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1963 Books & Bestsellers |
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1963 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West 2. The Group by Mary McCarthy 3. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J.D. Salinger 4. Caravans by James A. Michener 5. Elizabeth Appleton by John O’Hara 6. Grandmother and the Priests by Taylor Caldwell 7. City of Night by John Rechy 8. The Glass Blowers by Daphne du Maurier 9. The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna 10. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden |
1963 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy by Charles M. Schulz 2. Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket by Charles M. Schulz 3. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth by Victor Lasky 4. Profiles in Courage: Inaugural Edition by John F. Kennedy 5. 0 Ye Jigs & Juleps! by Virginia Cary Hudson 6. Better Homes and Gardens Bread Cook Book by the BH&G Editors 7. The Pillsbury Family Cookbook by Pillsbury Company 8. I Owe Russia $1200 by Bob Hope 9. Heloise’s Housekeeping Hints by Heloise Cruse 10. Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book by the BH&G Editors |
1963 Notable Literature |
| The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter The Group by Mary McCarthy The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Beyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper Blues People by LeRoi Jones |
Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna The Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor Face of North America: The National History of a Continent by Peter Farb Where’s Annie? by Eilene Bassing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Living Sea by Jacques-Yves Cousteau with James Dugan Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton Francis Bacon: the Temper of a Man by Catherine Drinker Brown Essays by Francis Bacon The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents by James Morris Caravans by James A. Michener The Age of Louis XIV by Will and Ariel Durant The Battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden The Age of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold Love, Let Me Not Hunger by Paul Gallico The First Day of Friday by Honor Tracy |
| 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1963, according to GoodReads |