I was curious what the best selling book was when I was born. This is the link that my search turned up: New York Times Best Seller Lists For my birth week, it was a book called Strike. Want to share yours? Know of a better link? *Edit: Bummer, I think that it meant they were ON strike during that time and none were listed, not that the book was called strike. Doggonit!!
Bestseller on the week I was born was It by Stephen King, but the day after it changed to Whirlwind by James Clavell
The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlam. Heretics of Doom by Frank Hebert and Pet Sematary by Stephen King were right behind it.
If you have a better link, please share it, by all means. I want to know what the best seller was for my birth week and they NYT was on strike then.
Well, the #1 book was Desiree by Annemarie Selinko. East of Eden by John Steinbeck and The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk were also in the top ten, though.
Mine is Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow.... I've never heard of it, but at that stage it had spent 16 weeks on the list and was number 1 in the previous week, too.
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy followed by The Firm by John Grisham. Both fine novels. The 1990s might have had some funny musicians, but they had spectacular writers!
Our birthdays must be very close, because Whirlwind, by James Clavell was the bestseller during the week I was born.
THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS - Jean M Auel I like the title but never heard of it. The other authors i recognise on the list are Anne Rice, Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King.
Mine was The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield but it was kind of it's 8th week as number one...lol
Similarly, who was the Nobel Laureate for Literature when you were born? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature
the list doesn't go back far enough to cover my birth year [1938!]... but i suspect margaret mitchell's pulitzer prize winner of the year before would still have been on it... anyone know what that was?... hint: one of the most popular books of all time, [selling 30 million + copies] it was released as a film in '39, to become the highest-grossing movie in the history of hollywood and grabbed a record-breaking 10 oscars...
Best-seller was The Bridges of Madison County-Robert James Waller, Dragon Tears-Dean Koontz was close behind, never heard of the rest. Nobel Laureate was Toni Morrison.