Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Titles on list
58
Total weeks
468
Best rank
#1
Weeks at #1
14
On the Bestseller Lists
58 titles
BUT WE WERE BORN FREE
Elmer Holmes Davis#1 · 37 wks
THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Ayn Rand#5 · 30 wks
LIVE ALONE AND LIKE IT
Marjorie Hillis#1 · 28 wks
STRICTLY SPEAKING
Edwin Newman#3 · 26 wks
DETROIT IS MY OWN HOME TOWN
Malcolm W. Bingay#10 · 22 wks
THE PEACOCK SHEDS HIS TAIL
Alice Tisdale Hobart#4 · 21 wks
THE CLEFT ROCK
Alice Tisdale Hobart#8 · 17 wks
ORCHIDS ON YOUR BUDGET
Marjorie Hillis#1 · 17 wks
YANG AND YIN
Alice Tisdale Hobart#3 · 16 wks
QUEEN'S GIFT
Inglis Clark Fletcher#8 · 15 wks
THE SCOTSWOMAN
Inglis Clark Fletcher#10 · 14 wks
BENNETT'S WELCOME
Inglis Fletcher#7 · 13 wks
ROANOKE HUNDRED
Inglis Clark Fletcher#8 · 13 wks
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Howard Vincent O'Brien#11 · 13 wks
TWO MINUTES TILL MIDNIGHT
Elmer Davis#6 · 12 wks
THE NEW JOY OF COOKING
Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker#11 · 12 wks
CHRIST IN CONCRETE
Pietro di Donato#2 · 11 wks
LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS
William Styron#7 · 10 wks
HIGH VALLEY
Charmian Clift And George Johnston#12 · 10 wks
TOIL OF THE BRAVE
Inglis Fletcher#11 · 10 wks
THE SINNER OF SAINT AMBROSE
Robert Reynolds#10 · 9 wks
I SAW POLAND BETRAYED
Arthur Bliss Lane#8 · 8 wks
THE GOOD NEWS DAYS
Merriman Smith#9 · 7 wks
THE CROSS OF IRON
Willi Heinrich#9 · 7 wks
DRAWN FROM MEMORY
John T. McCutcheon#10 · 7 wks
LAKE ERIE
Harlan Henthorne Hatcher#9 · 7 wks
BATTLE BELOW
Robert J. Casey#8 · 6 wks
BUBBLES: A Self-Portrait
Beverly Sills#9 · 5 wks
ANDREW JACKSON
Marquis James#4 · 5 wks
RIVER SUPREME
Alice Tisdale Hobart#4 · 5 wks
BRIGHT SKIN
Julia Peterkin#1 · 5 wks
HILL OF THE HAWK
Scott O'Dell#15 · 4 wks
THE FIRESIDE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
Edward Wagenknecht#8 · 4 wks
EXIT LAUGHING
Irwin S. Cobb#4 · 4 wks
OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
Alice Tisdale Hobart#2 · 3 wks
A CIVIL TONGUE
Edwin Newman#9 · 2 wks
WHITE HOUSE PROFILE
Bess Furman#13 · 2 wks
THE SERPENT-WREATHED STAFF
Alice Tisdale Hobart#14 · 2 wks
THE GRAND PORTAGE
Walter O'Meara#14 · 2 wks
COMMUNISM AND CONSCIENCE OF THE WEST
Fulton J. Sheen#13 · 2 wks
TWO QUIET LIVES
David Cecil#16 · 2 wks
OVER AT UNCLE JOE'S
Oriana Atkinson#15 · 2 wks
THE THRESHER
Herbert Krause#13 · 2 wks
MY SAN FRANCISCO
Gertrude Atherton#12 · 2 wks
GOLDEN FLEECE
Bertita Harding#6 · 2 wks
FOLLOW THE FURIES
Eleanor Carroll Chilton#7 · 2 wks
WAY OF THE LANCER
Richard Boleslavski#2 · 2 wks
SWEET SUFFERING
Natalie Shainess#14 · 1 wk
MISTRESS TO AN AGE
J. Christopher Herold#14 · 1 wk
MORE INTERESTING PEOPLE
Robert J. Casey#12 · 1 wk
THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN
Robert J. Casey#13 · 1 wk
MY MEMOIR
Edith Bolling Wilson#6 · 1 wk
SHIPS IN THE SKY
Gunnar Gunnarsson#6 · 1 wk
THE PHANTOM CROWN
Bertita Harding#5 · 1 wk
ANDREW JACKSON: THE BORDER CAPTAIN
Marquis James#2 · 1 wk
THE FLYING CARPET
Richard Halliburton#3 · 1 wk
BALLERINA
Lady Eleanor Smith#3 · 1 wk
A FORTUNE TO SHARE
Vash Young#1 · 1 wk
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