Reading in the 1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke
The Agony and the Ecstasy. Irving Stone
Airport. Arthur Hailey
The Andromeda Strain. Michael Crichton
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Malcolm X
The Carpetbaggers. Harold Robbins
Catch-22. Joseph Heller
The Chapman Report. Irving Wallace
The Chosen. Chaim Potok
A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner. William Styron
Couples. John Updike
Death of a President. William Manchester
The Double Helix. James D. Watson
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Tom Wolfe
The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan
The Fixer. Bernard Malamud
Franny and Zooey. J.D. Salinger
The French Lieutenant’s Woman. John Fowles
From the Mix-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. E.L. Konigsburg,
Games People Play. Eric Berne
A Garden of Earthly Delights. Joyce Carol Oates
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Giorgio Bassani
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Kurt Vonnegut
The Godfather. Mario Puzo
The Group. Mary McCarthy
Guns of August. Barbara Tuchman
Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Charles Schulz
Hotel. Arthur Hailey
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Joanne Greenberg
In Cold Blood. Truman Capote
Island of the Blue Dolphins. Scott O’Dell
The Last Picture Show. Larry McMurty
The Learning Tree. Gordon Parks
The Looking Glass War. John Le Carre
The Love Machine. Jacqueline Susann
The Man with the Golden Gun. Ian Fleming
The Making of the President, 1960. Theodore H. White
A Moveable Feast. Ernest Hemingway
My Side of the Mountain. Jean CraigheadGeorge
Myra Breckinridge. Gore Vidal
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ken Kesey
The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton
Patriotic Gore. Edmund Wilson
Planet of the Apes. Pierre Boulle
Portnoy’s Complaint. Philip Roth
Rabbit, Run. John Updike
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. William L. Shirer
Rosemary’s Baby. Ira Levin
A Separate Peace. John Knowles
Sex and the Single Girl. Helen Gurley Brown
Ship of Fools. Katherine Anne Porter
Silent Spring. Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children’s Crusade. Kurt Vonnegut
The Snowy Day. Ezra Jack Keats
Soul on Ice. Eldridge Cleaver
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. John Le Carre
A Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert Heinlein
Tai-Pan. James Clavell
A Thousand Days. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee
Travels with Charley in Search of America. John Steinbeck
Travels With My Aunt. Graham Greene
Tropic of Cancer. Henry Miller
V. Thomas Pynchon
Valley of the Dolls. Jacqueline Susann
Where the Wild Things Are. MauriceSendak
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
A Wrinkle in Time. MadelineL’Engle