Rankings from Bowker's Annual/Publisher's Weekly
| 1960: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Advise and Consent | Drury, Allen | |
 | 2 | Hawaii | Michener, James A. |
| 3 | The Leopard | di Lampedusa, Giuseppe | |
| 4 | The Chapman Report | Wallace, Irving | |
| 5 | Ourselves To Know | O'Hara, John | |
| 6 | The Constant Image | Davenport, Marcia | |
| 7 | The Lovely Ambition | Chase, Mary Ellen | |
| 8 | The Listener | Caldwell, Taylor | |
| 9 | Trustee from the Toolroom | Shute, Nevil | |
| 10 | Sermons and Soda-Water | O'Hara, John | |
| 1960: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Folk Medicine | Jarvis, D. C. | |
| 2 | Better Homes and Gardens First Aid for Your Family | None | |
| 3 | The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook | None | |
| 4 | May This House Be Safe from Tigers | King, Alexander | |
| 5 | Better Homes and Gardens Dessert Book | None | |
| 6 | Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Ideas | None | |
| 7 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Shirer, William L. | |
| 8 | The Conscience of a Conservative | Goldwater, Barry | |
| 9 | I Kid You Not | Paar, Jack | |
| 10 | Between You, Me and the Gatepost | Boone, Pat | |
| 1961: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Stone, Irving |
| 2 | Franny and Zooey | Salinger, J. D. |
| 3 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper |
| 4 | Mila 18 | Uris, Leon |
| 5 | The Carpetbaggers | Robbins, Harold | |
| 6 | Tropic of Cancer | Miller, Henry |
| 7 | Winnie Ille Pu | Lenard, Alexander, trans. | |
| 8 | Daughter of Silence | West, Morris | |
| 9 | The Edge of Sadness | O'Connor, Edwin |
| 10 | The Winter of Our Discontent | Steinbeck, John |
| 1961: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | The New English Bible: The New Testament | None | |
| 2 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Shirer, William | |
| 3 | Better Homes and Gardens Sewing Book | None | |
| 4 | Casserole Cook Book | None | |
| 5 | A Nation of Sheep | Lederer, William | |
| 6 | Better Homes and Gardens Nutrition for Your Family | None | |
| 7 | The Making of the President, 1960 | White, Theodore H. | |
| 8 | Calories Don't Count | Taller, Dr. Herman | |
| 9 | Betty Crocker's New Picture Cook Book: New Edition | None | |
| 10 | Ring of Bright Water | Maxwell, Gavin | |
| 1962: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Ship of Fools | Porter, Katherine Anne |
| 2 | Dearly Beloved | Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | |
| 3 | A Shade of Difference | Drury, Allen | |
| 4 | Youngblood Hawke | Wouk, Herman |
| 5 | Franny and Zooey | Salinger, J. D. |
| 6 | Fail-Safe | Burdick, Eugene and Harvey Wheeler | |
| 7 | Seven Days in May | Knebel, Fletcher and Charles W. Bailey II | |
| 8 | The Prize | Wallace, Irving | |
| 9 | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Stone, Irving |
| 10 | The Reivers | Faulkner, William |
| 1962: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Calories Don't Count | Taller, Dr. Herman | |
| 2 | The New English Bible: The New Testament | None | |
| 3 | Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book: New Edition | None | |
| 4 | O Ye Jigs & Juleps! | Hudson, Virginia Cary | |
| 5 | Happiness Is a Warm Puppy | Schulz, Charles M. | |
| 6 | The Joy of Cooking: New Edition | Rombauer, Irma S. and Marion Rombauer Becker | |
| 7 | My Life in Court | Nizer, Louis | |
| 8 | The Rothschilds | Morton, Frederic | |
| 9 | Sex and the Single Girl | Brown, Helen Gurley | |
| 10 | Travels with Charley | Steinbeck , John | |
| 1963: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | West, Morris L. | |
| 2 | The Group | McCarthy, Mary | |
| 3 | Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour--An Introduction | Salinger, J. D. |
| 4 | Caravans | Michener, James A. | |
| 5 | Elizabeth Appleton | O'Hara, John | |
