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F I C T I O N

1. The Cardinal, Henry Morton Robinson

2. Joy Street, Frances Parkinson Keyes

3. Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway

4. The Wall, John Hersey

5. Star Money, Kathleen Winsor

6. The Parasites, Daphne du Maurier

7. Floodtide, Frank Yerby

8. Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow

9. The Adventurer, Mika Waltari

10. The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

2. The Baby

3. Look Younger, Live Longer, Gayelord Hauser

4. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling, Frank Bettger

5. Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

6. Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, Peter Marshall

7. Your Dream Home, Hubbard Cobb

8. The Mature Mind, H. A. Overstreet

9. Campus Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr.

10. Belles on Their Toes, Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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F I C T I O N

1. From Here to Eternity, James Jones

2. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk

3. Moses, Sholem Asch

4. The Cardinal, Henry Morton Robinson

5. A Woman Called Fancy, Frank Yerby

6. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat

7. Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., John P. Marquand

8. Return to Paradise, James A. Michener

9. The Foundling, Cardinal Spellman

10. The Wanderer, Mika Waltari

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Look Younger, Live Longer, Gayelord Hauser

2. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

3. Washington Confidential, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

4. Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book

5. Better Homes and Gardens Handyman's Book

6. The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson

7. Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary, Clarence L. Barnhart, editor

8. Pogo, Walt Kelly

9. Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

10. The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album

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F I C T I O N

1. The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain

2. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk

3. East of Eden, John Steinbeck

4. My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

5. Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes

6. Giant, Edna Ferber

7. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

8. The Gown of Glory, Agnes Sligh Turnbull

9. The Saracen Blade, Frank Yerby

10. The Houses in Between, Howard Spring

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version

2. A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall

3. U.S.A. Confidential, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

4. The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson

5. Tallulah, Tallulah Bankhead

6. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

7. This I Believe, Edward P. Morgan, editor; Edward R. Murrow, foreword

8. This Is Ike, Wilson Hicks, editor

9. Witness, Whittaker Chambers

10. Mr. President, William Hillman

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F I C T I O N

1. The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

2. The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain

3. Désirée, Annemarie Selinko

4. Battle Cry, Leon M. Uris

5. From Here to Eternity, James Jones

6. The High and the Mighty, Ernest K. Gann

7. Beyond This Place, A. J. Cronin

8. Time and Time Again, James Hilton

9. Lord Vanity, Samuel Shellabarger

10. The Unconquered, Ben Ames Williams

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version

2. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

3. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Alfred C. Kinsey, et al.

4. Angel Unaware, Dale Evans Rogers

5. Life Is Worth Living, Fulton J. Sheen

6. A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall

7. This I Believe, Edward P. Morgan, editor; Edward R. Murrow, foreword

8. The Greatest Faith Ever Known, Fulton Oursler and G.A.O. Armstrong

9. How to Play Your Best Golf, Tommy Armour

10. A House Is Not a Home, Polly Adler

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F I C T I O N

1. Not as a Stranger, Morton Thompson

2. Mary Anne, Daphne du Maurier

3. Love Is Eternal, Irving Stone

4. The Royal Box, Frances Parkinson Keyes

5. The Egyptian, Mika Waltari

6. No Time for Sergeants, Mac Hyman

7. Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck

8. The View from Pompey's Head, Hamilton Basso

9. Never Victorious, Never Defeated, Taylor Caldwell

10. Benton's Row, Frank Yerby

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The HoIy Bible: Revised Standard Version

2. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

3. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

4. Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cook Book

5. The Tumult and the Shouting, Grantland Rice

6. I'll Cry Tomorrow, Lillian Roth, Gerold Frank, and Mike Connolly

7. The Prayers of Peter Marshall, Catherine Marshall, editor

8. This I Believe, 2, Raymond Swing, editor

9. But We Were Born Free, Elmer Davis

10. The Saturday Evening Post Treasury, Roger Butterfield, editor

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F I C T I O N

1. Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk

2. Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis

3. Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor

4. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan

5. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson

6. Something of Value, Robert Ruark

7. Not As a Stranger, Morton Thompson

8. No Time for Sergeants, Mac Hyman

9. The Tontine, Thomas B. Costain

10. Ten North Frederick, John O'Hara

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

3. The Family of Man, Edward Steichen

4. A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall

5. How to Live 365 Days a Year, John A. Schindler

6. Better Homes and Gardens Diet Book

7. The Secret of Happiness, Billy Graham

8. Why Johnny Can't Read, Rudolf Flesch

9. Inside Africa, John Gunther

10. Year of Decisions, Harry S Truman

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F I C T I O N

1. Don't Go Near the Water, William Brinkley

2. The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor

3. Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

4. Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis

5. Eloise, Kay Thompson

6. Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor

7. A Certain Smile, Françoise Sagan

8. The Tribe That Lost Its Head, Nicholas Monsarrat

9. The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir

10. Boon Island, Kenneth Roberts

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Arthritis and Common Sense, rev. ed., Dan Dale Alexander

2. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, concise ed., David B. Guralnik

3. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 2nd. ed.

4. Etiquette, Frances Benton

5. Better Homes and Gardens Barbecue Book

6. The Search for Bridey Murphy, Morey Bernstein

7. Love or Perish, Smiley Blanton, M.D.

8. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book

9. How To Live 365 Days a Year, John A. Schindler

10. The Nun's Story, Kathryn Hulme

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F I C T I O N

1. By Love Possessed, James Gould Cozzens

2. Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

3. Compulsion, Meyer Levin

4. Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Max Shulman

5. Blue Camellia, Frances Parkinson Keyes

6. Eloise in Paris, Kay Thompson

7. The Scapegoat, Daphne du Maurier

8. On the Beach, Nevil Shute

9. Below the Salt, Thomas B. Costain

10. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Kids Say the Darndest Things!, Art Linkletter

2. The FBI Story, Don Whitehead

3. Stay Alive All Your Life, Norman Vincent Peale

4. To Live Again, Catherine Marshall

5. Better Homes and Gardens Flower Arranging

6. Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing, Robert Paul Smith

7. Baruch: My Own Story, Bernard M. Baruch

8. Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr

9. The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places

10. The Day Christ Died, Jim Bishop

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F I C T I O N

1. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak

2. Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver

3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

4. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis

5. From the Terrace, John O'Hara

6. Eloise at Christmastime, Kay Thompson

7. Ice Palace, Edna Ferber

8. The Winthrop Woman, Anya Seton

9. The Enemy Camp, Jerome Weidman

10. Victorine, Frances Parkinson Keyes

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Kids Say the Darndest Things!, Art Linkletter

2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Pat Boone

3. Only in America, Harry Golden

4. Masters of Deceit, Edgar Hoover

5. Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr

6. Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book

7. The New Testament in Modern English, J. P. Phillips, trans.

8. Aku-Aku, Thor Heyerdahl

9. Dear Abby, Abigail Van Buren

10. Inside Russia Today, John Gunther

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F I C T I O N

1. Exodus, Leon Uris

2. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak

3. Hawaii, James Michener

4. Advise and Consent, Allen Drury

5. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence

6. The Ugly American, William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick

7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Taylor Caldwell

8. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

9. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico

10. Poor No More, Robert Ruark

N O N F I C T I O N

1. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Pat Boone

2. Folk Medicine, D. C. Jarvis

3. For 2¢ Plain, Harry Golden

4. The Status Seekers, Vance Packard

5. Act One, Moss Hart

6. Charley Weaver's Letters from Mamma, Cliff Arquette

7. The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

8. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook

9. Only in America, Harry Golden

10. Mine Enemy Grows Older, Alexander King