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1966 Books & Bestsellers |
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1966 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 2. The Adventurers by Harold Robbins 3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton 4. Capable of Honor by Allen Drury 5. The Double Image by Helen MacInnes 6. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 7. Tell No Man by Adela Rogers St. Johns 8. Tai-Pan by James Clavell 9. The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss 10. All in the Family by Edwin O’Connor |
1966 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. How to Avoid Probate by Norman F. Dacey 2. Human Sexual Response by William Howard Masters and Virginia E. Johnston 3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4. Games People Play by Eric Berne 5. A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr 6. Everything but Money by Sam Levenson 7. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language 8. Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane 9. The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan 10. Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints by Phyllis Diller |
1966 Notable Literature |
| The Social Construction of Reality by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckerman The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao Zedong Ecrits by Jacques Lacan The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg The Magus by John Fowles La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty by Oscar Lewis Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The Order of Things by Michel Foucault Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag The Art of Memory by Francies Yates Negative Dialectics by Theodor Adorno The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore, Jr The Development of Underdevelopment by Andre Gunder Frank |
Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Embezzlers by Louis Auchincloss The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir by A.E. Hotchner Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran by Lord Charles Moran Hirohito: Emperor of Japan by Leonard Mosley Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon and Rumer Godden The Early Life of Stephen Hind by Storm Jameson The Menorah Men by Lionel Davidson The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen |
| 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1966, according to GoodReads |