1960s


The Help
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Bell Jar
Dune (Dune #1)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Clockwork Orange
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Outsiders
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Catch-22
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Cat’s Cradle
Lessons in Chemistry
In Cold Blood
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Best Fantasy of the 60s
80 books — 116 voters
War Horse by Michael MorpurgoIsabel by Carolyn MeyerThe Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow by Ann RinaldiNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Historical Fiction for Children
123 books — 26 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1,356 books — 1,777 voters

Antonella Gambotto-Burke
The culturally facilitated association of femininity with masochism was celebrated during the Psychedelic Revolution.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

I suppose,’ Andy said, ‘the only danger is if you get too used to it. If you get so used to it you can’t make do without the little services and luxuries––getting laid at lunchtime or being run through the bath and wanked off when you feel like sobering up. Or just being able to have a different girl every night of the week without having to be a full-time ass man to carry it through…
Frederick King Poole, Where Dragons Dwell

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