A Bluestocking Knits

Booking Through Thursday is basing this week’s questions on a list of previous years’ bestsellers.

In 1956, these were the top ten fiction bestsellers for the year:

1. Which ones have you read? Did you like them? Yikes! I think the only one I’ve actually read is Eloise, and that must have taken all of half an hour.  I doubled my "read them!" score when I looked at the nonfiction list for the same year — The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein and A Nun’s Story by Kathryn Hulme!
2. If you haven’t read a single one, which ones have you heard of? Peyton Place, of course, and Auntie Mame.  I read Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse and wasn’t terribly impressed.  All of these titles are vaguely familiar, at least, thanks to years of shelving in the fiction section!
3. Will you be putting any of these books in your reading list? I had to look up most of the synopses on Amazon to answer this question — I might try Boon Island, an historical shipwreck/survival novel.  The Monsarrat looks very salacious, doesn’t it! — I wonder if the cover has anything to do with the actual story….