| 6 | Grandmother and the Priests | Caldwell, Taylor |
| 7 | City of Night | Rechy, John | |
| 8 | The Glass-Blowers | du Maurier, Daphne |
| 9 | The Sand Pebbles | McKenna, Richard | |
| 1963: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Happiness Is a Warm Puppy | Schulz, Charles M. | |
| 2 | Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket | Schulz, Charles M. | |
| 3 | J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth | Lasky, Victor | |
| 4 | Profiles in Courage: Inaugural Edition | Kennedy, John F. | |
| 5 | O Ye Jigs & Juleps! | Hudson, Virginia Cary | |
| 6 | Better Homes and Gardens Bread Cook Book | None | |
| 7 | The Pillsbury Family Cookbook | None | |
| 8 | I Owe Russia $1200 | Hope, Bob | |
| 9 | Heloise's Housekeeping Hints | None | |
| 10 | The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | Godden, Rumer | |
| 10 | Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book | None | |
| 1964: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Le Carre, John |
| 2 | Candy | Southern, Terry and Mason Hoffenberg |
| 3 | Herzog | Bellow, Saul |
| 4 | Armageddon | Uris, Leon | |
| 5 | The Man | Wallace, Irving | |
| 6 | The Rector of Justin | Auchincloss, Louis | |
| 7 | The Martyred | Kim, Richard E. | |
| 8 | You Only Live Twice | Fleming, Ian |
| 9 | This Rough Magic | Stewart, Mary |
| 10 | Convention | Knebel, Fletcher and Charles W. Bailey II | |
| 1964: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Four Days | American Heritage and United Press International | |
| 2 | I Need All the Friends I Can Get | Schulz, Charles M. | |
| 3 | Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition | Kennedy, John F. | |
| 4 | In His Own Write | Lennon, John | |
| 5 | Christmas Is Together-Time | Schulz, Charles M. | |
| 6 | A Day in the Life of President Kennedy | Bishop, Jim | |
| 7 | The Kennedy Wit | Adler, Bill | |
| 8 | A Moveable Feast | Hemingway, Ernest |
| 9 | Reminiscences | MacArthur, General Douglas | |
| 10 | The John F. Kennedys | Shaw, Mark | |
| 1965: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Source | Michener, James A. | |
| 2 | Up the Down Staircase | Kaufman, Bel |
| 3 | Herzog | Bellow, Saul |
| 4 | The Looking Glass War | Le Carre, John |
| 5 | The Green Berets | Moore, Robin | |
| 6 | Those Who Love | Stone, Irving |
| 7 | The Man with the Golden Gun | Fleming, Ian |
| 8 | Hotel | Hailey, Arthur | |
| 9 | The Ambassador | West, Morris | |
| 10 | Don't Stop the Carnival | Wouk, Herman | |
| 1965: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | How To Be a Jewish Mother | Greenburg, Dan | |
| 2 | A Gift of Prophecy | Montgomery, Ruth | |
| 3 | Games People Play | Berne, Eric, M.D. | |
| 4 | World Aflame | Graham, Billy | |
| 5 | Happiness Is a Dry Martini | Carson, Johnny | |
| 6 | Markings | Hammarskjold, Dag | |
| 7 | A Thousand Days | Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. | |
| 8 | My Shadow Ran Fast | Sands, Bill | |
| 9 | Kennedy | Sorensen, Theodore C. | |
| 10 | The Making of the President, 1964 | White, Theodore H. | |
| 1966: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Valley of the Dolls | Susann, Jacqueline |
| 2 | The Adventurers | Robbins, Harold | |
| 3 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Crichton, Robert |
| 4 | Capable of Honor | Drury, Allen | |
| 5 | The Double Image | MacInnes, Helen | |
| 6 | The Fixer | Malamud, Bernard | |
| 7 | Tell No Man | St. Johns, Adela Rogers | |
| 8 | Tai-Pan | Clavell, James |
| 9 | The Embezzler | Auchincloss, Louis | |
| 10 | All in the Family | O'Connor, Edwin | |
| 1966: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | How to Avoid Probate | Dacey, Norman F. | |
| 2 | Human Sexual Response | Masters, William Howard and Virginia E. Johnston | |
| 3 | In Cold Blood | Capote, Truman | |
| 4 | Games People Play | Berne, Eric, M.D. | |
