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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.

Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909 – July 2, 1998) was an American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer. She became famous for creating the Eloise children's books and for her role in the film Funny Face.
Björn Försterling
Björn Försterling (born 23 July 1982 in Wolfenbüttel) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony from 2008 to 2022.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Försterling was part of his party's delegation in the working group on education policy, co-chaired by Andreas Stoch, Felix Banaszak and Jens Brandenburg.

Jens Brandenburg
Jens Brandenburg (born 8 March 1986) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2025.

In addition to his parliamentary work, Brandenburg served as Parliamentary State Secretary to Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger from 2021 to 2024.
Michal Krištof
Michal Krištof (born October 11, 1993) is a Slovak professional ice hockey center playing for the SCL Tigers in Switzerland's National League (NL).

Krištof made his Liiga debut with Vaasan Sport during the 2014–15 season, playing two games for the team. He also played in the Slovak Extraliga for HK Nitra and the Czech Extraliga with HC Kometa Brno.

Slovak Extraliga
The Slovak Extraliga, known as the Tipsport liga since the 2025–26 season for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level ice hockey league in Slovakia. From 2018–19 to 2020–21, the league included one or two teams from Hungary.

Teams from the Extraliga can participate in the IIHF's annual Champions Hockey League (CHL). Participation is based on the strength of the various leagues in Europe (excluding the KHL). In the 2022–23 CHL season, the Extraliga was ranked the No. 10 league in Europe, so the champion of the previous season competed in the CHL.

The 1993–94 season was the first of the Slovak Extraliga following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season – which all Slovak and Czech teams played to completion.
Tinatin Lekveishvili
Tinatin "Tina" Lekveishvili (Georgian: თინათინ ლეკვეიშვილი, born 2 January 1954) is a retired Georgian backstroke swimmer who won three medals at the 1970 European Aquatics Championships setting the European record in the 100 m backstroke event. She also participated in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics and finished fourth with the Soviet 4×100 medley relay team in both games. Between 1968 and 1972 she dominated Soviet championships and set three national records in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke events. She graduated from the Tbilisi Medical Institute.

Backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It also has a different start from the other three competition swimming styles. The swimming style is similar to an upside down front crawl or freestyle. Both backstroke and front crawl are long-axis strokes. In individual medley backstroke is the second style swum; in the medley relay it is the first style swum.
Arentz
Arentz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Bjarne Arentz (1928–2017), Norwegian alpine skier

Charles Arentz (1878–1968), Norwegian sailor

Dick Arentz (born 1935), American fine art photographer and author

Frederik Arentz (1702–1779), Norwegian Lutheran bishop

Hans Severin Arentz (1806–1875), Norwegian politician

Samuel S. Arentz (1879–1934), American politician

Steven J. Arentz (born 1951), American politician

Dick Arentz
Dick Arentz (born May 19, 1935) is an American fine art photographer and author, known for his textbook on platinum-palladium printing. Arentz's text book, Platinum & Palladium Printing, Focal Press. 1st edition (1999), 2nd edition (2004) "is known in online forums and industry magazines as the most comprehensive book on the subject." Other photography insiders such as Dr. Michael J. Ware and Bill Jay have commended the author as a master-craftsman in platinum-palladium printing. Arentz has mentored other photographers in the platinum-palladium printing process by conducting more than 40 workshops for organizations such as The Center for Creative Photography, The Friends of Photography and The Museum of Photographic Arts. His work was displayed at over fifty one-man exhibits in museums and private galleries in the US and Europe.
Cantus Arcticus
Cantus Arcticus, also known as Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, is a three-part orchestral work by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara that incorporates tape recordings of birdsong.

Commissioned by Oulu University for its first doctoral conferment ceremony, Cantus Arcticus was premiered in Oulu on 18 October 1972 by the Oulu Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stephen Portman. The score was published the same year. The work is dedicated to Urho Kekkonen, who was president of Finland at the time.: 3

Cantus Arcticus has enjoyed wide popularity.: 200  The reasons cited include the work's resemblance to familiar tonal music; the way it links music with nature by using recorded birdsong; the novelty of combining such recordings with a live orchestra; and its association with an idealised and exoticised version of Finland's culture and landscape.: 255–259  The work's appeal is also shown by its use in other musical contexts, including jazz compositions and film music.: 257

