Sixties


The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Chronicles, Volume One
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Hippie
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
11/22/63
No One Here Gets Out Alive
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
The Haight-Ashbury: A History
Inherent Vice
The Help
Just Kids
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgThe Grey King by Susan CooperA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'EngleThe Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Best Kids’ Books From the 60s and 70s
272 books — 22 voters
Peyton Place by Grace MetaliousValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannWood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris   RoseFear of Flying by Erica JongThe Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Vintage Deliciousness
10 books — 8 voters

West Side Story by Irving ShulmanUp the Down Staircase by Bel KaufmanExplainers by Jules FeifferWriting the Record by Devon PowersGypsy Girl's Best Shoes by Anne Rockwell
New York City in the Sixties
21 books — 4 voters
Black Water Sister by Zen ChoI Walk Between the Raindrops by T.C. BoyleTullie's Receipts by Kitchen Guild  of the Tulli...It's not all Airy-Fairy Loads of Crap by Julie RasmussenDirty Hippies by Scott Paulsen
D'yer Mak'er: Dyed Covers
65 books — 3 voters


Tom Robbins
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Stewart Stafford
John Lennon once claimed that his band, The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lennon’s life paralleled Christ’s - both came from nothing, became figureheads of worldwide cults and changed the world. They also had premature, painful and undeserved deaths at the hands of others who envied and craved their abilities, influence and popularity. In the late Sixties, Lennon even seemed to adopt a Christ-like image with his long hair, beard and the various robes he started wearing, perhaps as a sly ...more
Stewart Stafford

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