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What was in the New York Times Bestsellers list, the year you were born?

by EmmaD at 21:32 on 10 January 2011

http://www.biblioz.com/best_sellers.php?a=0&i=43622970

Feeling rather please that mine are The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and The Group. Also a lot of President Kennedy...

Emma

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Re: What was in the New York Times Bestsellers list, the year you were born?

by Account Closed at 21:56 on 10 January 2011

Mine were really boring... the only one that looked slightly interesting was The joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten.

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by Account Closed at 22:09 on 10 January 2011

Number 1 was the Prodigal Daughter (Jeffrey Archer) but more interestingly - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler.

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by EmmaD at 22:35 on 10 January 2011

The joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten.

is a hoot - very funny indeed.

Emma

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by Jem at 22:36 on 10 January 2011

I absolutely adored The Joyce of Yiddish and The Group. The most famous published in the year of my birth was a certain "The Catcher in the Rye". Also "The Cruel Saa" by Nicholas Monsarrat and "From Here to Eternity"
And loads I've never heard of!

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by riiiiiiich at 22:36 on 11 January 2011

Love Story at number 1!

Also on the list - John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman and Deliverance by James Dickey.

And riding high in the non-fics - er, Inside the Third Reich by Alvert Speer... oh dear! And I thought Tony Blair was bad for cashing in...

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*Albert that should be. Ruddy keyboard...

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by Account Closed at 13:58 on 12 January 2011

The Silmarrillion was number one - I haven't heard of most of the rest. Obviously not a classic week...

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Re: What was in the New York Times Bestsellers list, the year you were born?

by fiona_j at 22:44 on 14 January 2011

Number one for fiction was Space - James A. Michener
Number one for non-fiction was Jane Fonda's workout book.

Jane Fonda actually had two in the top ten - both workout books.

Life, the Universe and Everything was in there which is nice to see, as was 2010: Odyssey Two.

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