1967 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1967 Books & Bestsellers

1967 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. The Arrangement by Elia Kazan
2. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (tie)
2. The Chosen by Chaim Potok (tie)
4. Topaz by Leon Uris
5. Christy by Catherine Marshall
6. The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
7. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
8. The Plot by Irving Wallace
9. The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart
10. The Exhibitionist by Henry Sutton

1967 Non-Fiction Books

1. Death of a President by William Manchester
2. Misery Is a Blind Date by Johnny Carson
3. Games People Play by Eric Berne
4. Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows by Rod McKuen
5. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church by Father James Kavanaugh
6. Everything but Money by Sam Levenson
7. Our Crowd by Stephen Birmingham
8. Edgar Cayce-The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn (tie)
8. Better Homes and Gardens Favorite Ways with Chicken by the BH&G Editors (tie)
8. Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual by Phyllis Diller (tie)

1967 Notable Literature

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash
The Art of the Soluble by Peter B. Medawar
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

1967 Book of the Month Club Selections

The Captain by Jan de Hartog
Madame Sarah by Cornelia Otis Skinner
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Inside South America by John Gunther
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
The Death of a President by William Manchester
The Thousand Hour Day by W.S. Kuniczak
The War Years, 1939-1945 by Harold Nicholson
The Chinese Looking Glass by Dennis Bloodworth
An Operational Necessity by Gwyn Griffen
Night Falls on the City by Sarah Gainham
Rousseau and Revolution by Will and Ariel Durant
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
Memoirs, 1925-1950 by George Kennan
1967 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1967, according to GoodReads
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