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6. Marcia Davenport, The Constant Image

7. Mary Ellen Chase, The Lovely Ambition

8. Taylor Caldwell, The Listener

9. Nevil Shute, Trustee from the Toolroom

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Critically Acclaimed and Historically Significant

Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion

John Updike, Rabbit, Run

W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth

S. M. Lipset, Political Man

John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths

Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd

Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision

Angus Campbell et al., The American Voter

E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion

Hans Gadamer, Truth and Method

Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative

Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology

Bruno Bettelheim, The Informed Heart

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9. Jack Paar, I Kid You Not

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Fosco Maraini, Meeting with Japan

Alan Moorehead, No Room in the Ark

J. B. Priestley, Literature and Western Man

Nevil Shute, Trustee from the Toolroom

Laurie Lee, The Edge of Day

Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard

C. P. Snow, The Affair

Walter Lord, The Good Years

Elizabeth Nowell, Thomas Wolfe

Vinnie Williams, Walk Egypt

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval

S. N. Behrman, Portrait of Max

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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6. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

7. A. A. Milne, Winnie Ille Pu, trans. Alexander Lenard (Latin)

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9. Edwin O’Connor, The Edge of Sadness

10. John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization

Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science

Robert Dahl, Who Governs?

Erving Goffman, Asylums

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (U.S. publication)

Clement Greenberg, Art and Culture

Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Lewis Mumford, The City in History

1. The New English Bible: The New Testament

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4. Casserole Cook Book

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7. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

8. Dr. Herman Taller, Calories Don’t Count

9. Betty Crocker’s New Picture Cook Book: New Edition

10. Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water

Isak Dinesen, Shadows on the Grass

Ernest K. Gann, Fate is the Hunter

Rumer Godden, China Court

Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

Paul Horgan, Citizen of New Salem

C. P. Snow, Science and Government

George F. Kennan, Rus and the West under Lenin and Stalin

Edwin O’Connor, The Edge of Sadness

Theodore W. White, The Making of the President—1960

John Gunther, Inside Europe Today

George Waller, Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case

Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life

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6. Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe

7. Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, Seven Days in May

8. Irving Wallace, The Prize

9. Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

10. William Faulkner, The Reivers

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Michael Harrington, The Other America

Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind

T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics

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2. The New English Bible: The New Testament

3. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book: New Edition

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7. Louis Nizer, My Life in Court

8. Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds

9. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl

10. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

Al Dewlen, Twilight of Honor

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea

Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools

Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography

Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawke

Barbara Ward, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations

William Faulkner, The Reivers

Robert Ruark, Uhuru

John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

Jane Barry, A Time in the Sun

Alan Moorhead, The Blue Nile

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe

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5. John O’Hara, Elizabeth Appleton

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7. John Rechy, City of Night

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9. Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles

10. Rumer Godden, The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Mary McCarthy, The Group

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West

Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait

Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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7. The Pillsbury Family Cookbook

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9. Heloise’s Housekeeping Hints

10. Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book

Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles

Edmond Taylor, The Fall of the Dynasties

Peter Farb, Face of North America: The National History of a Continent

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Francis Bacon, Essays

James Morris, The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents

James A. Michener, Caravans

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Paul Gallico, Love, Let Me Not Hunger

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7. Richard E. Kim, The Martyred

8. Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

9. Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic

10. Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, Convention

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Saul Bellow, Herzog

Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man

Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University

Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait

Gary Becker, Human Capital

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7. Bill Adler, ed., The Kennedy Wit

8. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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10. Mark Shaw, The John F. Kennedys

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David Westheimer, Von Ryan’s Express

Gene Smith, When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson

Stanley Loomis, Paris in the Terror

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Giovanni Guareschi, Comrade Don Camillo

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Lenin

Louis Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin

James Gould Cozzens, Children and Others

C. P. Snow, Corridors of Power

Charles Chaplin, An Autobiography

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7. Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun

8. Arthur Hailey, Hotel

9. Morris West, The Ambassador

10. Herman Wouk, Don’t Stop the Carnival

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days

Harvey Cox, The Secular City

Lionel Trilling, Beyond Culture

Frank Herbert, Dune

Louis Althusser, For Marx

Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and Colonized

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family

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3. Eric Berne, Games People Play

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5. Johnny Carson, Happiness Is a Dry Martini

6. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

7. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days

8. Bill Sands, My Shadow Ran Fast

9. Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy

10. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1964

Stephen Becker, A Covenant with Death

John Steward Carter, Full Fathom Five

John Hersey, White Lotus

Herman Wouk, Don’t Stop the Carnival

Sally Carrighar, Wild Heritage

Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People

James A. Michener, The Source

Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

Jesse Hill Ford, The Liberation of Lord Byron

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

Will and Ariel Durant, The Age of Voltaire

Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy

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6. Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

