- Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s
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Best sellers ".This is a list of bestselling novels in theUnited States in the1960s , as determined byPublishers Weekly . 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, lead to the exclusion of the
novel s in theHarry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s - are currently unknown.1960
# "
Advise and Consent " byAllen Drury
# "Hawaii" byJames A. Michener
# "The Leopard " by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
# "The Chapman Report " byIrving Wallace
# "Ourselves to Know " byJohn O'Hara
# "The Constant Image " byMarcia Davenport
# "The Lovely Ambition " byMary Ellen Chase
# "The Listener" byTaylor Caldwell
# "Trustee from the Toolroom " byNevil Shute
# "Sermons and Soda-Water " byJohn O'Hara 1961
# "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by
Irving Stone
# "Franny and Zooey " byJ.D. Salinger
# "To Kill a Mockingbird " byHarper Lee
# "Mila 18 " byLeon Uris
# "The Carpetbaggers " byHarold Robbins
# "Tropic of Cancer" byHenry Miller
# "Winnie Ille Pu " byAlexander Lenard (translation ofWinnie the Pooh byA. A. Milne )
# "Daughter of Silence " byMorris West
# "The Edge of Sadness " byEdwin O'Connor
# "The Winter of Our Discontent " byJohn Steinbeck 1962
# "Ship of Fools" by
Katherine Anne Porter
# "Dearly Beloved" byAnne Morrow Lindbergh
# "A Shade of Difference " byAllen Drury
# "Youngblood Hawke " byHerman Wouk
# "Franny and Zooey " byJ.D. Salinger
# "Fail-Safe " byEugene Burdick andHarvey Wheeler
# "Seven Days in May " byFletcher Knebel andCharles W. Bailey II
# "The Prize" byIrving Wallace
# "The Agony and the Ecstasy" byIrving Stone
# "The Reivers " byWilliam Faulkner 1963
# "
The Shoes of the Fisherman " byMorris L. West
# "The Group" by Mary McCarthy
# "" byJ.D. Salinger
# "Caravans" byJames A. Michener
# "Elizabeth Appleton " byJohn O'Hara
# "Grandmother and the Priests " byTaylor Caldwell
# "City of Night " byJohn Rechy
# "The Glass-Blowers " byDaphne du Maurier
# "The Sand Pebbles " byRichard McKenna
# "The Battle of the Villa Fiority " byRumer Godden 1964
# "
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold " byJohn le Carré
# "Candy" byTerry Southern andMason Hoffenberg
# "Herzog" bySaul Bellow
# "" byLeon Uris
# "The Man" byIrving Wallace
# "The Rector of Justin " byLouis Auchincloss
# "The Martyred " byRichard E. Kim
# "You Only Live Twice" byIan Fleming
# "This Rough Magic " byMary Stewart
# "Convention" byFletcher Knebel andCharles W. Bailey II 1965
# "The Source" by
James A. Michener
# "Up the Down Staircase " byBel Kaufman
# "Herzog" bySaul Bellow
# "The Looking Glass War" byJohn le Carré
# "The Green Berets" byRobin Moore
# "Those Who Love " byIrving Stone
# "The Man with the Golden Gun" byIan Fleming
# "Hotel" byArthur Hailey
# "The Ambassador " byMorris West
# "Don't Stop the Carnival " byHerman Wouk 1966
# "
Valley of the Dolls " byJacqueline Susann
# "The Adventurers " byHarold Robbins
# "The Secret of Santa Vittoria " byRobert Crichton
# "Capable of Honor " byAllen Drury
# "The Double Image " byHelen MacInnes
# "The Fixer" byBernard Malamud
# "Tell No Man " byAdela Rogers St. Johns
# "Tai-Pan" byJames Clavell
# "The Embezzler " byLouis Auchincloss
# "All in the Family" byEdwin O'Connor 1967
# "The Arrangement" by
Elia Kazan
# "The Confessions of Nat Turner" byWilliam Styron
# "The Chosen" byChaim Potok
# "Topaz" byLeon Uris
# "Christy" byCatherine Marshall
# "The Eighth Day" byThornton Wilder
# "Rosemary's Baby " byIra Levin
# "The Plot" byIrving Wallace
# "The Gabriel Hounds " byMary Stewart
# "The Exhibitionist" byHenry Sutton 1968
# "Airport" by
Arthur Hailey
# "Couples" byJohn Updike
# "The Salzburg Connection " by Helen MacInnes
# "A Small Town in Germany " byJohn le Carré
# "Testimony of Two Men " byTaylor Caldwell
# "Preserve and Protect " byAllen Drury
# "Myra Breckinridge " byGore Vidal
# "Vanished" byFletcher Knebel
# "Christy" byCatherine Marshall
# "The Tower of Babel" byMorris L. West 1969
# "
Portnoy's Complaint " byPhilip Roth
# "The Godfather" byMario Puzo
# "The Love Machine" byJacqueline Susann
# "The Inheritors" byHarold Robbins
# "The Andromeda Strain " byMichael Crichton
# "The Seven Minutes" byIrving Wallace
# "Naked Came the Stranger " byPenelope Ashe
# "The Promise" byChaim Potok
# "The Pretenders" byGwen Davis
# "The House on the Strand " byDaphne du Maurier
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