The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1964

This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1964. Only four books topped the list that year, the list being dominated for 34 weeks by John le Carré's spy novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The prolific novelist Louis Auchincloss had his only No. 1 bestseller that year (and only for one week at the top, though it lasted 33 weeks in the top 5).^[1]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold spent two thirds of the year at the top of the NYT fiction bestseller list in 1964

Date	Book	Author
January 5	The Group	Mary McCarthy
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2
February 9
February 16
February 23	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré
March 1
March 8
March 15
March 22
March 29
April 5
April 12
April 19
April 26
May 3
May 10
May 17
May 24
May 31
June 7
June 14
June 21
June 28
July 5
July 12
July 19
July 26
August 2
August 9
August 16
August 23
August 30
September 6
September 13
September 20
September 27
October 4	The Rector of Justin	Louis Auchincloss
October 11	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré
October 18
October 25	Herzog	Saul Bellow
November 1
November 8
November 15
November 22
November 29
December 6
December 13
December 20
December 27

References

1. 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. 89-93