Oulu Symphony Orchestra
The Oulu Symphony Orchestra (Finnish: Oulu Sinfonia or Oulun kaupunginorkesteri) is a Finnish orchestra based in Oulu, Finland.  Oulu Sinfonia gives concerts primarily at the Oulu Music Centre, in the Madetojan sali (Madetoja Concert Hall), located in the Karjasilta district, and named for Leevi Madetoja, who was born in Oulu.
Gull (train)
The Gull was an international passenger train service between Boston, United States, and Halifax, Canada, which operated from 1930 to 1960. Journey time was approximately 24 hours. Westbound trains left Halifax shortly after breakfast and crossed the Canada–United States border in the late evening, as eastbound trains were leaving Boston's North Station to cross the border about dawn. Travel was over the Boston and Maine Railroad from Boston to Portland, Maine, then over the Maine Central Railroad to the border between Vanceboro, Maine, and Saint Croix, New Brunswick, then over the Canadian Pacific Railway to Saint John, New Brunswick, and over the Canadian National Railway to Halifax.

North Station
North Station is a commuter rail and intercity rail terminal station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is served by four MBTA Commuter Rail lines – the Fitchburg Line, Haverhill Line, Lowell Line, and Newburyport/Rockport Line – and the Amtrak Downeaster intercity service. The concourse is located under the TD Garden arena, with the platforms extending north towards drawbridges over the Charles River. The eponymous subway station, served by the Green Line and Orange Line, is connected to the concourse with an underground passageway.
Nijgadh
Nijgadh (Nepali: निजगढ, officially Nijgadh Municipality), is a town and municipality in Nepal, located in Bara District of the Madhesh Province (previously Narayani Zone of Central Development Region). The total area of the municipality is 289.4 sq. km. The municipality was formed on 8 May 2014 (25 Baisakh 2071 BS) by merging Nijgadh VDC with Ratnapuri VDC and Bharatganj Singaul VDC.

According to the preliminary report of 2021 Nepalese census, the population of the municipality is 36,591, the fifth highest in the district. It is located 135 kilometres (84 mi) south of the capital, Kathmandu, and 31 kilometres (19 mi) north of the district headquarter, Kalaiya. The Mahendra highway passes through the municipality. The nearest domestic airport, Simara Airport, is 24 kilometres (15 mi) away from the town.

Central Development Region, Nepal
The Central Development Region (Nepali: मध्यमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र, Madhyamānchal Bikās Kshetra) was one of Nepal's five development regions.  It was located in the east-central part of the country consisting of the capital city Kathmandu, along with its headquarters at Hetauda.

Before the adoption of provinces in 2015, it comprised three zones:

Bagmati

Narayani

Janakpur
Hiplife
Hiplife is a Ghanaian musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop.  Recorded predominantly in the Ghanaian Akan language, hiplife is rapidly gaining popularity in the 2010s throughout West Africa and abroad, especially in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Germany.

Richie Mensah
Richie Mensah (born 17 May 1986), better known by his stage name Richie, is a Ghanaian singer-songwriter and record producer.  After producing records for several artists, Richie set up Lynx Entertainment record label and released his debut album All of Me on the label in 2008. He has since then gone on to win several awards both as a singer and record producer and is fast establishing himself as one of the biggest names in the Ghanaian music industry. In 2025, the Grammy names him as a voting Academy member for the 68th Awards.
Brockdish
Brockdish is a village and civil parish in the south of the English county of Norfolk. It is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south-west of Harleston and 18 miles (29 km) south of Norwich. The parish includes Thorpe Abbotts. The River Waveney, which marks the county border with Suffolk, is the southern boundary of the parish, with Brockdish the highest point where the river is navigable by small watercraft.

In the Domesday Book, Brockdish is recorded as a settlement of 39 households in the hundred of Earsham. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of William the Conqueror and Bury St Edmunds Abbey.

At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 699, a slight increase from the 2011 census.

Harleston, Norfolk
Harleston is a town in the civil parish of Redenhall with Harleston, in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is 16 miles (26 km) from Norwich. In 2018, it had an estimated population of 5,067. Harleston is on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, close to the River Waveney. Harleston has two markets every Wednesday.

Harleston is an electoral ward comprising the civil parishes of Needham, Redenhall with Harleston, and Wortwell. At the last election, in May 2019, two Conservative councillors were elected to South Norfolk Council.
Maurice Choisy
Maurice Gustave Benoît Choisy (29 June 1897 – 19 June 1966) was a French mycologist and lichenologist. He was a member of the Botanical Society of France, the Mycological Society of France, and the Linnean Society of Lyon. He was president of the botanical section of the latter society from 1949 to 1950.

Species named after Choisy include Dermatocarpon choisyi D.D.Awasthi (1965); Haematomma choisyi Werner (1932); and Lecidea choisyi Werner (1932).

Mycology
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and infection. Yeasts are among the most heavily utilized members of the fungus kingdom, particularly in food manufacturing.

