It Was the Best of Times selections from Supertramp's career to that point, still eschewing their first two LPs, without really adding anything to the portrait painted by the slimmer edition." All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, except where noted. It Was the Best of Times It Was the Best of Times is the third live album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in April 1999. The album title makes use of the opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. "It Was the Best of Times" was recorded in September 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England,
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1948 The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1948 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped "The New York Times" Fiction Best Seller list in 1948. The American publisher Bennett Cerf noted that there had been "only three novels published [in 1948] that were worth reading ... "Cry, The Beloved Country", "The Ides of March", and "The Naked and the Dead"." Only "Cry" did not top the list that year. A total of ten other novels did, however, with most titles spending only a few weeks at the top. The strongest performing title was "The Naked and