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Best Sellers · 1950s

1954

#1 bestsellers month by month.

January

Hardcover Fiction

Samuel Shellabarger

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

February

Hardcover Fiction

Samuel Shellabarger

NOT AS A STRANGER

Morton Thompson

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

March

Hardcover Fiction

NOT AS A STRANGER

Morton Thompson

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

April

Hardcover Fiction

NOT AS A STRANGER

Morton Thompson

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

BUT WE WERE BORN FREE

Elmer Holmes Davis

May

Hardcover Fiction

NOT AS A STRANGER

Morton Thompson

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

June

Hardcover Fiction

NOT AS A STRANGER

Morton Thompson

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

July

Hardcover Fiction

NOT AS A STRANGER

Morton Thompson

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

August

Hardcover Fiction

Daphne du Maurier

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

September

Hardcover Fiction

Daphne du Maurier

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

October

Hardcover Fiction

Daphne du Maurier

LOVE IS ETERNAL

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

November

Hardcover Fiction

LOVE IS ETERNAL

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

December

Hardcover Fiction

LOVE IS ETERNAL

Hardcover Nonfiction

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Norman Vincent Peale

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