1962


A Clockwork Orange
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Man in the High Castle
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pale Fire
Silent Spring
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Another Country
The Golden Notebook
The Guns of August
Island
Summer of '69 by Todd StrasserThe Wednesday Wars by Gary D. SchmidtGloss by Marilyn KayeThree Day Summer by Sarvenaz TashThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
YA Fiction set in the 1960s
108 books — 58 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Books 1962
143 books — 92 voters
Sister of the Bride by Beverly ClearyLight a Single Candle by Beverly ButlerStars in Her Eyes by Betty CavannaThe Stars Hang High by Janet LambertWedding Bells by Janet Lambert
Teen Romance of the 1960s
62 books — 15 voters

Gore Vidal
...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal, Julian

Sylvia Plath
I could not run without having to run forever
Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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