WOMAN Pearl S. Buck author info Fiction 11 THE NINTH WAVE Eugene Burdick author info Fiction 12 THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH Honor Tracy author info Fiction 13 A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Nelson Algren author info Fiction 14 A CERTAIN SMILE Francoise Sagan author info Fiction 15 PEMMICAN Vardis Fisher author info Fiction 16 THE HALF-CROWN HOUSE Helen Ashton author info Non-Fiction 1 EISENHOWER Robert J. Donovan author info Non-Fiction 2 ARTHRITIS AND COMMON SENSE Dale Alexander author info Non-Fiction 3 GUESTWARD HO! Patrick Dennis and Barbara Hooton author info Non-Fiction 4 THE BIRTH OF BRITAIN Winston S. Churchill author info Non-Fiction 5 PROFILES IN COURAGE John F. Kennedy author info Non-Fiction 6 LOVE OR PERISH Smiley Blanton author info Non-Fiction 7 HOW TO LIVE 365 DAYS A YEAR John A. Schindler author info Non-Fiction 8 GIFT FROM THE SEA Anne Morrow Lindbergh author info Non-Fiction 9 YOUTH Frances Ilg, Arnold Gesell and Louise Ames author info Non-Fiction 10 NOBLESSE OBLIGE Nancy Mitford author info Non-Fiction 11 MINORITY REPORT H.L. Mencken author info Non-Fiction 12 THE AGE OF FIGHTING SAIL C.S. Forester author info Non-Fiction 13 BAY WINDOW BOHEMIA Oscar Lewis author info Non-Fiction 14 OLYMPIO Andre Maurois author info Non-Fiction 15 THE MIND GOES FORTH H.A. Overstreet author info Non-Fiction 16 GRAY FOX Burke Davis[/spoiler] - Quotes from Minority Report: [spoiler]“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” “Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.” “The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century.” “God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.” “The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man – say a Tennessee Holy Roller – is really very small.” “The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.” “The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk.” “Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.” “It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.” “The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.” [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/29 "2011-01-25T04:56:49Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > 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.) From my 1961 list, I’ve only read two: “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Profiles in Courage.” ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/30 "2011-01-25T08:14:13Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > **Love Story** (fiction) and **Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex** (non-fiction). > > Yes, really. We must have been born near the same week. Mine are **Love Story** (fiction, of course) and \*\* The Sensuous Woman\*\* (non-fiction) with **Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex** (non-fiction) at #2. Of the books on my list, I’ve only read the two nonfiction titles listed above. Yeah, both made a few things more clear, I am sure my romantic interests owe both authors a gift. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/31 "2011-01-25T13:59:04Z")
Born in 1948–lots of War books on the lists. Novels include Normal Mailer’s _The Naked & The Dead_ and Irwin Shaw’s _The Young Lions._ Eisenhower’s _Crusade in Europe_ was #1 in nonfiction–a list that included Churchill’s _The Gathering Storm_. Plus a bunch of no-longer-fashionable novels & self-help books. And Kinsey’s _Sexual Behavior in the Human Male_. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/32 "2011-01-25T15:25:28Z")
Tai-Pan is the only one I recognize. Oh, and Valley of the Dolls, though I have never read it. I got excited for a moment when I switched ‘Harold’ for ‘Tom’ and was excited about a Robbins book I had somehow missed… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/33 "2011-01-25T16:05:05Z")
On my list I’ve only read _The Dead Zone_, and _The Right Stuff_ actually. I’ve read plenty by some of the authors - I may even have read that Erma Bombeck, I used to read a lot of her stuff - but not these specific books. Keep meaning to read _Smiley’s People_, though - maybe this is the sign. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/34 "2011-01-25T16:32:23Z")
