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HARDCOVER NONFICTION YEAR-BY-YEAR 1912-2002 |
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HARDCOVER NONFICTION YEAR-BY-YEAR 1912-2002 |
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About 8 weeks after the end of each year, Publishers Weekly reviews the previous year's sales of books in the United States and reports on the year's best sellers. That data combined with a summary presentation appearing in David Wallechinsky's The Twentieth Century and Alice Payne Hackett's 70 Years of Best Sellers provides the source of data for the following table.
| 2002 | Phillip C. McGraw | Self Matters |
| 2001 | Bruce Wilkinson | The Prayer of Jabez |
| 2000 | Spencer Johnson | Who Moved My Cheeze? |
| 1999 | Mitch Alborn | Tuesdays with Morrie |
| 1998 | Suze Orman Crown | The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom |
| 1997 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes |
| 1996 | Oprah Winfrey & Bob Greene | Make the Connection |
| 1995 | John Gray | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus |
| 1994 | Rosie Daley | In the Kitchen with Rosie |
| 1993 | Rush Limbaugh | See I Told You So |
| 1992 | Rush Limbaugh | The Way Things Ought to Be |
| 1991 | Katharine Hepburn | Me: Stories of My Life |
| 1990 | Charles Kuralt | A Life on the Road |
| 1989 | Robert Fulghum | All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten |
| 1988 | Robert E. Kowalski | The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure |
| 1987 | Bill Cosby | Time Flies |
| 1986 | Bill Cosby | Fatherhood |
| 1985 | Lee Iacocca with William Novak | Iacocca: An Autobiography |
| 1984 | Lee Iacocca with William Novak | Iacocca: An Autobiography |
| 1983 | Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr. | In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies |
| 1982 | Jane Fonda | Jane Fonda's Workout Book |
| 1981 | Judy Mazel | The Beverly Hills Diet |
| 1980 | Douglas R. Casey | Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression |
| 1979 | Erma Bombeck | Aunt Erma's Cope Book |
| 1978 | Erma Bombeck | If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries - What Am I Doing in the Pits |
| 1977 | Alex Haley | Roots |
| 1976 | Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | The Final Days |
| 1975 | Billy Graham | Angels: God's Secret Agents |
| 1974 | Marabel Morgan | The Total Woman |
| 1973 | Kenneth Taylor | The Living Bible |
| 1972 | Kenneth Taylor | The Living Bible |
| 1971 | "M" | The Sensuous Man |
| 1970 | David Reuben | Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask |
| 1969 | William Morris, editor | American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |
| 1968 | Better Homes and Gardens | Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book |
| 1967 | William Manchester | The Death of a President |
| 1966 | Norman F. Dacey | How to Avoid Probate |
| 1965 | Dan Greenburg | How to Be a Jewish Mother |
| 1964 | American Heritage & United Press International | Four Days |
| 1963 | Charles M. Schulz | Happiness Is a Warm Puppy |
| 1962 | Herman Taler | Calories Don't Count |
| 1961 | The New English Bible: The New Testament | |
| 1960 | D. C. Jarvis | Folk Medicine |
| 1959 | Pat Boone | 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty |
| 1958 | Art Linkletter | Kids Say the Darndest Things! |
| 1957 | Art Linkletter | Kids Say the Darndest Things! |
| 1956 | Dan Dale Alexander | Arthritis and Common Sense |
| 1955 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Gift from the Sea |
| 1954 | The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version | |
| 1953 | The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version | |
| 1952 | The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version | |
| 1951 | Gayelord Hauser | Look Younger, Live Longer |
| 1950 | Betty Crocker | Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book |
| 1949 | Clare Barnes Jr. | White Collar Zoo |
| 1948 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Crusade in Europe |
| 1947 | Joshua Loth Liebman | Peace of Mind |
| 1946 | Betty MacDonald | The Egg and I |
| 1945 | Ernie Pyle | Brave Men |
| 1944 | Bob Hope | I Never Left Home |
| 1943 | John Roy Carlson | Under Cover |
| 1942 | Marion Hargrove | See Here, Private Hargrove |
| 1941 | William L. Shirer | Berlin Diary |
| 1940 | Osa Johnson | I Married Adventure |
| 1939 | Pierre van Paassen | Days of Our Years |
| 1938 | Lin Yutang | The Importance of Living |
| 1937 | Dale Carnegie | How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| 1936 | Alexis Carrel | Man the Unknown |
| 1935 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | North to the Orient |
| 1934 | Alexander Woolcott | While Rome Burns |
| 1933 | Walter B. Pitkin | Life Begins at Forty |
| 1932 | James Truslow Adams | The Epic of America |
| 1931 | Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia | Education of a Princess |
| 1930 | Axel Munthe | The Story of San Michele |
| 1929 | Ernest Dimnet | The Art of Thinking |
| 1928 | Andre Maurois | Disraeli |
| 1927 | Will Durant | The Story of Philosophy |
| 1926 | Bruce Barton | The Man Nobody Knows |
| 1925 | Lulu Hunt Peters | Diet and Health |
| 1924 | Lulu Hunt Peters | Diet and Health |
| 1923 | Emily Post | Etiquette |
| 1922 | H. G. Wells | The Outline of History |
| 1921 | H. G. Wells | The Outline of History |
| 1920 | Philip Gibbs | Now It Can Be Told |
| 1919 | Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams |
| 1918 | Robert W. Service | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man |
| 1917 | Robert W. Service | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man |
| 1916 | Records not kept | |
| 1915 | Records not kept | |
| 1914 | Records not kept | |
| 1913 | Gerald Stanley Lee | Crowds |
| 1912 | Mary Antin | The Promised Land |
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