Mycology branches into the field of phytopathology, the study of plant diseases. The two disciplines are closely related, because the vast majority of plant pathogens are fungi. A biologist specializing in mycology is called a mycologist.
Willow and Stumpy
Willow and Stumpy is an animated feature on the Sky Sports TV channel in the United Kingdom. It is accessible using the red button on the remote control when Live Cricket is being shown.

The feature is designed to aid understanding of the rules of cricket, often using diagrams as a visual aid. Willow, the seasoned cricket bat, answers questions put by the younger, more naïve Stumpy, who is one of the stumps.

Cricket bat
A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batters in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade. It may also be used by a batter who is making batter's ground to avoid a run out, by holding the bat and touching the ground with it. The length of the bat may be no more than 38 inches (96.5 cm) and the width no more than 4.25 inches (10.8 cm). Its use is first mentioned in 1624. Since 1979, a law change has dictated that cricket bats can only be made from wood.
Bhalgamda
Bhalgamda is a village and former princely state on Saurashtra, Gujarat, India.

The village  in Dhandhuka Taluka of Ahmedabad district is situated eight miles north-west of Bhoika and only two miles north of the Limbdi railway station.

Dhandhuka taluka
Dhandhuka is a taluka of Ahmedabad District, India. A taluka is a district subdivision in India that is in charge of managing and collecting taxes for a specific area inside the district. Dhandhuka is capital of Dhandhuka Taluka.
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a 2010 kart racing video game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Sega. It was released for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, and Windows, featuring characters from multiple Sega franchises. The game is the third title in the Sega All-Stars series, preceded by Sega Superstars Tennis. A mobile version was developed by Gameloft, and released for iOS in June 2011, as a paid download. A version for OS X was released by Feral Interactive in April 2013.

The game received mostly positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, was released in 2012, featuring more characters and representing a wide-variety of Sega-owned franchises.

Gameloft
Gameloft SE is a French major video game company based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 11 development studios worldwide, and publishes games for mobile devices, video game consoles, and PC. Formerly a public company traded at the Paris Bourse, Gameloft was acquired by investment french company Vivendi in 2016.
Cathedral Church of All Saints (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands)
The Cathedral Church of All Saints is an Episcopal cathedral in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands and it is located in the City of Charlotte Amalie.  The church was built in 1848 in celebration of the end of slavery.  The structure was constructed from stone that was quarried on the island.  The gothic arched window frames are lined with yellow brick that was used as ballast aboard ships.  The bricks were left by merchants on the waterfront to make room on their boats for molasses, sugar, mahogany and rum for their return voyage.

Ballast
Ballast is dense material used as a weight to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Ballast, other than cargo, may be placed in a vehicle, often a ship or the gondola of a balloon or airship, to provide stability. A compartment within a boat, ship, submarine, or other floating structure that holds water is called a ballast tank. Water can be moved in and out from the ballast tank to balance the ship.  In a vessel that travels on the water, the ballast will be kept below the water level, to counteract the effects of weight above the water level. The ballast may be redistributed in the vessel or disposed of altogether to change its effects on the movement of the vessel.
Keith McLeod
Keith McLeod (born November 5, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player and current varsity boys basketball head coach at East Canton High School in Canton, Ohio. He is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall. He has also played in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors and Indiana Pacers, in the CBA for the Yakima Sun Kings, in the USBL for the Saint Joseph Express, in the NBA D-League with the Albuquerque Thunderbirds, Canton Charge, and Erie BayHawks, and in the Italian top league for Mabo Prefabbricati Livorno, Lottomatica Virtus Roma and Montepaschi Siena.

Yakima SunKings
The Yakima SunKings were a basketball team located in Yakima, Washington, covering the central Washington sports market of Yakima, Tri-Cities, and Ellensburg and played at the Yakima SunDome. The team competed in the Continental Basketball Association from 1990 to 2008. In June 2005, the team was purchased by the Yakama Indian Nation and was renamed the Yakama Sun Kings (from Yakima to Yakama) to honor the Nation.

In 2018, a new version of the team was launched in North American Premier Basketball, which then rebranded as The Basketball League in 2019. The team won the regular season title in both seasons and won the playoff championship in 2018. The league lost western teams prior to the 2020 season and the new SunKings decided against participation in the league.
Homodihydrocapsaicin
Homodihydrocapsaicin is a capsaicinoid and analog and congener of capsaicin in  chili peppers (Capsicum). Like capsaicin it is an irritant. Homodihydrocapsaicin accounts for about 1% of the total capsaicinoids mixture and has about half the pungency of capsaicin. Pure homodihydrocapsaicin is a lipophilic colorless odorless crystalline to waxy compound. It produces "numbing burn" in the throat and is  one of the most prolonged and difficult to rinse out. On the Scoville scale it has 8,600,000 SHU (Scoville heat units).

