Video: 1950 to 2005: Books that have become bestsellers over the years
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In today's world, it is not easy to follow trends in literature. A huge number of books are published annually, the general public only learns about those in the promotion of which a lot of money has been invested. And yet, among the huge amount of reading material, there are books that have been noted by critics and have gained popularity among readers. If you want to know which book was the bestseller in the year you were born, take a look at this list. After all, perhaps this particular book will be the next that you want to read.
1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Clive Staples Lewis 1951 - The Catcher in the Rye, Jerome Salinger 1952 - The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 1953 - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 1954 - The Lord Rings, John R. R. Tolkien 1955 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 1956 - Fall, Albert Camus 1957 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss 1958 - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote 1959 - Tin Drum, Gunther Grass 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 1961 - A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 1962 - A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle 1963 - Under a Jar, Sylvia Plath 1964 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 1965 - Ariel, Sylvia Plath 1966 - Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes 1967 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez 1968 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1969 - Slaughterhouse Five, or the Children's Crusade , Kurt Vonnegut
1970 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach 1971 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson 1972 - Hill Inhabitants, Richard Adams 1973 - The Princess Bride, William Goldman 1974 - The Spy Get Out! ", John Le Carré 1975 -" Shogun ", James Clavell 1976 -" Songs of Pern ", Anne McCaffrey 1977 -" The Shining ", Stephen King 1978 -" The World Through the Eyes of Garp ", John Irving 1979 -" History of the End which does not exist ", Michael Ende
1980 - "The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco 1981 - "Children of Midnight", Salman Rushdie 1982 - "House of Spirits", Isabel Allende 1983 - "The Color of Magic", Terry Pratchett 1984 - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Milan Kundera 1985 - "Perfume ", Patrick Suskind 1986 -" It ", Stephen King 1987 -" The Keepers ", Alan Moore 1988 -" The Alchemist ", Paolo Coelho 1989 -" The Joy and Luck Club ", Amy Tan
1990 - "Jurassic Park", Michael Crichton 1991 - "The World of Sophia", Yustein Gorder 1992 - "The Secret History", Donna Tartt 1993 - "The Virgin Suicides", Eugenides Jeffrey 1994 - "The Clockwork Bird Chronicle", Haruki Murakami 1995 - Blindness, Jose Saramago 1996 - Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin 1997 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. J. K. Rowling 1998 - The Watch, Michael Cunningham 1999 - It's Good to Be Quiet, Stephen Chbosky
2000 - Life of Pi, Yann Martel 2001 - The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd 2002 - The Lovely Bones, Alice Siebold 2003 - The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger 2004 - Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 2005 - "The Book Thief", Markus Zusak
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