Except for one, not big among LT, but 6 of the 10 were on the list for two years.

1. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has 445 owners and 3 reviews, more of a young adult book. Set amongst deer in Florida. On the 1939 list at #7.

2. The Citadel by A. J. Cronin has 120 owners with 3 reviews. Was #3 in 1937 (Medical)

3. My Son, My Son by Howard Spring has 9 owners, no reviews. (British tragic romance)

4. Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier has 2,528 owners and 45 reviews. Was #3 in 1939. (gothic mystery)

5. Northwest Passage by Kenneth Lewis Roberts has 130 owners and 2 reviews. (French & Indian War) Was #2 in 1937

6. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field has 31 owners and 1 review. #2 in 1939. (French-U.S. romance). Field is better known for her Hitty, her first hundred years.

7. The Rains Came: a novel of modern India by Louis Bromfield has 33 owners (0 reviews). #9 in in 1939

8. "And Tell of Time" by Laura Krey. No owners. 494 libraries in worldcat have this. (Texas during Reconstruction).

9. The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome has 6 owners (0 reviews). (coming of age in Germany). Bottome is a pseudonym for Phyllis Forbes-Dennis.

10. Action at Aquila by Hervey Allen has 5 owners (0 reviews). (Civil War)

Edited: Finally got the Touchstones to work right!

Message edited by its author, Sep 6, 2007, 6:20pm.

Many of the Touchstones went wrong on my edit, and are now quite intractable. #1, 2, 3, & 5 have the wrong works in Touchstones.

Message edited by its author, Sep 6, 2007, 3:24pm.

I have read #2, #4 and #7. I know that #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 were made into films - twice for number 7, The Rains Came and I liked the book and the Myrna Loy/Tyrone Power/George Brent film version. Both are dated, however.

There are certainly a lot of LT copies of Rebecca!

I've read Rebecca of course. Liked the book better than the movie. I thought Mr. deWinter or whatever his name was was a real stinker and couldn't understand the attraction. I saw the movie version of The Yearling. I can still remember Ma blowing away the deer. Sniff. Not familiar with the rest of them.

My fifth grade teacher read The Yearling aloud to us in class after lunch. She also read The Call of the Wild to us that year. One of my favorite teachers of all time.

# 8 is kind of sad. On the bestseller list for the year 1938, and not even one copy on LT? That's only 69 years ago. Doesn't take long for some things to fade away into the dustbin of time.

was forced to read The Yearling in the 5th grade and hated it. I tried to read it again last year couldn't get over my 40 year hatred of this book, which is a shame because it relly is a good story.

The Citadel is on my to be read pile.
I have read A. J. Cronins The Keys of the Kingdom which I highly recommend.

Message edited by its author, Oct 22, 2007, 6:12pm.

US Non-Fiction

1. The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang 149 copies on LT

2. With Malice Toward Some, Margaret Halsey 25 copies

3. Madame Curie, Eve Curie 159 copies

4. Listen! The Wind, Anne Morrow Lindbergh 23 copies

5. The Horse and Buggy Doctor, Arthur E. Hertzler 16 copies

6. How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie 1,733 copies

7. Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren 5 copies

8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Ogden Nash 63 copies

9. Alone, Richard E. Byrd 70 copies

10. Fanny Kemble, Margaret Armstrong 15 copies

Message edited by its author, Dec 26, 2007, 12:31pm.

I am going to try to get a library copy of The Importance of Living. About 10 libraries in Nassau County still retain it in their collections.

Both my father, and then my sepfather were pilots and so had a sense of adventure, so one of them brought Alone (redid the Touchstone) into our library when I was growing up. But my memory is vague, and I think I looked at it without reading it.

Madame Curie, I think, was a major read of my mother, and possibly influenced her later involvement in cataloging a specialized collection of radiology at the Harvard Medical School Library.

Message edited by its author, Dec 26, 2007, 11:11am.

I highly recommend Alone by Admiral Byrd to anyone interested in adventure, survival, or arctic exploration. I read it last year and enjoyed it very much.

I have read none of these

I own Action at Aquila and Northwest Passage but haven't read either yet.