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1960s

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An Enemy at Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

The Ghost of Dibble Hollow by May Nickerson Wallace

The Ghost of Windy Hill by Clyde Robert Bulla

Children's Ghost Stories of the 1960s

20 books — 16 voters

The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher

Children's Science Fiction of the 1960s

130 books — 29 voters

Once Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount

Fave Autobiographical Books

66 books — 37 voters

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Born in the 1960s - What we've read in 2014

894 books — 50 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Born in the 1960s - What We've Read in 2015

1,082 books — 97 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by John Donovan

The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden

20th Century YA with LGBT Themes

177 books — 50 voters

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“ It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Pers It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again. This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece Watership Down is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since The Wind in the Willows, but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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