383 books
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36 voters
60s Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,791
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,921,620 ratings — published 1960
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,457 ratings — published 1962
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,235,062 ratings — published 1963
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,616,149 ratings — published 1967
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,200 ratings — published 1968
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,784 ratings — published 1968
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,489,494 ratings — published 1969
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.21 — 357,589 ratings — published 2010
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.00 — 773,189 ratings — published 1962
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 733,316 ratings — published 1966
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.15 — 438,840 ratings — published 1963
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 515,898 ratings — published 1968
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.51 — 244,290 ratings — published 2016
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.10 — 223,088 ratings — published 1969
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,111,524 ratings — published 1967
Valley of the Dolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.86 — 77,988 ratings — published 1966
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.92 — 327,011 ratings — published 1961
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.99 — 889,320 ratings — published 1961
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,400 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,619 ratings — published 1979
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,866,500 ratings — published 2019
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.28 — 424,694 ratings — published 1967
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.01 — 363,264 ratings — published 1968
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.91 — 298,920 ratings — published 1962
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,290,123 ratings — published 1962
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.69 — 98,116 ratings — published 1966
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,553 ratings — published 1965
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,802,022 ratings — published 2022
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,145,576 ratings — published 2017
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.59 — 107,626 ratings — published 1966
Hell's Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.98 — 55,100 ratings — published 1966
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.90 — 92,177 ratings — published 1970
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.59 — 63,694 ratings — published 1960
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.69 — 61,431 ratings — published 1961
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,719 ratings — published 1963
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.18 — 337,350 ratings — published 1968
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.40 — 466,698 ratings — published 1969
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.59 — 236,648 ratings — published 1962
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.09 — 128,142 ratings — published 1963
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.06 — 160,304 ratings — published 1967
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,609 ratings — published 2009
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,218 ratings — published 1977
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,725 ratings — published 1962
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.17 — 934,154 ratings — published 1964
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.24 — 105,768 ratings — published 1961
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 60s)
avg rating 4.24 — 801,543 ratings — published 1966
“She slipped free crusty pies filled with apple-flavored lumps of sugar to the runaway rent boys she befriended who operated around the station
With no idea that in years to come she’d be attending their funerals
They didn’t realize unprotected sex meant a dance with death
Nobody did”
― Girl, Woman, Other
With no idea that in years to come she’d be attending their funerals
They didn’t realize unprotected sex meant a dance with death
Nobody did”
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
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