Publisher
Harcourt Brace and Company
Titles on list
31
Total weeks
321
Best rank
#1
Weeks at #1
26
On the Bestseller Lists
31 titles
BY LOVE POSSESSED
James Gould Cozzens#1 · 41 wks
AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME
Patrick Dennis#2 · 31 wks
OLD HERBACEOUS
Reginald Arkell#10 · 24 wks
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
T.S. Eliot#3 · 24 wks
THE LITTLE PRINCESSES
Marion Crawford#1 · 22 wks
A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE
Erich Maria Remarque#6 · 17 wks
THE ROMMEL PAPERS
B.H. Liddell Hart#6 · 16 wks
THE SPIRE
William Golding#3 · 15 wks
ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS
Carl Sandburg#3 · 15 wks
SENATOR JOE McCARTHY
Richard H. Rovere#7 · 13 wks
THE ECHOING GROVE
Rosamond Lehmann#5 · 12 wks
THE SIGN OF JONAS
Thomas Merton#7 · 12 wks
THE WIDOW
Susan Yorke#6 · 12 wks
ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX
James MacGregor Burns#5 · 11 wks
EISENHOWER: CAPTIVE HERO
Marquis William Childs#8 · 9 wks
THE QUARRY
Mildred Walker#11 · 8 wks
AFFECTIONATELY, F.D.R.
James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett#10 · 6 wks
BELOVED
Viña Delmar#14 · 6 wks
THEY WENT TO COLLEGE
Ernest Havemann and Patricia Salter West#13 · 5 wks
SURPRISED BY JOY
C.S. Lewis#14 · 4 wks
JEFFERSON DAVIS
Hudson Strode#11 · 3 wks
TRANSFER POINT
Kathryn Forbes#15 · 3 wks
THE WOMAN WITHIN
Ellen Glasgow#14 · 2 wks
THE CATHERINE WHEEL
Jean Stafford#13 · 2 wks
COMPLETE POEMS
Carl Sandburg#15 · 2 wks
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
George Orwell#15 · 1 wk
LOVE, DEATH AND THE LADIES' DRILL TEAM
Jessamyn West#16 · 1 wk
POWER AND POLICY
Thomas K. Finletter#16 · 1 wk
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
T.S. Eliot#16 · 1 wk
THE SOUTHWEST CORNER
Mildred Walker#15 · 1 wk
LOVE STORY
Ruth McKenney#15 · 1 wk
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