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Best Sellers / Popular 1968

Description: This is my list of books that were either best sellers or popular and published in 1968.

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Rank Title Author Added

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15,268 members

423 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

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Ramona the Pest

by Beverly Cleary

7,781 members

112 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

3

by Catherine Marshall

3,686 members

45 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

4

A Kiss for Little Bear

by Else Holmelund Minarik

3,093 members

30 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

5

by Lloyd Alexander

6,049 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, GrammaPollyReads

6

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,418 members

209 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

7

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,429 members

476 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, GrammaPollyReads

8

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,058 members

377 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

9

by Anne McCaffrey

9,121 members

181 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

10

Tikki Tikki Tembo

by Arlene Mosel

4,959 members

152 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

11

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

4,270 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, GrammaPollyReads

12

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

1,995 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

13

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,739 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

14

6,037 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

15

The French Chef Cookbook

842 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, GrammaPollyReads

16

by Michael Crichton

3,265 members

46 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

17

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

by Agatha Christie

3,238 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

18

Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?

by Richard Scarry

1,922 members

17 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

19

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

by Thomas Merton

751 members

11 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, GrammaPollyReads

20

by John Wyndham

1,780 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

21

A Birthday for Frances

by Russell Hoban

1,505 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, GrammaPollyReads

22

The Laughing Policeman

by Maj Sjöwall

1,850 members

66 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

23

by Fletcher Knebel

123 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

24

The Bhagavad Gita

9,424 members

94 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

25

Asterix at the Olympic Games

by René Goscinny

1,813 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

26

Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories

732 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

27

Escape to Witch Mountain

by Alexander Key

575 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

28

by Arthur Hailey

1,442 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

29

They Never Came Home

324 members

3 reviews

3.1

2 Members: ahef1963, GrammaPollyReads

30

1,735 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

31

The Salzburg Connection

by Helen MacInnes

515 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

32

A Small Town in Germany

by John le Carré

2,053 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

33

Testimony of Two Men

by Taylor Caldwell

417 members

3 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

34

Preserve and Protect

182 members

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

35

Myra Breckinridge

974 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: GrammaPollyReads

36

The Tower of Babel

by Morris L. West

305 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: GrammaPollyReads

37

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,588 members

192 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

38

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

4,195 members

86 reviews

4.1

Member: GrammaPollyReads

39

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

6,364 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

40

Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut

7,188 members

65 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

41

The Greatest Salesman in the World

1,904 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

42

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Edward Abbey

3,952 members

89 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

43

by Charles Portis

4,332 members

213 reviews

4.1

Member: GrammaPollyReads

44

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

by Carlos Castaneda

3,887 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

45

In Watermelon Sugar

by Richard Brautigan

1,536 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

46

The Lessons of History

1,787 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

47

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

by James D. Watson

3,039 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

48

The Earthsea Trilogy

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,221 members

27 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

49

The Johnstown Flood

by David McCullough

2,283 members

73 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

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3,039 members

71 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: GrammaPollyReads

51

Stand on Zanzibar

by John Brunner

3,221 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

52

by Cormac McCarthy

2,100 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

53

Death Below Stairs

by Jennifer Ashley

272 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

54

by Eldridge Cleaver

1,703 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

55

Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

by Erich von Däniken

2,483 members

53 reviews

2.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

56

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

1,956 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: GrammaPollyReads

57

Coming of Age in Mississippi

1,637 members

30 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

58

The First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2,487 members

29 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

59

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

1,211 members

24 reviews

4.1

Member: GrammaPollyReads

60

Inside Outside Upside Down

by Stan Berenstain

1,934 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

61

by P. D. Eastman

1,626 members

25 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

62

There's a Nightmare in My Closet

by Mercer Mayer

2,347 members

67 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

63

by Kurt Vonnegut

660 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

64

Blow-up and Other Stories

by Julio Cortázar

1,394 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: GrammaPollyReads

65

2,368 members

63 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

66

by Samuel R. Delany

2,236 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

67

Lost in the Funhouse

1,561 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

68

by Yukio Mishima

241 members

10 reviews

3.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

69

Setting Free the Bears

1,908 members

17 reviews

3.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

70

The God Who Is There

by Francis A. Schaeffer

2,272 members

16 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

71

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Robert F. Kennedy

1,251 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

72

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

by Ayi Kwei Armah

491 members

1 review

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

73

1,353 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

74

History of Modern Art

by H. Harvard Arnason

1,055 members

2 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

75

Difference and Repetition

by Gilles Deleuze

929 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: GrammaPollyReads

76

813 members

13 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

77

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

by James Baldwin

807 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

78

The Cat Who Turned On and Off

by Lilian Jackson Braun

1,496 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

79

MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors

by Richard Hooker

1,415 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

80

Flight 714 to Sydney

1,698 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

81

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

by Esther Hautzig

2,031 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: GrammaPollyReads

82

A Kestrel for a Knave

1,055 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

83

1,852 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

84

Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever!

by Richard Scarry

1,450 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

85

The Spider Sapphire Mystery

by Carolyn Keene

1,239 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

86

by Frederick Exley

1,113 members

14 reviews

4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

87

Lisa, Bright and Dark

by John Neufeld

663 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

88

The Young Unicorns

by Madeleine L'Engle

1,507 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

89

The Armies of the Night

by Norman Mailer

1,243 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

90

The New Book of Middle Eastern Food

by Claudia Roden

633 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

91

Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

by Mary Higgins Clark

1,030 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

92

The Pool of Fire

by John Christopher

1,638 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: GrammaPollyReads

93

The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre

1,062 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

94

His Master's Voice

by Stanisław Lem

1,001 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

95

by Georgette Heyer

1,401 members

46 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: GrammaPollyReads

96

Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

311 members

1 review

4.2

Member: GrammaPollyReads

97

Asterix and the Cauldron

by René Goscinny

1,438 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

98

Language and Mind

by Noam Chomsky

512 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: GrammaPollyReads

99

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories

by William H. Gass

728 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: GrammaPollyReads

100

Rite of Passage

by Alexei Panshin

1,057 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GrammaPollyReads

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