Bestselling Book The Year You Were Born

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Just a bit of fun so you can check on the best selling book in the year that you were born. I've never even heard of the one for the year I arrived on the planet.

https://www.bookbub.com/blog/bestselling-books-the-year-you-were-born

[dannyk13]

The Good Earth by Pearl.S.Buck.

[Canary42]

Best Seller: The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel

Also ran : The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Only heard of one of these authors, none of the books.

[carolegif]

Never heard of mine either, but scrolling through, I can’t believe Forever Amber was a bestseller in 1945! I read it twenty years later and thought it was new!

[dannyk13]

Forever Aaber was also a film of 1947.

[dannyk13]

^Amber^

[davebro]

The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier (English Civil War)

Never read it. I don't think buying books was a big priority in the early post-war years. But we did go to the library a lot.

[Mamyalynne]

The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Mine is The Egyptian by Mika Waltari described as a sprawling novel set in ancient Egypt that was made into a film in 1954 and is the only Finnish novel adapted for Hollywood. Won't be rushing out to buy it.

[maggiebee]

Have never read The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier although I have read Rebecca.

[pastafreak]

Scrolling through the years from the 1940s through the 60s, I've heard of so many. But not the one from the year I was born...The Miracle of the Bells by Russell Janney.

[gulliver1]

Forever Aber.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Pasta you are the same year as Mr BD and it made me smile because he was a bellringer for many years, as were other members of his family.

[Mamyalynne]

Miracle of the Bells was made into a lovely film.

Frank Sinatra sang this in the film.

[rowanwitch]

The cat in the hat, don't know what the grownups were reading,

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Just read the blurb for Miracle of the Bells - Russell Janney’s debut novel tells the story of Bill Dunnigan, the greatest press agent in America, who brings the body of Olga Treskovna, the purest female and best actress of America, to Coaltown, the worst mining town in the country, for burial.

The first part of the book is a flashback to the love story of the press agent and the actress, which was ideal, rather uncomplicated, and completely unconsummated. However, with Olga’s death, there begins an exhibition of power by the press agent—and this becomes the real substance of the book.
A novel of joyousness in life that will sweep the reader into a delightful liberating experience.

[EdmundD]

1950: The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson

[Peter Pedant]

many thanks BD

[emmie]

One was Lord of the Flies, which i haven't ever read -

[elliemay1]

The Robe, also made into a film

[Togo]

The Doomsday Book. William the Concreter. A story of a building project that causes a natural disaster. :))