How do the bestsellers of March 1966 match up to the bestselling fiction and nonfiction books today? We compared the New York Times bestseller lists to see what people read then and what they read now, and we declared a winner. No surprise that 1966 was far more impressive when it came to fiction (Graham Greene, John O’Hara) and nonfiction (Truman Capote, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.) than what people read today (Clive Cussler, James Patterson). Welcome back to the 1960s.
