Sixties


The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Chronicles, Volume One
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Hippie
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
11/22/63
No One Here Gets Out Alive
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
The Haight-Ashbury: A History
Inherent Vice
The Help
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie LeeHell's Angels by Hunter S. ThompsonSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Memoirs Published in the 1960s
48 books — 5 voters
Tullie's Receipts by Kitchen Guild  of the Tulli...I Walk Between the Raindrops by T.C. BoyleBlack Water Sister by Zen ChoIt's not all Airy-Fairy Loads of Crap by Julie RasmussenDirty Hippies by Scott Paulsen
D'yer Mak'er: Dyed Covers
65 books — 3 voters

DMT by Rick StrassmanFood of the Gods by Terence McKennaThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaTrue Hallucinations by Terence McKennaThe Psychedelic Explorer's Guide by James Fadiman
Best Altered States and More
65 books — 55 voters

Young Donald by Michael       BennettThis I Know by Eldonna EdwardsThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Fiction Set in 1960s
80 books — 123 voters
West Side Story by Irving ShulmanUp the Down Staircase by Bel KaufmanExplainers by Jules FeifferIt's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney NevilleHarriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
New York City in the Sixties
22 books — 7 voters

Very early on, the Hungryalists had announced, rather brashly, their lack of faith and what they thought of god. To them religion was an utter waste of time, and they made no bones about this. In fact, in one of their bulletins, they had openly denounced god and called organized religion nonsense. Many of the Hungryalists, with their sharp knowledge of Hindu scriptures, had been challenging temple elders on the different rituals and modes of worship. This came as a shock to many, in a country wh ...more
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury, The Hungryalists

Andy Warhol
I could never finally figure out if more things happened in the sixties because there was more awake time for them to happen in (since so many people were on amphetamine), or if people started taking amphetamine because there were so many things to do that they needed to have more awake time to do them in. I only slept two or three hours a night from '65 through '67, but I used to see people who hadn't slept for days at a time and they'd say things like "I'm hitting my ninth day and it's gloriou ...more
Andy Warhol, POPism: The Warhol Sixties

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