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1969 Books & Bestsellers |
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1969 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 2. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 3. The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann 4. The Inheritors by Harold Robbins 5. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 6. The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace 7. Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe 8. The Promise by Chaim Potok 9. The Pretenders by Gwen Davis 10. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier |
1969 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language edited by William Morris 2. In Someone’s Shadow by Rod McKuen 3. The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull 4. Between Parent and Teenager by Dr. Haim G. Ginott 5. The Graham Kerr Cookbook by The Galloping Gourmet 6. The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss 7. Miss Craig’s 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women by Marjorie Craig 8. My Life and Prophecies by Jeane Dixon with René Noorbergen 9. Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs by Linda Goodman 10. Twelve Years of Christmas by Rod McKuen |
1969 Notable Literature |
| Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles Present at Creation by Dean Acheson Ubik by Philip K. Dick Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria, Jr American Power and the New Mandarins by Noam Chomsky The Left Hand of Darkness byUrsula K. Le Guin On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross The Making of a Counter-Culture by Theodor Roszak I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou |
1969 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Sleep of Reason by C.P. Snow Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton Ernest Hemingway by Carlos Baker An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 by Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson and Bruce Page On Borrowed Time by Leonard Mosley The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Bullet Park by John Cheever A Long Row of Candles by C.L. Sulzberger The Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck The Americans by J.C. Furnas The French: Portait of a People by Sanche de Gramont In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris Only One Year by Svetlana Alliluyeva Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault |
| 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1969, according to GoodReads |