List of The New York Times number-one books of 1966

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 1966.

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books.

Only three novels topped the list that year, which was dominated by Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls which spent 28 weeks at the top of the list and 65 weeks in the top 10. Valley was toppled by Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria, a World War II story based on fact, which sold more than 100,000 copies in the first month of its release.[1] It spent 18 weeks at the top of the list and nearly a year in the top 10. The other top seller of the year, James Michener's The Source, spent 36 weeks at the top of the list in 1965 and 1966.[2]

Date	Book	Author
January 3	The Source	James Michener
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8	Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann
May 15
May 22
May 29
June 5
June 12
June 19
June 26
July 3
July 10
July 17
July 24
July 31
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Robert Crichton
November 27
December 4
December 11
December 18
December 26

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books.

See also

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

References

1. Lambert, Bruce (March 24, 1993). "Robert Crichton, 68, Writer, Dies – His Best Sellers Became Hit Films". The New York Times. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
2. John Bear, The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992, pp. 95-97