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All the books that have been 'Number One' on the 'New York Times Best Seller List' (fiction)

A listing of adult fiction books which have made number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. The dates are not listed but the list is in chronological order from when it first began back on August 9, 1942.

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1.
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 And Now Tomorrow
by Rachel Field
  
2. The Song of Bernadette
by Franz Werfel
  
3.
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 Drivin' Woman
by Elizabeth Pickett Cheavlier
  
4. The Robe
by Lloyd C. Douglas
  
5.
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 Mrs Parkington
by Louis Broomfield
  
6.
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 So Little Time: A Novel
by John P. Marquand
  
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
by Betty Smith
  
8. Strange Fruit
by Lillian Smith
  
9. The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
10. Green Dolphin Street
by Elizabeth Goudge
  
11. Forever Amber
by Kathleen Winsor
  
12.
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 The Green Years
by Archibald Joseph Cronin
  
13. Earth And High Heaven
by Gwethlyn Graham
  
14. Captain From Castile: The Best-Selling Historical Epic
by Samuel Shellabarger
  
15.
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 A Lion is in the Streets
by Adria Locke Langley
  
16.
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 So Well Remembered
by James Hilton
  
17. The Black Rose
by Thomas B. Costain
  
18. The King's General
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
19. Arch of Triumph
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
20.
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 This Side of Innocence
by Taylor Caldwell
  
21.
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 The Hucksters
by Frederic Wakeman
  
22. East River: A Novel of New York
by Sholem Asch
  
23.
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 B.F.'s Daughter
by John P. Marquand
  
24. Lydia Bailey
by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
  
25.
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 Gentlemen's Agreement
by Laura Z Hobson
  
26. Kingsblood Royal (Modern Library Classics)
by Sinclair Lewis
  
27.
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 The Moneyman
by Thomas B. Costain
  
28.
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 House Divided
by Ben Ames Williams
  
29.
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 East Side, West Side
by Marcia Davenport
  
30.
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 Eagle In the Sky
by F Van Wyck Mason
  
31. The Ides of March: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
  
32. Raintree County
by Ross Lockridge
  
33.
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 Pilgrim's Inn
by Elizabeth Goudge
  
34. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Norman Mailer
  
35.
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 Shannon's Way
by A. J. Cronin
  
36. The Young Lions
by Irwin Shaw
  
37.
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 The Big Fisherman
by Lloyd C Douglas
  
38.
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 Point of No Return
by John P Marquand
  
39. A Rage to Live (Modern Library Classics)
by John O'Hara
  
40. The Egyptian: A Novel
by Mika Waltari
  
41.
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 The Parasites
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
42.
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 The Wall
by John Hersey
  
43.
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 The Cardinal
by Henry Morton Robinson
  
44. Across the River and into the Trees
by Ernest Hemingway
  
45.
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 The Disenchanted
by Budd Schulberg
  
46. Joy Street
by Frances Parkinson Keyes
  
47. From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
  
48.
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 The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
  
49. My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
50. The Silver Chalice (Loyola Classic)
by Thomas B. Costain
  
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Created by musicmom on Oct 14, 2007.