Hippies


Schooled
Arcadia
Drop City
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman
Hippie
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
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
The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution
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 KupferbergThe Jade Madelaine by David B. Churchill
Building for a Paisley Formica Grave
175 books — 5 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
95 books — 50 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)
220 books — 265 voters
Summer of '69 by Todd StrasserClover Blue by Eldonna EdwardsHome Free by Rifka KreiterThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Books for Aging Hippies
62 books — 41 voters

When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiRevolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang CompestineViolet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette HaworthMeet Julie by Megan McDonald
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1970s
142 books — 25 voters
Full Tilt by Dervla MurphyGoa Freaks by Cleo OdzerOdyssey by Ananda G. BradyThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxFlash by Charles Duchaussois
Hippie Trail to India
44 books — 8 voters

Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan has a sort of waxy sheen on it forever. My parents were hippies and didn’t do anything according to the status quo. I’m pretty sure my father still wakes up every morning, checks in on what the entire world is doing, and then does the opposite.
Laura Chinn, Acne

Hunter S. Thompson
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion—often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation—that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter. ...more
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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