We started at 1918, bringing you the bestselling books of the last one hundred years. We’re moving along now and we’re into the 1960s and almost half way through this series.
We’re covering each year at a time and we’re more than forty years in now with 1962 covered today!
1962 was the year we first heard of The Beatles, as they released Love Me Do, it’s the year Marilyn Monroe was found dead from an apparent overdose. In medicine the first oral polio vaccines were administered. The Cuban Missile Crisis took America to the brink of war, and the first Wal-Mart stores opened in the country.
Among all that, there were plenty of books published and read too, and today we’re featuring the bestselling novels of 1962, and some that didn’t make the list but have stood the test of time.
1962 also saw the release of Anthony Burgess’, A Clockwork Orange and Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
We’ll continue this series right through to 2018, keep an eye out for 1963, coming soon!
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