Valley of the Dolls (1966) by Jacqueline Susann

 1,001 Novels: A Library of America

Valley of the Dolls (1966)

by Jacqueline Susann

New York: 28/105

Manhattan: 2/34

    Not sure when, exactly, I read Valley of the Dolls, but it was after I saw the film, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, so we are going back twenty years.  Maybe in law school or maybe just after.  Valley of the Dolls isn't a particularly good book, but it is succesful- it was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best selling book of all time when Susann died back in the 70's and Wikipedia says it's sold over 31 million copies to date.

   The "Dolls" of the title refers to pills, and this book is generally considered to be the first book to launch the pill popping "diet" of uppers and downers into the popular consciousness.