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Does Live Alone and Like It hold up?
Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman, by Marjorie Hillis (1936)
The first bestseller on living alone: a Vogue editor's cheerful, practical guide for the 'live-aloner'.
The short answer
Its sales claim holds in substance; its current British cover calls it a novel, which it is not.
The claims, checked
It sold more than 100,000 copies in its first two months (current British edition).
Holds with conditions Time reported in 1937 that it had sold more than 100,000 copies within two months. Other accounts give one or three months; all agree on more than 100,000 within months.
It is a best-selling novel (current British edition).
Does not hold It is a book of advice, and it appeared on the non-fiction lists of 1936.
Evidence: Hachette UK, edition page