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 1963 covered today!
1963 and it was all about the Civil Rights Movement in the US as Martin Luther King gave his ‘I have a dream’ speech, while the Klu Klux Klan blew up a baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, and President Kennedy was assassinated. In lighter news, zip codes were introduced for the first time. Around the world Beatlemania took hold, and the USSR put the first woman in space.
Among all that, there were plenty of books published and read too, and today we’re featuring the bestselling novels of 1963, and some that didn’t make the list but have stood the test of time.
1963 also saw the release of Sylvia Plath’s, The Bell Jar and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
We’ll continue this series right through to 2018, keep an eye out for 1964, coming soon!
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