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1961 Books & Bestsellers |
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1961 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone 2. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Mila 18 by Leon Uris 5. The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins 6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 7. Winnie Ille Pu by A.A. Milne translated by Alexander Lenard (Latin) 8. Daughter of Silence by Morris West 9. The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor 10. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck |
1961 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The New English Bible: The New Testament 2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer 3. Better Homes and Gardens Sewing Book by the BH&G Editors 4. Casserole Cook Book by the BH&G Editors 5. A Nation of Sheep by William Lederer 6. Better Homes and Gardens Nutrition for Your Family by the BH&G Editors 7. The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H. White 8. Calories Don’t Count by Dr. Herman Taller 9. Betty Crocker’s New Picture Cook Book: New Edition by the Betty Crocker Editors 10. Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell |
1961 Notable Literature |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault The Structure of Science by Ernest Nagel Who Governs? by Robert Dahl Asylums by Erving Goffman Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Art and Culture by Clement Greenberg The Moviegoer by Walker Percy A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The City in History by Lewis Mumford Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein |
1961 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann China Court by Rumer Godden A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone Citizen of New Salem by Paul Horgan Science and Government by C.P. Snow Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin by George F. Kennan The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore W. White Inside Europe Today by John Gunther Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case by George Waller Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton The Way of the Lantern by Audrey Erskine Lindop |
| 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1961, according to GoodReads |