For the week ending Mar. 14th, 1965: Fiction 1 HERZOG Saul Bellow Fiction 2 THE MAN Irving Wallace Fiction 3 FUNERAL IN BERLIN Len Deighton Fiction 4 HURRY SUNDOWN K.B. Gilden Fiction 5 THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN Louis Auchincloss Fiction 6 UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE Bel Kaufman Fiction 7 HOTEL Arthur Hailey Fiction 8 A COVENANT WITH DEATH Stephen Becker Fiction 9 THIS ROUGH MAGIC Mary Stewart Fiction 10 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVENTH VIRGIN Victoria Holt Non-Fiction 1 MARKINGS Dag Hammarskjöld Non-Fiction 2 THE FOUNDING FATHER Richard J. Whalen Non-Fiction 3 QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO SUCCEED Elizabeth Longford Non-Fiction 4 REMINISCENCES Douglas MacArthur Non-Fiction 5 THE ITALIANS Luigi Barzini Non-Fiction 6 MY SHADOW RAN FAST Bill Sands Non-Fiction 7 SIXPENCE IN HER SHOE Phyllis McGinley Non-Fiction 8 LIFE WITH PICASSO Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake Non-Fiction 9 THE WORDS Jean-Paul Sartre Non-Fiction 10 CATHERINE THE GREAT Zoe Oldenbourg Never read any of these. Okay, I’ve seen the movie version of _Up the Down Staircase_. Jean-Paul Sartre?? Whoa! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/35 "2011-01-25T17:47:43Z")
Gah. _Jonathan Livingstone Seagull_. And _I’m Okay, You’re Okay_ ---
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Fiction 1 LOVE IS ETERNAL Irving Stone Fiction 2 THE VIEW FROM POMPEY’S HEAD Hamilton Basso Fiction 3 KATHERINE Anya Seton Fiction 4 NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS Mac Hyman Fiction 5 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Ernest Kellogg Gann Fiction 6 MY BROTHER’S KEEPER Marcia Davenport Fiction 7 NOT AS A STRANGER Morton Thompson Fiction 8 MARY ANNE Daphne du Maurier Fiction 9 GOOD MORNING MISS DOVE, Frances Gray Patton Fiction 10 BENTON’S ROW Frank Yer I actually have a copy of #3, and enjoyed it very much. I saw the movie based on #9, with Jennifer Jones in the title role. My favorite scene in that is when Miss Dove if facing risky back surgery and she asks the surgeon where she will wake up after it’s over. He looks her right in the eye(he’s a former student of hers) and says, in a heavy voice “I don’t know”. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/37 "2011-01-25T19:51:33Z")
For 3/11/68, we have #1 fiction as THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER and for #1 non-fiction THE NAKED APE. I’ve read neither one of these, much to my detriment I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/38 "2011-01-25T20:42:05Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > #1 Fiction: Chesapeake by James Michener #1 Non-Fiction: Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford. The only book on either list I’ve read is The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien. For me Chesapeake was #2 in fiction. Mommie Dearest still #1 in non-fiction. The only book I’ve heard of and let alone read was THE SILMARILLION J.R.R. Tolkien at #8. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839/39 "2011-01-25T21:02:19Z")
Summer, 1955 Fiction AUNTIE MAME Patrick Dennis BONJOUR TRISTESSE Francoise Sagan SOMETHING OF VALUE Robert Ruark THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT Sloan Wilson THE FLOWER GIRLS Clemence Dane Nonfiction GIFT FROM THE SEA Anne Morrow Lindbergh THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING Norman Vincent Peale\* THE FAMILY OF MAN Edward Steichen A MAN CALLED PETER Catherine Marshall WHY JOHNNY CAN’T READ Rudolf Franz Flesch \*looks like it took a few months for NVP to drop to second place. Turns out **twicks** and I are about a half a year apart. ---
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Interesting - I’ve read the No. 1 on both lists, but not many of the others. 1 ANDERSONVILLE MacKinlay Kantor **-Read it** 2 MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR Herman Wouk 3 TEN NORTH FREDERICK John O’Hara 4 CASH McCALL Cameron Hawley 5 AUNTIE MAME Patrick Dennis **-Read it** 6 BOON ISLAND Kenneth Roberts 7 ISLAND IN THE SUN Alec Waugh 8 THE TONTINE Thomas B. Costain 9 AN EPISODE OF SPARROWS Rumer Godden 10 THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT Sloan Wilson **-Read it** Non-fiction: 1 GIFT FROM THE SEA Anne Morrow Lindbergh **-Read it** 2 INSIDE AFRICA John Gunther 3 A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Walter Lord 4 THE EDGE OF THE SEA Rachel Carson 5 THE SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA Edmund Wilson 6 THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING Norman Vincent Peale 7 PROFILES IN COURAGE John F. Kennedy **-Read it** 8 THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY Morey Bernstein 9 HOW TO LIVE 365 DAYS A YEAR John A. Schindler 10 MEMOIRS Vol. 1, Harry S. Truman Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-when-you-were-born/568839.md?page=3)