Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s, as determined by Publishers Weekly.[1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1960 through 1969.
The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
1960[]
- Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- Hawaii by James A. Michener
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace
- by John O'Hara
- by Marcia Davenport
- by Mary Ellen Chase
- by Taylor Caldwell
- Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
- by John O'Hara
1961[]
- The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Mila 18 by Leon Uris
- The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Winnie Ille Pu by Alexander Lenard (Latin translation of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne)
- Daughter of Silence by Morris West
- The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
1962[]
- Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
- Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury
- Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
- Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
- The Prize by Irving Wallace
- The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
- The Reivers by William Faulkner
1963[]
- The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
- Caravans by James A. Michener
- Elizabeth Appleton by John O'Hara
- by Taylor Caldwell
- City of Night by John Rechy
- The Glass-Blowers by Daphne du Maurier
- The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden
1964[]
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
- Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Armageddon by Leon Uris
- The Man by Irving Wallace
- by Louis Auchincloss
- The Martyred by Richard E. Kim
- You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
- This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
- by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
1965[]
- The Source by James A. Michener
- Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
- The Green Berets by Robin Moore
- Those Who Love by Irving Stone
- The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
- Hotel by Arthur Hailey
- The Ambassador by Morris West
- Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
1966[]
- Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
- by Harold Robbins
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
- Capable of Honor by Allen Drury
- by Helen MacInnes
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- by Adela Rogers St. Johns
- Tai-Pan by James Clavell
- by Louis Auchincloss
- by Edwin O'Connor
1967[]
- The Arrangement by Elia Kazan
- The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok (N.B. The source shows the Styron and Potok books tied for 2 and 3.)
- Topaz by Leon Uris
- Christy by Catherine Marshall
- The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
- Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
- The Plot by Irving Wallace
- by Mary Stewart
- by Henry Sutton
1968[]
- Airport by Arthur Hailey
- Couples by John Updike
- The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
- A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
- by Taylor Caldwell
- Preserve and Protect by Allen Drury
- Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
- by Fletcher Knebel
- Christy by Catherine Marshall
- The Tower of Babel by Morris L. West
1969[]
- Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann
- by Harold Robbins
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- by Irving Wallace
- Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe
- The Promise by Chaim Potok
- The Pretenders by Gwen Davis
- The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
References[]
- ^ Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895 - 1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. pp. 180–205. ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.
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