Lipophilicity
Lipophilicity (from Greek λίπος "fat" and φίλος "friendly") is the ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and non-polar solvents such as hexane or toluene. Such compounds are called lipophilic (translated as "fat-loving" or "fat-liking"). Such non-polar solvents are themselves lipophilic, and the adage "like dissolves like" generally holds true. Thus lipophilic substances tend to dissolve in other lipophilic substances, whereas hydrophilic ("water-loving") substances tend to dissolve in water and other hydrophilic substances.

Lipophilicity, hydrophobicity, and non-polarity may describe the same tendency towards participation in the London dispersion force, as the terms are often used interchangeably. However, the terms "lipophilic" and "hydrophobic" are not synonymous, as can be seen with silicones and fluorocarbons, which are hydrophobic but not lipophilic.
Sanat Kar
Sanat Kar (Bengali: সনৎ কর) (29 July 1935 – 9 January 2023) was a prominent Indian painter and printmaker. He is one of the pioneers of modern Indian printmaking and is known for his experiments with wood intaglio.

Lalit Kala Akademi
The Lalit Kala Akademi or National Academy of Art (LKA) is India's national academy of fine arts. It is an autonomous organisation, established in New Delhi in 1954 by Government of India to promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, in and outside the country.

LKA provides scholarships and a fellow program, and sponsors and organises exhibitions in India and overseas. It publishes a bilingual journal. It is funded by the Union Ministry of Culture. Its headquarters are at Ravindra Bhawan, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi.
Sanskaar Laxmi
Sanskaar Laxmi is an Indian television drama series which premiered on Zee TV on 17 January 2011 to 8 September 2011. The series is based on the life of a poor village girl, Laxmi who gets married into a rich Gujarati family in Mumbai. The story shows how a less educated but worldly wise, mature and extremely talented Laxmi overcomes obstacles to settle down in her life.

Zee TV
ZEE TV, also known as Z TV, is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 1 October 1992 as the oldest privately owned television channel in India. It now broadcasts worldwide.
Krios (stream)
The Krios (Greek: Κριός, Latin: Crius) is a stream (little river) in the municipal unit of Aigeira, in Achaea, southern Greece. It is 20.3 km (12.6 mi) long. Its source is on Mount Chelmos, near the village of Perithori. It flows near the ancient city of Felloi and the villages of Sinevro, Oasi and the Mycenaean acropolis of ancient Aigeira. The stream empties into the Gulf of Corinth near Aigeira.

Acropolis
An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens, yet nearly every Greek city had an acropolis of its own. Acropolises were used as religious centers and places of worship, forts, and places in which the royal and high-status resided. Acropolises became the nuclei of large cities of classical ancient times, and served as important centers of a community. Some well-known acropolises have become the centers of tourism in the present day, and they are a rich source of archaeological information of ancient Greece, especially, the Acropolis of Athens.
1938 New Zealand general election
The 1938 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 26th term. It resulted in the governing Labour Party being re-elected in a landslide, winning nearly 56% of the vote despite not gaining any more seats. Having replaced the United-Reform coalition, the newly founded National Party also gained a certain amount of ground.

This was the first election in which the Māori were given a secret ballot which had been available to white voters since 1870.

United–Reform Coalition
The United–Reform Coalition, also known as the National Political Federation from May 1935, was a coalition between two of the three major parties of New Zealand, the United and Reform parties, from 1931 to 1936.  This United–Reform coalition government of New Zealand was first formed in September 1931 and successfully contested the 1931 general election in December that year.  Then in the form of the National Political Federation, the coalition was defeated at the 1935 general election by Labour. In May 1936, United and Reform formally ceased to exist with their members jointly having decided to form a new party, the New Zealand National Party.

Primarily the coalition was formed to deal with the Great Depression which began in 1929. Despite their earlier support of the United government led by Ward and then Forbes, the Labour Party refused to join the coalition, as it believed that the only solution to the depression was socialism.
WOSS
WOSS (91.1 FM) was a radio station broadcasting a variety format. Licensed to Ossining, New York, United States, the station was last owned by the Ossining Union Free School District. Its license was cancelled on June 2, 2022, due to failing to file a license renewal application.

Ossining (village), New York
Ossining (/ˈɒsɪnɪŋ/ OSS-in-ing) is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population at the 2020 United States census was 27,551,  an increase from 25,060 at the 2010 census. As a village, it is located in the town of Ossining.