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IN THE U.S. AS OF JANUARY 1, 1996 |
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IN THE U.S. AS OF JANUARY 1, 1996 |
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Publishers Weekly was the source of the following data that was
reprinted in Time Almanac 2000.
The top-ten best-sellers issued in harcover and in paperback are shown
in the following table. The date of publication is shown in parentheses
after the title.
HARDCOVERS
| 1 | Janet Sebring Lowrey | The Poky Little Puppy (1942) |
| 2 | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) |
| 3 | Gertrude Crampton | Tootle (1945) |
| 4 | Kathryn & Byron Jackson | Saggy Baggy Elephant (1955) |
| 5 | Gertrude Crampton | Scuffy the Tugboat (1955) |
| 6 | Dorothy Kunhardt | Pat the Bunny (1940) |
| 7 | Dr. Seuss | Green Eggs and Ham (1960) |
| 8 | DR. Seuss | The Cat in the Hat (1957) |
| 9 | Charles Tazewell | The Littlest Angel (1946) |
| 10 | Dr. Seuss | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960) |
PAPERBACKS
| 1 | E. B. White | Charlotte's Web (1974) |
| 2 | S. E. Hinton | The Outsiders (1968) |
| 3 | Judy Blume | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1976) |
| 4 | Jack Schaeffer | Shane (1983) |
| 5 | Judy Blume | Are You There God? It's Me Margaret (1972) |
| 6 | Wilson Rawls | Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) |
| 7 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time (1973) |
| 8 | Scott O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins (1971) |
| 9 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little House on the Prairie (1971) |
| 10 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little House in the Big Woods (1971) |
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