1962


A Clockwork Orange
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
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
The Outsiders by S.E. HintonTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Pigman by Paul ZindelThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul ZindelI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah  Green
1960's Young Adult Standalones
167 books — 23 voters
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
110 books — 60 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstThe Lonesome Place by August DerlethYours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert BlochWatch the Sky by James H. Schmitz
Books from 1962
41 books — 2 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
1,434 books — 1,777 voters

Nikos Kazantzakis
It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.
M. Lincoln Schuster, Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do

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