60s


To Kill a Mockingbird
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Bell Jar
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Outsiders
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
A Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse-Five
Just Kids
Cat’s Cradle
Dune (Dune, #1)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
In Cold Blood
The Left Hand of Darkness
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cardcaptor Sakura, Vol. 1 by ClampSailor Moon, Vol. 1 by Naoko TakeuchiInuYasha, Vol. 1 by Rumiko TakahashiRurouni Kenshin, Vol. 1 by Nobuhiro WatsukiFruits Basket, Vol. 1 by Natsuki Takaya
Manga Released Before 2000
128 books — 38 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

Scary Modsters…and Creepy Freaks by Diane RinellaLS65 by Billy   MorrisAbsolute Beginners by Colin MacInnesThe Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark HodderTo Be Someone by Peter Meadows
Mods in Fiction
8 books — 9 voters
Freakout on Sunset Strip by Donald F. GlutHere Come the Hippies by William Charles Spatari101 Hippie Jokes by Paul Laikin1001 Ways to Beat the Draft by Tuli KupferbergMy Share of Pot by Clarence B. Campbell
Building for a Paisley Formica Grave
175 books — 5 voters


David Graeber
The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the 60s).
David Graeber

Lester Bangs
Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one. ...more
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