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  1. Best Novels about the 1960s (fiction) (189 books)

    date newest ». 189 books based on 266 votes: The Help by Kathryn Stockett, 11/22/63 by Stephen King, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, Wild World by Peter S...

  2. 20 Bestsellers Published in the 1960s

    One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the "post-Pill paradise." It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New ...

  3. The 21 best fiction books of the 1960s

    Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (1960) Lady Chatterley's Lover follows Constance (Connie) Chatterley, and her dispassionate marriage to Sir Clifford, a wealthy landowner. After a disappointing affair with the playwright Michaelis, Connie turns to the estate's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, who awakens her passions.

  4. A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1960s

    And yet. Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) Even if Joan Didion wasn't on a certain tote bag, this collection would hold its own as an essential text of the 1960s—one that defines and describes it, particularly if you live in California. In 1979, Michiko Kakutani wrote that Didion "has created, in her books, one of the most ...

  5. 1960s Books: 38 Modern Classics Published in the Sixties

    Discover the best 1960s books with these modern classic books from 1960s science fiction to popular novels of the 60s. When you think about the 1960s, you think of a world in upheaval. With the Civil Rights Movement sweeping through the United States and the growing antiwar sentiment to the Vietnam War, the decade saw ... Read More about 1960s ...

  6. Best Selling Novels of the 1960s

    Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction. Ranking the best novels and non-fiction books of every genre. A list of the best selling novels in the US during the 1960's as reported by Publishers Weekly. This list ranges from 1960 through 1969.

  7. Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in

    This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1960 through 1969.. The standards set for inclusion in the lists - which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s - are currently unknown.

  8. Historical Fiction Set in the 1960s

    by Fiona Davis. The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of the 1950s and 1960s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about a twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women's lives — from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of ...

  9. 16 Popular Books From The '60s

    The 1960s were responsible for cassette tapes, Buffalo wings, Zip Codes, Sharpies, and Kevlar. The decade also featured some pretty intense '60s books as well as authors who created timeless classics that will live on for decades. Like the '70s, many 1960s books land in the sci-fi genre while others find strength in literary and historical ...

  10. 26 Tantalizing Books About the 1960s

    Explore the best books about the 1960s, a decade marked by the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, antiwar sentiment, and 60s counterculture. ... You'll find something for everyone: fun 1960s historical fiction, nonfiction books about the 1960s, and even a few classic 1960s books worth a read. Don't Miss a Thing. Best Books About the 1960s.

  11. 20 books that defined the 1960s

    Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1960) Something of a rogue entry, this, as it was originally published in 1929 in Paris. But back then, tastemakers of the British establishment considered the story so obscene that they thought genteel society couldn't possibly have the stomach for so much smut.

  12. 6 Historical Fiction Books Set in the 1960s

    6 Historical Fiction Books Set in the 1960s. Algonquin Books. Join eighteen-year-old Erica as she navigates the Greek island of Hydra and the lives of the real-life Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, the young, charismatic poet Leonard Cohen, and his beautiful, troubled muse, Marianne. Roiling with the heat of a Grecian ...

  13. Here Are the 1960s Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read

    The 1960s were a great decade for literary science fiction — it was a time when new writers were bringing new themes into the genre, and exploring old themes in radically new ways.

  14. The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1960s

    The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1960s. The 1960s is infamous for its counter-culture, folk music, Beatles, rock music, civil rights, feminism, Watts and Stonewall riots, the Viet Nam war, radical youth, hippies, campus unrest, generation gap and to a special few, the dangerous visions of the New Wave in science fiction.

  15. Books Set in the 1960s

    Setting: Early 1960s, California. First published 2022. Elizabeth Zott is a quirky and brilliant female chemist working with an all-male team at the Hastings Research Institute. But her scientific qualifications don't stop the "good old boys" from being frustrated that she won't get coffee or make copies for them.

  16. 9 terrific British sci-fi novels of the 1960s

    The Hieros Gamos Of Sam And An Smith - Josephine Saxton (1969) A boy walks through a strange land, perhaps a post-apocalyptic one, and yet it holds no threat for him. There are no wild animals ...

  17. Young Adult Fiction Set in the 1960s

    Historical fiction can transport readers back to many different eras. Here are 14 young adult books that take readers back to the 1960s, a time when the world was going through major upheavals in pop culture, race relations, and attitudes towards war and government. Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

  18. The Top Books to Read From 2000-2023

    Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 - 2023 chosen by our editors. ... top authors and critics join the Book Review's podcast to talk about the latest news in the literary world.