SS 310: Exploring the 1960's  

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1960: Growing Up Absurd, by Paul Goodman; Hawaii by James Michener

1961: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller; Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein; The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart; The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone; Franny and Zooey by J. D. Sallinger

1962: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey; Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter; A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury; Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel

1963: The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan; The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin; V., by Thomas Pynchon; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J. D. Sallinger; The Glass Blowers by Daphne du Maurier; The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West; The Group by Mary McCarthy 

1964: Candy, by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg; One-Dimensional Man, by Herbert Marcuse; Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré ; The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss; Herzog by Saul Bellow

1965: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley; Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman; The Source by James Michener 

1966: Ariel, by Sylvia Plath; Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, by Richard Fariña; Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann; The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton

1967: The Arrangement by Elia Kazan; The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder; The Chosen by Chiam Potok; The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

1968: The Armies of the Night, by Norman Mailer; Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe; The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, by Carlos Castaneda; Airport by Arthur Hailey; Couples by John Updike; The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes

1969: Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut; Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth; The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann; The Godfather by Mario Puzo

 from

Dirda, Michael (July 23, 1989). Books that helped make the age of aquarius. Washington Post. p.x10. http://www.richardandmimi.com/article-ageofaquarius.html

New York Times Best Seller Number Ones Listing Fiction By Date. http://www.hawes.com/no1_f_d.htm#1960's