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1960 Books & Bestsellers |
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1960 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 2. Hawaii by James A. Michener 3. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa 4. The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace 5. Ourselves To Know by John O’Hara 6. The Constant Image by Marcia Davenport 7. The Lovely Ambition by Mary Ellen Chase 8. The Listener by Taylor Caldwell 9. Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute 10. Sermons and Soda-Water by John O’Hara |
1960 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Folk Medicine by D.C. Jarvis 2. Better Homes and Gardens First Aid for Your Family by the BH&G Editors 3. The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook by the GFK Editors 4. May This House Be Safe from Tigers by Alexander King 5. Better Homes and Gardens Dessert Book by the BH&G Editors 6. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Ideas by the BH&G Editors 7. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer 8. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater 9. I Kid You Not by Jack Paar 10. Between You, Me and the Gatepost by Pat Boone |
1960 Notable Literature |
| The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Art and Illusion by E.H. Gombrich Rabbit, Run by John Updike The Stages of Economic Growth by W.W. Rostow Political Man by S.M. Lipset We Hold These Truths by John Courtney Murray Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman Politics and Vision by Sheldon Wolin The American Voter by Angus Campbell et al. Truth and Method by Hans Gadamer The Tin Drum by Günter Grass The End of Ideology by Daniel Bell The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Meeting with Japan by Fosco Maraini No Room in the Ark by Alan Moorehead Literature and Western Man by J.B. Priestley Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute The Edge of Day by Laurie Lee The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa The Affair by C.P. Snow The Good Years by Walter Lord Thomas Wolfe by Elizabeth Nowell Walk Egypt by Vinnie Williams The Politics of Upheaval by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Portrait of Max by S.N. Behrman The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer Peaceable Lane by Keith Wheeler The White Nile by Alan Moorehead |
| 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1960, according to GoodReads |