| 5 | A Thousand Days | Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. | |
| 6 | Everything but Money | Levenson, Sam | |
| 7 | The Random House Dictionary of the English Language | None | |
| 8 | Rush to Judgment | Lane, Mark | |
| 9 | The Last Battle | Ryan, Cornelius | |
| 10 | Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints | Diller, Phyllis | |
| 1967: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Arrangement | Kazan, Elia |
| 2 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | Styron, William (tie) |
| 2 | The Chosen | Potok, Chaim (tie) |
| 4 | Topaz | Uris, Leon | |
| 5 | Christy | Marshall, Catherine |
| 6 | The Eighth Day | Wilder, Thornton |
| 7 | Rosemary's Baby | Levin, Ira |
| 8 | The Plot | Wallace, Irving | |
| 9 | The Gabriel Hounds | Stewart, Mary | |
| 10 | The Exhibitionist | Sutton, Henry | |
| 1967: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Death of a President | Manchester, William | |
| 2 | Misery Is a Blind Date | Carson, Johnny | |
| 3 | Games People Play | Berne, Eric, M.D. | |
| 4 | Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows | McKuen, Rod | |
| 5 | A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church | Kavanaugh, Father James | |
| 6 | Everything but Money | Levenson, Sam | |
| 7 | Our Crowd | Birmingham, Stephen | |
| 8 | Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual | Diller, Phyllis (tie) | |
| 8 | Edgar Cayce--The Sleeping Prophet | Stearn, Jess (tie) | |
| 8 | Better Homes and Gardens Favorite Ways with Chicken | (tie) | |
| 1968: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Airport | Hailey, Arthur |
| 2 | Couples | Updike, John |
| 3 | The Salzburg Connection | MacInnes, Helen | |
| 4 | A Small Town in Germany | Le Carre, John | |
| 5 | Testimony of Two Men | Caldwell, Taylor | |
| 6 | Preserve and Protect | Drury, Allen | |
| 7 | Myra Breckinridge | Vidal, Gore |
| 8 | Vanished | Knebel, Fletcher | |
| 9 | Christy | Marshall, Catherine |
| 10 | The Tower of Babel | West, Morris L. | |
| 1968: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book | None | |
| 2 | The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: College Edition | Urdang, Laurence, editor | |
| 3 | Listen to the Warm | McKuen, Rod | |
| 4 | Between Parent and Child | Ginott, Haim G. | |
| 5 | Lonesome Cities | McKuen, Rod | |
| 6 | The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet | Stillman, Erwin M. and Samm Sinclair Baker | |
| 7 | The Money Game | Smith, Adam | |
| 8 | Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows | McKuen, Rod | |
| 9 | The Weight Watcher's Cook Book | Nidetch, Jean | |
| 10 | Better Homes and Gardens Eat and Stay Slim | None | |
| 1969: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Portnoy's Complaint | Roth, Philip |
| 2 | The Godfather | Puzo, Mario |
| 3 | The Love Machine | Susann, Jacqueline | |
| 4 | The Inheritors | Robbins, Harold | |
| 5 | The Andromeda Strain | Crichton, Michael |
| 6 | The Seven Minutes | Wallace, Irving | |
| 7 | Naked Came the Stranger | Ashe, Penelope |
| 8 | The Promise | Potok, Chaim |
| 9 | The Pretenders | Davis, Gwen | |
| 10 | The House on the Strand | du Maurier, Daphne | |
| 1969: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | Morris, William, editor | |
| 2 | In Someone's Shadow | McKuen, Rod | |
| 3 | The Peter Principle | Peter, Laurence J. and Raymond Hull | |
| 4 | Between Parent and Teenager | Ginott, Dr. Haim G. | |
| 5 | The Graham Kerr Cookbook, the Galloping Gourmet | None | |
| 6 | The Selling of the President 1968 | McGinniss, Joe | |
| 7 | Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women | Craig, Marjorie | |
| 8 | My Life and Prophecies | Dixon, Jeane with Rene Noorbergen | |
| 9 | Linda Goodman's Sun Signs | Goodman, Linda | |
| 10 | Twelve Years of Christmas | McKuen, Rod | |
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