• Source: Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959.
The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.




1950


The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
Joy Street by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
The Wall by John Hersey
Star Money by Kathleen Winsor
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
Floodtide by Frank Yerby
Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow
The Adventurer by Mika Waltari
The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg




1951


From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Moses by Sholem Asch
The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
A Woman Called Fancy by Frank Yerby
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand
Return to Paradise by James A. Michener
The Foundling by Cardinal Spellman
The Wanderer by Mika Waltari




1952


The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Giant by Edna Ferber
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Gown of Glory by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
The Saracen Blade by Frank Yerby
The Houses in Between by Howard Spring




1953


The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
Desirée by Annemarie Selinko
Battle Cry by Leon M. Uris
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann
Beyond This Place by A. J. Cronin
Time and Time Again by James Hilton
Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger
The Unconquered by Ben Ames Williams




1954


Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson
Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
Love Is Eternal by Irving Stone
The Royal Box by Frances Parkinson Keyes
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso
Never Victorious, Never Defeated by Taylor Caldwell
Benton's Row by Frank Yerby




1955


Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
Something of Value by Robert Ruark
Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson
No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain
Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara




1956


Don't Go Near the Water by William Brinkley
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
The Tribe That Lost Its Head by Nicholas Monsarrat
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts




1957


By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Compulsion by Meyer Levin
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman
Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand




1958


Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
From the Terrace by John O'Hara
Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson
Ice Palace by Edna Ferber
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
The Enemy Camp by Jerome Weidman
Victorine by Frances Parkinson Keyes




1959


Exodus by Leon Uris
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Hawaii by James A. Michener
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Ugly American by Eugene L. Burdick
Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Poor No More by Robert Ruark




References

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• Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2020s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1990s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1980s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2000s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1970s
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s