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1964 Books & Bestsellers |
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1964 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré 2. Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg 3. Herzog by Saul Bellow 4. Armageddon by Leon Uris 5. The Man by Irving Wallace 6. The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss 7. The Martyred by Richard E. Kim 8. You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming 9. This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart 10. Convention by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II |
1964 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Four Days by American Heritage and United Press International 2. I Need All the Friends I Can Get by Charles M. Schulz 3. John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition by John F. Kennedy 4. In His Own Write by John Lennon 5. Christmas Is Together-Time by Charles M. Schulz 6. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy by Jim Bishop 7. The Kennedy Wit, edited by Bill Adler 8. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9. Reminiscences by General Douglas MacArthur 10. The John F. Kennedys by Mark Shaw |
1964 Notable Literature |
| Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison Herzog by Saul Bellow One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse The Uses of the University by Clark Kerr Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Surgeon General’s Office, Smoking and Health by Luther L. Terry, MD et al. Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr Human Capital by Gary Becker Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan |
1964 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| William Shakespeare: A Biography by A.L. Rowse Von Ryan’s Express by David Westheimer When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith Paris in the Terror by Stanley Loomis The Blind Heart by Storm Jameson Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Life and Death of Lenin by Robert Payne The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss Children and Others by James Gould Cozzens Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow An Autobiography by Charles Chaplin Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake The New Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West |
| 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1964, according to GoodReads |