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1968 Books & Bestsellers |
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1968 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Airport by Arthur Hailey 2. Couples by John Updike 3. The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes 4. A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carré 5. Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell 6. Preserve and Protect by Allen Drury 7. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 8. Vanished by Fletcher Knebel 9. Christy by Catherine Marshall 10. The Tower of Babel by Morris L. West |
1968 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by the BH&G Editors 2. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: College Edition edited by Laurence Urdang 3. Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen 4. Between Parent and Child by Haim G. Ginott 5. Lonesome Cities by Rod McKuen 6. The Doctor’s Quick Weight Loss Diet by Erwin M. Stillman and Samm Sinclair Baker 7. The Money Game by Adam Smith 8. Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows by Rod McKuen 9. The Weight Watcher’s Cook Book by Jean Nidetch 10. Better Homes and Gardens Eat and Stay Slim by the BH&G Editors |
1968 Notable Literature |
| The Double Helix by James D. Watson Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas Couples by John Updike Dispatches by Richard Herr Structuralism by Jean Piaget Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire The Politics of Ecstasy by Timothy Leary The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Pauline Kael Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver |
1968 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| To Brooklyn with Love by Gerald Green The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Sir Francis Chichester The Tower of Babel by Morris L. West Ibera by James A. Michener King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov The Triumph by John Kenneth Galbraith The Philby Conspiracy by Bruce Page, David Leitch, and Philip Knightly Or I’ll Dress You in Mourning by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer The Biological Time Bomb by Gordon Rattray Taylor Morning Noon and Night by James Gould Cozzens Man’s Rise to Civilization by Peter Farb The First Circle by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren Harding in His Times by Francis Russell |
| 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1968, according to GoodReads |