Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s

: "For other uses of the term, please see the disambiguation page at Best sellers".This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s, as determined by Publishers 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 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 di Lampedusa
# "The Chapman Report" by Irving Wallace
# "Ourselves to Know" by John O'Hara
# "The Constant Image" by Marcia Davenport
# "The Lovely Ambition" by Mary Ellen Chase
# "The Listener" by Taylor Caldwell
# "Trustee from the Toolroom" by Nevil Shute
# "Sermons and Soda-Water" 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 (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 L. West
# "The Group" by Mary McCarthy
# "" by J.D. Salinger
# "Caravans" by James A. Michener
# "Elizabeth Appleton" by John O'Hara
# "Grandmother and the Priests" 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 Fiority" 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
# "" by Leon Uris
# "The Man" by Irving Wallace
# "The Rector of Justin" by Louis Auchincloss
# "The Martyred" by Richard E. Kim
# "You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming
# "This Rough Magic" by Mary Stewart
# "Convention" 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
# "The Adventurers" by Harold Robbins
# "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" by Robert Crichton
# "Capable of Honor" by Allen Drury
# "The Double Image" by Helen MacInnes
# "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud
# "Tell No Man" by Adela Rogers St. Johns
# "Tai-Pan" by James Clavell
# "The Embezzler" by Louis Auchincloss
# "All in the Family" by Edwin O'Connor

1967

# "The Arrangement" by Elia Kazan
# "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron
# "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
# "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
# "The Gabriel Hounds" by Mary Stewart
# "The Exhibitionist" 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
# "Testimony of Two Men" by Taylor Caldwell
# "Preserve and Protect" by Allen Drury
# "Myra Breckinridge" by Gore Vidal
# "Vanished" 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
# "The Inheritors" by Harold Robbins
# "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton
# "The Seven Minutes" 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