Big Books of Summer
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1960s


1960s Books

The Help
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Bell Jar
Dune (Dune, #1)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Clockwork Orange
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Outsiders
Catch-22
Cat’s Cradle
In Cold Blood
Lessons in Chemistry
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Lists

22 daydreams by Chris RoseWood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris RoseThe Porn Detective by Stevie TurnerGrit by Karl WigginsOnce Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount
Fave Autobiographical Books
66 books — 37 voters
Anthem by Deborah WilesHideous Kinky by Esther FreudHippie by Paulo CoelhoDrop City by T. Coraghessan BoyleMy Beautiful Hippie by Janet Nichols Lynch
Hippie Fiction
166 books — 18 voters

Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannThe Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan WilsonThe Group by Mary McCarthyThe Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
If You Like Mad Men . . .
63 books — 90 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCharlotte's Web by E.B. WhiteThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
New York Times Bestsellers
231 books — 83 voters

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Best Fantasy of the 60s
76 books — 116 voters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaLakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)
245 books — 87 voters

Quotes Tagged “1960s”

Rick Perlstein
“ But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie. ”
― Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“ The culturally facilitated association of femininity with masochism was celebrated during the Psychedelic Revolution. ”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
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Videos Tagged “1960s”

Pick-up Sticks
Pick-up Sticks
Born Into This - Charles Bukowski Documentary
Born Into This - Charles Bukowski Documentary
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Groups Tagged "1960s"

Q&A with Richard Sharp This Q&A concerns the novels of Richard Sharp…more
9 members, last active 12 years ago
Mad Reads This book club is inspired by the course entitled "Mad Men: Gender & Historiography" which is of…more
8 members, last active 11 years ago
This is set in '63, so Beatniks aren't as popular, some of the '50s is still lingering, and Rock…more
2 members, last active 13 years ago
...April 11, 2014 to May 11, 2014...
8 members, last active 12 years ago