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Books of the 1960s

The counterculture novel. Heller, Updike, Bellow, Pynchon. The Booker Prize was founded in 1969. This decade produced some of the most ambitious American fiction of the century. 90 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee · 1960 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul · 1961 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark · 1961 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Silent Spring Rachel Carson · 1962 Editor's Choice See details →
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing · 1962 Essential Read See details →
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee · 1962 Essential Read See details →
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin · 1963 Essential Read See details →
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre · 1963 Essential Read See details →
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl · 1964 Essential Read See details →
Stoner John Williams · 1965 Essential Read See details →
Dune Frank Herbert · 1965 Editor's Choice See details →
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X · 1965 Essential Read See details →
In Cold Blood Truman Capote · 1966 Editor's Choice See details →
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys · 1966 Essential Read See details →
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard · 1966 Essential Read See details →
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1967 Editor's Choice See details →
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o · 1967 Essential Read See details →
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 Essential Read See details →
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick · 1968 Essential Read See details →
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968 Essential Read See details →
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion · 1968 Editor's Choice See details →
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969 Essential Read See details →
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 Essential Read See details →
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou · 1969 Essential Read See details →
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth · 1969 Essential Read See details →
Night Shift Stephen King · 1960 Recommended See details →
Ring of bright water Gavin Maxwell · 1960 Recommended See details →
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science Isaac Asimov · 1960 Recommended See details →
A Burnt-Out Case Graham Greene · 1960 Recommended See details →
Black like me John Howard Griffin · 1960 Recommended See details →
The spy who loved me Ian Fleming · 1960 Recommended See details →
Psycho-cybernetics Maxwell Maltz · 1960 Recommended See details →
Portrait of a Killer Patricia Cornwell · 1960 Recommended See details →
A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond · 1960 Recommended See details →
Mastering the Art of French Cooking Julia Child · 1961 Recommended See details →
A Grief Observed C. S. Lewis · 1961 Recommended See details →
Eat not this flesh Frederick J. Simoons · 1961 Recommended See details →
Astérix le Gaulois René Goscinny · 1961 Recommended See details →
Catch-22 Joseph Heller · 1961 Recommended See details →
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein · 1961 Recommended See details →
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls · 1961 Recommended See details →
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick · 1962 Recommended See details →
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess · 1962 Recommended See details →
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson · 1962 Recommended See details →
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 Recommended See details →
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman · 1962 Recommended See details →
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn · 1962 Recommended See details →
Historias de cronopios y de famas Julio Cortázar · 1962 Recommended See details →
The Age of Revolution Eric Hobsbawm · 1962 Recommended See details →
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré · 1962 Recommended See details →
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey · 1962 Recommended See details →
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut · 1963 Recommended See details →
Gorin no sho Miyamoto Musashi · 1963 Recommended See details →
De Proust a Camus André Maurois · 1963 Recommended See details →
Jim Dine Jim Dine · 1963 Recommended See details →
Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle · 1963 Recommended See details →
Never Cry Wolf Farley Mowat · 1963 Recommended See details →
The Human Body Isaac Asimov · 1963 Recommended See details →
The Human Brain Isaac Asimov · 1963 Recommended See details →
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind Joseph Murphy · 1963 Recommended See details →
One-Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse · 1963 Recommended See details →
You are not the target Laura Archera Huxley · 1963 Recommended See details →
Thrilling Cities Ian Fleming · 1963 Recommended See details →
Bread and jam for Frances Russell Hoban · 1964 Recommended See details →
The Marsh Arabs Wilfred Thesiger · 1964 Recommended See details →
Ariel Sylvia Plath · 1965 Recommended See details →
The Passover Plot Hugh Joseph Schonfield · 1965 Recommended See details →
Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney · 1966 Recommended See details →
Astérix chez les Bretons René Goscinny · 1966 Recommended See details →
Konrad Klapheck Konrad Klapheck · 1966 Recommended See details →
Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville · 1966 Recommended See details →
The Universe Isaac Asimov · 1966 Recommended See details →
AMC White Mountain guide Appalachian Mountain Club · 1966 Recommended See details →
Satori in Paris Jack Kerouac · 1966 Recommended See details →
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes · 1966 Recommended See details →
The Magic Finger Roald Dahl · 1966 Recommended See details →
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton · 1967 Recommended See details →
Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker · 1967 Recommended See details →
Ice Anna Kavan · 1967 Recommended See details →
Logan's run William F. Nolan · 1967 Recommended See details →
Outlaw of Gor John Norman · 1967 Recommended See details →
The White Mountains (The Tripods #1) Sam Youd · 1967 Recommended See details →
2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke · 1968 Recommended See details →
Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques René Goscinny · 1968 Recommended See details →
Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey · 1968 Recommended See details →
The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle · 1968 Recommended See details →
Astérix en Hispanie René Goscinny · 1969 Recommended See details →
Hallowe'en Party Agatha Christie · 1969 Recommended See details →
Kitsch Gillo Dorfles · 1969 Recommended See details →
The Law of Success Napoleon Hill · 1969 Recommended See details →

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