BOOKS DISPLAYED ON THE SHELF
The following is a list of books that were among the 50 bestsellars at some point in the 1950s. As you can see, self-help books became very popular during this era:
- Baby and Childcare - Dr. Spock
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook
- The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Edition
- The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - John LaCarre
- The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Female - Alfred C. Kinsey
- The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
- This is Ike - Wilson Hicks, ed.
- From Here to Eternity - James Jones
- A Man Called Peter - Catherine Marshall
- Angel Unaware - Dale Evans Rogers
- The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
- The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
- Return to Paradise - James Michener
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