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
Young Donald by Michael       BennettThis I Know by Eldonna EdwardsThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Fiction Set in 1960s
78 books — 118 voters
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Grey King by Susan CooperThat Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. HintonA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Kids’ Books From the 60s and 70s
272 books — 23 voters

The 'Great' Kickin'dog by Kenneth Allen Crutchfield, Sr.Love & Haight by Tracey Madeley
Books set in the 1960's
2 books — 2 voters
The Plague by Albert CamusTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerRabbit, Run by John UpdikeBorn Free by Joy Adamson
The Sixties Chronicle
37 books — 1 voter

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

Julian Barnes
If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing. ...more
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

In five minutes the streets became deserted and only a few disarrayed teenagers could be seen hanging around in front of a big newsstand where coffee and pastries were served, and discussed about all these topics which now are so much affecting our youth, in every way possible.
Jeff X, Memoirs of Jeff X

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