Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Titles on list
83
Total weeks
692
Best rank
#1
Weeks at #1
59
On the Bestseller Lists
83 titles
THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN
Thomas Merton#2 · 62 wks
NORTH TO THE ORIENT
Anne Lindbergh#1 · 41 wks
DEARLY BELOVED
Anne Morrow Lindbergh#2 · 32 wks
MRS. MINIVER
Jan Struther#1 · 29 wks
DECISION AT DELPHI
Helen MacInnes#5 · 26 wks
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Carl Sandburg#2 · 25 wks
TOP SECRET
Ralph Ingersoll#2 · 24 wks
REMEMBRANCE ROCK
Carl Sandburg#3 · 21 wks
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
George Orwell#3 · 20 wks
THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
W. L. White#1 · 20 wks
THE YEARS
Virginia Woolf#1 · 19 wks
LISTEN! THE WIND
Anne Morrow Lindbergh#1 · 17 wks
VEIN OF IRON
Ellen Glasgow#1 · 17 wks
BRING ME A UNICORN
Anne Morrow Lindbergh#4 · 15 wks
THE HUMAN COMEDY
William Saroyan#2 · 15 wks
MRS. ASTOR'S HORSE
Stanley Walker#2 · 15 wks
THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
Anne Morrow Lindbergh#1 · 14 wks
IN THIS OUR LIFE
Ellen Glasgow#2 · 13 wks
CRESS DELAHANTY
Jessamyn West#8 · 11 wks
AMBASSADOR DODD'S DIARY
William Dodd, Jr. and Martha Dodd#2 · 11 wks
PARADISE
Esther Forbes#3 · 11 wks
BEHIND GOD'S BACK
Negley Farson#4 · 10 wks
ASYLUM
William Seabrook#3 · 10 wks
EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS
David Guterson#4 · 9 wks
ASPECTS OF LOVE
David Garnett#10 · 8 wks
ALL THE KING'S MEN
Robert Penn Warren#6 · 8 wks
ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell#7 · 8 wks
MY SISTER EILEEN
Ruth McKenney#4 · 8 wks
ASSIGNMENT IN UTOPIA
Eugene Lyons#3 · 8 wks
THE BIG MONEY
John Dos Passos#4 · 8 wks
GAUDY NIGHT
Dorothy L. Sayers#4 · 8 wks
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS
Carl Sandburg#2 · 7 wks
AUDUBON
Constance Rourke#2 · 7 wks
BUTTERFIELD 8
John O'Hara#3 · 7 wks
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
John O'Hara#5 · 7 wks
THE LAST ADAM
James G. Cozzens#1 · 7 wks
GAL: A True Life
Ruthie Bolton#13 · 6 wks
MY SISTER AND I
Dirk van der Heide#2 · 6 wks
THE ROBBER BARONS
Matthew Josephson#1 · 6 wks
SOUTH OF THE ANGELS
Jessamyn West#13 · 5 wks
GUARD OF HONOR
James Gould Cozzens#13 · 5 wks
THE BEAST IN ME AND OTHER ANIMALS
James Thurber#10 · 5 wks
DELTA WEDDING
Eudora Welty#12 · 5 wks
HOPE OF HEAVEN
John O'Hara#4 · 5 wks
TRANSGRESSOR IN THE TROPICS
Negley Farson#4 · 5 wks
THE BATTLE IS THE PAY-OFF
Ralph Ingersoll#3 · 4 wks
THROUGH EMBASSY EYES
Martha Dodd#3 · 4 wks
LAND WITHOUT JUSTICE
Milovan Djilas#9 · 3 wks
ELIZABETH, CAPTIVE PRINCESS
Margaret Irwin#12 · 3 wks
THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Jessamyn West#12 · 3 wks
THE EDUCATION OF HYMAN KAPLAN
Leonard Q. Ross#6 · 3 wks
MODERN AMERICAN PROSE
Carl Van Doren#5 · 3 wks
STRANGER'S RETURN
Phil Stong#2 · 3 wks
CONSIDER THIS, SENORA
Harriet Doerr#13 · 2 wks
TO SEE THE DREAM
Jessamyn West#13 · 2 wks
THE GOLDEN APPLES
Eudora W elty#13 · 2 wks
THE ADVENTURES OF WESLEY JACKSON
William Saroyan#10 · 2 wks
THE WHITE DEER
James Thurber#12 · 2 wks
REPORT ON THE RUSSIANS
William L. White#3 · 2 wks
QUEENS DIE PROUDLY
W. L. White#4 · 2 wks
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE
Paul de Kruif#4 · 2 wks
LAST FLIGHT
Amelia Earhart#4 · 2 wks
BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON
Dorothy L. Sayers#5 · 2 wks
THE COLOR PURPLE
Alice Walker#10 · 1 wk
A WRITER'S DIARY
Virginia and Leonard Woolf#16 · 1 wk
THE PONDER HEART
Eudora Welty#15 · 1 wk
THE GROVES OF ACADEME
Mary McCarthy#14 · 1 wk
THE CHRISTMAS FLOWER
Joseph Henry Jackson#14 · 1 wk
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE
T.S. Eliot#15 · 1 wk
LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
William Lindsay White#16 · 1 wk
THE STEEP ASCENT
Anne Morrow Lindbergh#5 · 1 wk
SEASONED TIMBER
Dorothy Canfield#7 · 1 wk
HELEN'S TOWER
Harold Nicolson#8 · 1 wk
CAREER
Phil Stong#8 · 1 wk
MEN AND BRETHREN
James Gould Cozzens#6 · 1 wk
MEN OF IRON
Ellen Glasgow#6 · 1 wk
D. W. MORROW
Harold Nicolson#6 · 1 wk
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEW DEAL
Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Vinton#7 · 1 wk
HALF MILE DOWN
William Beebe#7 · 1 wk
BONFIRE
Dorothy Canfield#2 · 1 wk
FLUSH
Virginia Woolf#3 · 1 wk
SHERMAN
Lloyd Lewis#2 · 1 wk
1919
John Dos Passos#2 · 1 wk
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