1969 in literature

See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• ' - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
• The Campus Murders - Ellery Queen
• The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
• The Godfather - Mario Puzo
• The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
• The Inheritors - Harold Robbins
• Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore
• Little Painted Mouths - Manuel Puig
• The Love Machine - Jacqueline Susann
• Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser
• Naked Came the Stranger - Penelope Ashe
• Nothing Black But A Cadillac - Raymond Spence
• A Pocketful of Rye - A.J. Cronin
• Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
• Retour à Roissy - Pauline Réage
• Sounder - William H. Armstrong
• The Seven Minutes - Irving Wallace
• The Street - Mordecai Richler
• That Godless Woman - Merton H. Coleman
• The Veiled Sultan - March Cost
• War Against The Mafia - Don Pendleton