The most popular books of the year were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith and Strange Fruit, by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top.
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A "sleeper" success, A Tree Grows had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot.
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