A Century of Books VII
By the Decade: 1960-1969

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

Many titles are available in large print, audio, or electronic formats. The Readers Services desk staff will be happy to help you find any of these titles.

1960:

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany,
William L. Shirer  943.086 SHI

The Age of Roosevelt, Arthur Meier Schlesinger  973.91 SCH

1961:

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

1962:

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson  363.7384 CAR

A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts, Robert Bolt  822.914 BOL

The Guns of August, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman  940.3 TUC

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

The Reivers: A Reminiscence, William Faulkner

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

The Golden Notebook, Doris May Lessing

Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

1963:

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré

The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath  YA FIC PLATH

Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

1964:

The Far Field, Theodore Roethke  811 ROE

Little Big Man, Thomas Berger

The Keepers of the House, Shirley Ann Grau

The Deep Blue Good-by, John D. MacDonald

The Man, Irving Wallace

1965:

Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown  305.896073 BRO

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences,
Truman Capote  364.1523 CAP

Ariel, Sylvia Plath  811.54 PLA

The Old Glory, Robert Lowell  812 LOW

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X  B X

Dune, Frank Herbert

At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen

Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor

The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark

1966:

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays, Susan Sontag  809 SON

Live or Die, Anne Sexton  811.54 SEX

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, Lilian Jackson Braun

Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong, James Clavell

The Fixer, Bernard Malamud

The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

1967:

Stop-Time, Frank Conroy  813.54 CON

At Wit’s End, Erma Bombeck  818.54 BOM

Only When I Laugh, Len Deighton

Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin

The Chosen, Chaim Potok

The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron

1968:

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe  306.1 WOL

In the Mecca: Poems, Gwendolyn Brooks  811.54 AND

I Never Sang for My Father: A Play in Two Acts,
Robert Woodruff Anderson  812.54 AND

Little Murders, Jules Feiffer  812.54 FEI

Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver  B Cleaver

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

Airport, Arthur Hailey

Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey

House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday

1969:

Mr. Bridge, Evan S. Connell

The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

Portnoy’s Complaint,  Philip Roth

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
Kurt Vonnegut

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