10. Record stores
9. Camera film manufacturing
8. Crop dusters
7. Gay bars
6. Newspapers
5. Pay phones
4. Used bookstores
3. Piggy banks
2. Telemarketing
1. Coin-operated arcades
According to Entrepreneur.com
According to Time Magazine, these are the The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot
1 - India - 10.7 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
2 - Thailand - 9.4 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
3 - China - 8 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
4 - Philippines - 7.6 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
5 - Egypt - 7.5 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
6 - Czech Republic - 7.4 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
7 - Russia - 7.1 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
8 - Sweden - 6.9 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
9 - France - 6.9 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
10 - Hungary - 6.8 Weekly Hours Spent Reading
Source: NOP world
2000 - Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
2001 - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2002 - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2003 - An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
2004 - A Nation Under Our Feet (ISBN 0674011694) by Steven Hahn
2005 - Washington’s Crossing (ISBN 0195170342) by David Hackett Fischer
2006 - TBD
2007 - TBD
2008 - TBD
2009 - TBD
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
1990 - In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991 - A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992 - The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993 - The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994 - None awarded
1995 - No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996 - William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1997 - Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998 - Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1999 - Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
1980 - Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1981 - American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1982 - Mary Chesnut’s Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
1983 - The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1984 - None awarded
1985 - Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McGraw
1986 - …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1987 - Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1988 - The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1989 - TIE
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
1970 - Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson
1971 - Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1972 - Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1973 - People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
1974 - The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975 - Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1976 - Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1977 - The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher
1978 - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1979 - The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
1960 - In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1961 - Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1962 - The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1963 - Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964 - Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965 - The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1966 - The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
1967 - Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1968 - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1969 - Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
1950 - Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
1951 - The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
1952 - The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
1953 - The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
1954 - A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1955 - Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1956 - The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1957 - Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by
George F. Kennan
1958 - Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1959 - The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
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