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1965 Books & Bestsellers |
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1965 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Source by James A. Michener 2. Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman 3. Herzog by Saul Bellow 4. The Looking Glass War by John Le Carr 5. The Green Berets by Robin Moore 6. Those Who Love by Irving Stone 7. The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming 8. Hotel by Arthur Hailey 9. The Ambassador by Morris West 10. Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk |
1965 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. How To Be a Jewish Mother by Dan Greenburg 2. A Gift of Prophecy by Ruth Montgomery 3. Games People Play by Eric Berne 4. World Aflame by Billy Graham 5. Happiness Is a Dry Martini by Johnny Carson 6. Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld 7. A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger Jr 8. My Shadow Ran Fast by Bill Sands 9. Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen 10. The Making of the President, 1964 by Theodore H. White |
1965 Notable Literature |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X The Secular City by Harvey Cox Beyond Culture by Lionel Trilling Dune by Frank Herbert For Marx by Louis Althusser The Colonizer and Colonized by Albert Memmi The Negro Family by Daniel Patrick Moynihan The Logic of Collective Action by Mancur Olson, Jr Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader |
1965 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| A Covenant with Death by Stephen Becker Full Fathom Five by John Steward Carter White Lotus by John Hersey Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk Wild Heritage by Sally Carrighar The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison The Source by James A. Michener Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait by Violet Bonham Carter The Liberation of Lord Byron by Jesse Hill Ford Never Call Retreat by Bruce Catton The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen Family by Margaret Mead and Ken Heyman A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger Jr |
| 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1965, according to GoodReads |