1962 Popular Books and Bestsellers

By Joe Hummel III / December 6, 1962

1962 Books & Bestsellers

1962 Fiction Top Ten Books
(according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter 2. Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 3. A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury 4. Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk 5. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 6. Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler 7. Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II 8. The Prize by Irving Wallace 9. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone 10. The Reivers by William Faulkner
1962 Non-Fiction Books
1. Calories Don’t Count by Dr. Herman Taller 2. The New English Bible: The New Testament 3. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book: New Edition by the BH&G Editors 4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps! by Virginia Cary Hudson 5. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy by Charles M. Schulz 6. The Joy of Cooking: New Edition by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker 7. My Life in Court by Louis Nizer 8. The Rothschilds by Frederic Morton 9. Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown 10. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
1962 Notable Literature
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The Other America by Michael Harrington The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by T.S. Kuhn The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jürgen Habermas The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl Rationalism in Politics by Michael Oakeshott The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the U.S. by Fritz Machlup
1962 Book of the Month Club Selections
Twilight of Honor by Al Dewlen The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter George: An Early Autobiography by Emlyn Williams Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations by Barbara Ward The Reivers by William Faulkner Uhuru by Robert Ruark Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck A Time in the Sun by Jane Barry The Blue Nile by Alan Moorhead Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler John Adams: 1735-1826 by Page Smith
1962 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1962, according to GoodReads