Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Titles on list
50
Total weeks
642
Best rank
#1
Weeks at #1
28
On the Bestseller Lists
50 titles
THE GODFATHER
Mario Puzo#1 · 67 wks
LOLITA
Vladimir Nabokov#1 · 56 wks
BATTLE CRY
Leon Uris#2 · 52 wks
CANDY
Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg#2 · 35 wks
A KING'S STORY
Edward Windsor, Duke of Windsor#2 · 27 wks
MOSES
Sholem Asch#4 · 26 wks
MY WICKED, WICKED WAYS
Errol Flynn#4 · 22 wks
THE ADVENTURER
Mika Waltari#3 · 22 wks
FUNERAL IN BERLIN
Len Deighton#3 · 20 wks
THE DOCTORS
Andre Soubiran#8 · 18 wks
WAIT FOR TOMORROW
Robert Wilder#6 · 18 wks
THE WINE OF YOUTH
Robert Wilder#9 · 16 wks
VEECK --AS IN WRECK
Bill Veeck#8 · 15 wks
COLLISION COURSE
Alvin Moscow#6 · 15 wks
SEIDMAN AND SON
Elick Moll#6 · 15 wks
THE DEER PARK
Norman Mailer#6 · 15 wks
THE WANDERER
Mika Waltari#7 · 15 wks
THE BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN
Len Deighton#7 · 13 wks
THE PINK HOTEL
Dorothy Erskine and Patrick Dennis#6 · 13 wks
THE ALEXANDRIANS
Charles Mills#9 · 12 wks
TIGER OF THE SNOWS
Tenzing of Everest and James Ramsey Ullman#8 · 11 wks
CAPONE
John Kobler#7 · 10 wks
SUMMER OF '42
Herman Raucher#7 · 10 wks
THE ETRUSCAN
Mika Waltari#7 · 10 wks
THE HEALING OATH
Andre Soubiran#10 · 10 wks
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Ellis M. Zacharias#9 · 10 wks
SUNDAY THE RABBI STAYED HOME
Harry Kemelman#6 · 9 wks
THE PROPHET
Sholem Asch#12 · 9 wks
THE SUN IS MY SHADOW
Robert Wilder#11 · 8 wks
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
Terence Hanbury White#9 · 8 wks
RACHEL CADE
Charles E. Mercer#13 · 7 wks
A PASSAGE IN THE NIGHT
Sholem Asch#15 · 7 wks
FIFTY FABULOUS YEARS
H.V. Kaltenborn#10 · 5 wks
AN UNTOLD STORY
Elliot Roosevelt and James Brough#8 · 4 wks
WIND FROM THE CAROLINAS
Robert Wilder#9 · 4 wks
PALE FIRE
Vladimir Nabokov#14 · 3 wks
VALHALLA
Jere Peacock#12 · 3 wks
MAMMY PLEASANT
Helen Holdredge#15 · 3 wks
THE LADY OF THE HOUSE
Sally Stanford#8 · 2 wks
THE MEMOIRS OF AN AMNESIAC
Oscar Levant#8 · 2 wks
THE SECRET OF THE KINGDOM
Mika Waltari#15 · 2 wks
THE DAYS DIVIDING
John Selby#13 · 2 wks
AROUND THE WORLD CONFIDENTIAL
Lee Mortimer#13 · 2 wks
LOOK DOWN IN MERCY
Walter Baxter#14 · 2 wks
FIRE ON THE WIND
David Garth#15 · 2 wks
THE BITTER WOODS
John S. D. Eisenhower#9 · 1 wk
COUNTDOWN FOR DECISION
Major General J.B. Medaris and Arthur Gordon#16 · 1 wk
ENOUGH GOOD MEN
Charles Mercer#16 · 1 wk
THE ARCTIC YEAR
Peter Freuchen and Finn Salomonsen#15 · 1 wk
DESIGNING MALE
Howard Greer#15 · 1 wk
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