Reconstructed List
This week was not officially published
The NYT published its Book Review supplement but omitted the bestseller list on this date — the week following the assassination of President Kennedy. This list was reconstructed from adjacent weeks by Hawes Publications.
Source: Hawes Publications ↗
by Mary McCarthy · Harcourt, Brace and World
Eight Vassar girls, determined not to be like Mother, decide to move with the times and put into action the ideas they have learned about in college.
by James Michener · Random House
To the mountain fastness of Afghanistan comes Mark Miller, an American diplomat attached to the Embassy in Kabul. He is investigating the disappearance of Ellen Jasper, an independent young woman in search of the freedom offered by the wildest and weirdest land on earth.
by Ian Fleming · New American Library
James Bond 007 is back! Bond is approached by a crime boss to marry his daughter and in return both father and daughter help 007 hunt for his archenemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