7. Adela Rogers St. Johns, Tell No Man

8. James Clavell, Tai-Pan

9. Louis Auchincloss, The Embezzler

10. Edwin O’Connor, All in the Family

Peter Berger and Thomas Luckerman, The Social Construction of Reality

Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic

Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao

Jacques Lacan, Ecrits

Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

John Fowles, The Magus

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things

Oscar Lewis, La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation

Francies Yates, The Art of Memory

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

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4. Eric Berne, Games People Play

5. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days

6. Sam Levenson, Everything but Money

7. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language

8. Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment

9. Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle

10. Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Louis Auchincloss, The Embezzlers

Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle

A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran

Leonard Mosley, Hirohito: Emperor of Japan

Jon and Rumer Godden, Two Under the Indian Sun

Storm Jameson, The Early Life of Stephen Hind

Lionel Davidson, The Menorah Men

Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative

Rebecca West, The Birds Fall Down

Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo

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5. Catherine Marshall, Christy

6. Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

7. Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby

8. Irving Wallace, The Plot

9. Mary Stewart, The Gabriel Hounds

10. Henry Sutton, The Exhibitionist

Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State

Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology

Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference

William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Peter B. Medawar, The Art of the Soluble

1. William Manchester, Death of a President

2. Johnny Carson, Misery Is a Blind Date

3. Eric Berne, Games People Play

4. Rod McKuen, Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows

5. Father James Kavanaugh, A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church

6. Sam Levenson, Everything but Money

7. Stephen Birmingham, Our Crowd

8. Jess Stearn (tie), Edgar Cayce—The Sleeping Prophet

8. Better Homes and Gardens Favorite Ways with Chicken (tie)

8. Phyllis Diller (tie), Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual

Jan de Hartog, The Captain

Cornelia Otis Skinner, Madame Sarah

Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

John Gunther, Inside South America

Thornton Wilder, The Eight Day

William Manchester, The Death of a President

W. S. Kuniczak, The Thousand Hour Day

Harold Nicholson, The War Years, 1939–1945

Dennis Bloodworth, The Chinese Looking Glass

Gwyn Griffen, An Operational Necessity

Sarah Gainham, Night Falls on the City

Will and Ariel Durant, Rousseau and Revolution

William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Twenty Letters to a Friend

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6. Allen Drury, Preserve and Protect

7. Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

8. Fletcher Knebel, Vanished

9. Catherine Marshall, Christy

10. Morris L. West, The Tower of Babel

James D. Watson, The Double Helix

Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests

John Updike, Couples

Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
Richard Herr, Dispatches

Jean Piaget, Structuralism
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paul Ehlich, The Population Bomb
Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy

Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

1. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

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7. Adam Smith, The Money Game

8. Rod McKuen, Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows

9. Jean Nidetch, The Weight Watcher’s Cook Book

10. Better Homes and Gardens Eat and Stay Slim

Gerald Green, To Brooklyn with Love

Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

Sir Francis Chichester, Gipsy Moth Circles the World

Morris L. West, The Tower of Babel

James A. Michener, Ibera

Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Triumph

Bruce Page, David Lietch, and Philip Knightly, The Philby Conspiracy

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, Or I’ll Dress You in Mourning

Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle

Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Biological Time Bomb

James Gould Cozzens, Morning Noon and Night

Peter Farb, Man’s Rise to Civilization

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

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4. Harold Robbins, The Inheritors

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6. Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes

7. Penelope Ashe, Naked Came the Stranger

8. Chaim Potok, The Promise

9. Gwen Davis, The Pretenders

10. Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Dean Acheson, Present at Creation

Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins

Noam Chomsky, American Power and the New Mandarins

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying

Theodor Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Culture

1. William Morris, ed., American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

2. Rod McKuen, In Someone’s Shadow

3. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, The Peter Principle

4. Dr. Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Teenager

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6. Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968

7. Marjorie Craig, Miss Craig’s 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women

8. Jeane Dixon with René Noorbergen, My Life and Prophecies

9. Linda Goodman, Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs

10. Rod McKuen, Twelve Years of Christmas

C. P. Snow, The Sleep of Reason

Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days

Bruce Catton, Grant Takes Command

Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway

Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, and Bruce Page, An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968

Leonard Mosley, On Borrowed Time

Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

John Cheever, Bullet Park

C. L. Sulzberger, A Long Row of Candles

Pearl S. Buck, The Three Daughters of Madame Liang

J. C. Furnas, The Americans

Sanche de Gramont, The French: Portait of a People

Rumer Godden, In this House of Brede

Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Only One Year