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,
Lists of The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers Lists of The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers This is a list of lists by year of "The New York Times" Non-Fiction Best Sellers. "The New York Times" Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931. It consisted of five fiction and four non-fiction for the New York City region only. The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with a separate list for each city. By the early 1940s, fourteen cities were included. A national list was created April 9, 1942 in "The New York Times Book Review" (Sundays) as a supplement