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1939

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1varielle
Redigerat: apr 22, 2008, 12:02 pm

US F I C T I O N

1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 7,743 copies on LT

2. All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field 39 copies

3. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 3,580 copies

4. Wickford Point, John P. Marquand 52 copies

5. Escape, Ethel Vance 6 copies

6. Disputed Passage, Lloyd C. Douglas 26 copies

7. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 636 copies

8. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page 2 copies

9. The Nazarene, Sholem Asch 61 copies

10. Kitty Foyle, Christopher Morley 22 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. Days of Our Years, Pierre van Paassen 20 copies

2. Reaching for the Stars, Nora Waln 6 copies

3. Inside Asia, John Gunther 33 copies

4. Autobiography with Letters, William Lyon Phelps 2 copies

5. Country Lawyer, Bellamy Partridge 8 copies

6. Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de St. Exupéry 636 copies

7. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler 691 copies

8. A Peculiar Treasure, Edna Ferber 17 copies

9. Not Peace but a Sword, Vincent Sheean 2 copies

10. Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh 33 copies

I recently read an article where they had found St. Exupery's crash site and a bracelet he was wearing at the time. The German pilot who shot him down is still alive. As irony would have it he had been an admirer and at the time had no idea who was piloting the plane with French markings.

2keren7
apr 22, 2008, 1:34 pm

Ive read zero, zilch of them :(

3Shortride
apr 22, 2008, 8:30 pm

Just The Grapes of Wrath for me.

4aviddiva
apr 23, 2008, 2:32 am

Quite a few goodies in this lot! Ive read The Grapes of Wrath, Rebecca, The Yearling, and Wind, Sand and Stars. I love Christopher Morley, but Kitty Foyle is one of the few of his I haven't read. I was kind of surprised to see Mein Kampf on this list, but I guess it makes sense.

5SanctiSpiritus
aug 26, 2008, 10:09 pm

I have the The Grapes of Wrath on my TBR List.

6SaintSunniva
mar 26, 2009, 2:30 pm

I've read The Grapes of Wrath, All This, and Heaven, too is in my house but I haven't read it yet, I read Rebecca decades ago - can't remember it though, I read The Yearling a year or so ago, after seeing a movie about the author. I like Christopher Morley's books about books, but haven't read anything else by him, eg Kitty Foyle.

7adpaton
jul 13, 2010, 8:36 am

I've read Mein Kampf and Rebecca: in my opinion, Daphne Du Maurier is the better writer.

8digifish_books
jul 13, 2010, 8:55 pm

I read The Yearling when I was about 10 or 11 years old. I found it rather disturbing. I might re-read it and see how I feel about it after so many years.

9danellender
aug 7, 2010, 6:05 pm

The Grapes of Wrath and Mein Kampf in the same year! Another era in human experience and thought. Something like what we're seeing today in terms of tumultuous change.

10vpfluke
Redigerat: aug 8, 2010, 5:17 pm

I think Mein Kampf was published in Germany in something like 1925 --
worldcat lists a 1929 date for an English Mein Kampf. Being on the bestseller list in 1939 represents to me a sense of both interest and fear.

11vpfluke
aug 8, 2010, 5:20 pm

The correct Touchstone for Not peace but a sword by Vincent Sheean is this. 10 copies in LT now.