Hippies


Schooled
Arcadia
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Drop City
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman
Hippie
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Love, Janis
That Was Then, This Is Now
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution
Anthem by Deborah WilesHideous Kinky by Esther FreudHippie by Paulo CoelhoDrop City by T. Coraghessan BoyleMy Beautiful Hippie by Janet Nichols Lynch
Hippie Fiction
165 books — 17 voters
The Help by Kathryn Stockett11/22/63 by Stephen  KingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeWild World by Peter S. RushGo Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction)
194 books — 242 voters

When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiMeet Julie by Megan McDonaldRevolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang CompestineViolet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette Haworth
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1970s
140 books — 23 voters
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksBurn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaFor What It's Worth by Janet TashjianLove and Haight by Susan  CarltonDreams of Significant Girls by Cristina García
YA Fiction set in the 1970s
89 books — 47 voters


A person wanted to live a free life. She is depressed because she got stuck in marriage and children. Another person is living a free hippie life. She is depressed because her life seems like a kite without string. The only constant in her life are the tattoos on her body.
Shunya

Jim Goad
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

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