Bestselling Books

1968 Books & Bestsellers 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 […]

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

1966 Books & Bestsellers 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

1965 Books & Bestsellers 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

1964 Books & Bestsellers 1964 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré 2. Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg 3. Herzog by Saul Bellow 4. Armageddon by Leon Uris 5. The Man by Irving Wallace 6. The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss 7. The Martyred by Richard E. Kim 8. You Only Live Twice by Ian

1963 Books & Bestsellers 1963 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West 2. The Group by Mary McCarthy 3. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J.D. Salinger 4. Caravans by James A. Michener 5. Elizabeth Appleton by John O’Hara 6. Grandmother and the Priests by Taylor Caldwell 7. City of Night by John Rechy 8. The

1962 Books & Bestsellers 1962 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter 2. Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 3. A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury 4. Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk 5. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 6. Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler 7. Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II

1961 Books & Bestsellers 1961 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone 2. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Mila 18 by Leon Uris 5. The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins 6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 7. Winnie Ille Pu by A.A. Milne translated by Alexander Lenard (Latin) 8. Daughter of

1960 Books & Bestsellers 1960 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 2. Hawaii by James A. Michener 3. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa 4. The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace 5. Ourselves To Know by John O’Hara 6. The Constant Image by Marcia Davenport 7. The Lovely Ambition by Mary Ellen Chase 8. The Listener by Taylor Caldwell 9. Trustee from the Toolroom by

1959 Books & Bestsellers 1959 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Exodus by Leon Uris 2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 3. Hawaii by James Michener 4. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence 6. The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick 7. Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell 8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to