108 books
—
23 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
60s Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,953
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,126,640 ratings — published 1960
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,183 ratings — published 1962
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,316,686 ratings — published 1963
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,947 ratings — published 1968
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,292 ratings — published 1968
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,690,725 ratings — published 1967
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,662 ratings — published 1969
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.00 — 792,858 ratings — published 1962
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.21 — 382,703 ratings — published 2010
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,477 ratings — published 1963
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 535,250 ratings — published 1968
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 756,361 ratings — published 1966
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,152,525 ratings — published 1967
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.51 — 251,879 ratings — published 2016
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.92 — 330,911 ratings — published 1961
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 237,791 ratings — published 1969
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,531 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,958 ratings — published 1979
Valley of the Dolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.87 — 81,053 ratings — published 1966
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,952,112 ratings — published 2019
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.01 — 377,203 ratings — published 1968
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,076 ratings — published 1961
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.28 — 450,810 ratings — published 1925
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,055 ratings — published 1965
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,504 ratings — published 1966
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.90 — 319,466 ratings — published 1962
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.90 — 100,121 ratings — published 1970
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,904,882 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,439,543 ratings — published 2017
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,313,155 ratings — published 1962
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.59 — 244,797 ratings — published 1962
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,109 ratings — published 1965
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.59 — 64,855 ratings — published 1960
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,364 ratings — published 1963
Hell's Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.97 — 56,687 ratings — published 1966
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.83 — 57,374 ratings — published 1963
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,930 ratings — published 1961
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,225 ratings — published 1968
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.40 — 479,130 ratings — published 1969
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 134,477 ratings — published 1963
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.06 — 167,294 ratings — published 1967
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,987 ratings — published 2009
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,070 ratings — published 1977
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.97 — 100,617 ratings — published 1963
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,084 ratings — published 1962
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.17 — 952,819 ratings — published 1964
“All I can say is, it's a good thing we didn't win the revolution [laughter]. We would've ended up with people like Abie Hoffman and Eldridge Cleaver at the helm; we would've been in big trouble. Big trouble. It would've been such a Stalinist purge ... All those people that were the top names in those movements back then were all egotistical assholes, it turned out, every single one of them [laughter].”
―
―
“I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties—not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder.”
― Desolation Row
― Desolation Row
