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, lead 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
# "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

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 Francoise 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 Francoise 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