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1960s, Best books published therein

Description: Rank your favorite books published in the 1960s

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1

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,947 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: hipdeep, jefbra, roby72, merrystar, fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MichelleAnza, daniellepoitra2023

2

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,013 members

202 reviews

4

8 Members: roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, raperper, daniellepoitra2023

3

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,595 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, souloftherose, fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, daniellepoitra2023

4

by Joseph Heller

40,182 members

529 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, jefbra, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, daniellepoitra2023,ahef1963

5

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,629 members

698 reviews

4.2

6 Members: roby72, merrystar, EMS_24, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

6

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

24,264 members

298 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, jefbra, Myyst, alex68, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,215 members

709 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, Myyst, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MichelleAnza

8

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,889 members

171 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, jasmaynard, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

9

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,057 members

377 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, Myyst, souloftherose, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Truman Capote

23,874 members

467 reviews

4.1

6 Members: jefbra, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,255 members

172 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: thorold, roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

12

by Sylvia Plath

28,274 members

505 reviews

4

6 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,563 members

108 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

14

Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition)

by Robert A. Heinlein

8,766 members

150 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, jefbra, merrystar, jasmaynard, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,fuzzi

15

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,414 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

16

by Jorge Luis Borges

6,879 members

83 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: thorold, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

17

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,996 members

389 reviews

4

6 Members: thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

18

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,754 members

963 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,969 members

140 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

20

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,604 members

192 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, Myyst, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Heinrich Böll

2,486 members

40 reviews

4

5 Members: thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

22

5,218 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

23

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,050 members

385 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,651 members

240 reviews

4

5 Members: souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963

25

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,204 members

454 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Thomas Pynchon

5,221 members

36 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

27

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,416 members

209 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,047 members

90 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, Myyst, alex68, ahef1963

29

Rosemary's Baby

4,663 members

139 reviews

3.8

4 Members: smcwl, jefbra, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

James and the Giant Peach

19,900 members

363 reviews

3.9

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MichelleAnza

31

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

10,222 members

150 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: smcwl, jefbra, alex68, ahef1963

32

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,837 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

33

Portnoy's Complaint

7,404 members

155 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, ahef1963

34

by Eugène Ionesco

1,426 members

16 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

35

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,232 members

426 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,516 members

255 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thorold, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Italo Calvino

3,196 members

49 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, Myyst, alex68

38

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,445 members

297 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

3,465 members

85 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, souloftherose, fuzzi

40

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

26,280 members

1,451 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

41

by Stanisław Lem

6,609 members

158 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

42

by Frank Herbert

42,931 members

695 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Myyst, souloftherose, alex68, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar ,Bretzky1

43

by Lloyd Alexander

5,021 members

63 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by S. E. Hinton

21,203 members

680 reviews

4

3 Members: fuzzi, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

45

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,801 members

309 reviews

3.9

3 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,910 members

383 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, jefbra, alex68, ahef1963,merrystar ,fuzzi

47

The Running Foxes

by Joyce Stranger

60 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: inge87, fuzzi

48

Up the Down Staircase

1,362 members

40 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963

49

The Green House

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,072 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

50

The Owl Service

1,964 members

46 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,266 members

24 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

52

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,024 members

65 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

53

by Lloyd Alexander

6,047 members

59 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

by Agatha Christie

3,868 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

55

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburō Ōe

1,890 members

37 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

56

The Reawakening

1,280 members

28 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

57

The Chronicles of Prydain

by Lloyd Alexander

587 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

58

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

2,561 members

37 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ahef1963

59

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,400 members

280 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer

873 members

23 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

61

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,737 members

39 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

62

The Black Cauldron

by Lloyd Alexander

6,869 members

99 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Kurt Vonnegut

22,410 members

301 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

5,785 members

72 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

65

On Heroes and Tombs

by Ernesto Sábato

976 members

21 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

66

The Book of Three

by Lloyd Alexander

7,971 members

169 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Castle of Llyr

by Lloyd Alexander

5,279 members

61 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Alberto Moravia

755 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

69

6,162 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68

70

The House on the Strand

by Daphne Du Maurier

2,371 members

60 reviews

3.8

3 Members: souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68

71

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,425 members

476 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda,fuzzi ,ahef1963

72

6,614 members

93 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963

73

by Georgette Heyer

1,654 members

58 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

74

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,928 members

11 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, Myyst, alex68

75

by Marguerite Yourcenar

1,718 members

30 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

76

Asterix in Britain

by René Goscinny

2,028 members

22 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

77

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

8,311 members

76 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

78

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

1,335 members

29 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

79

Johnny the Partisan

by Beppe Fenoglio

350 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, alex68

80

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

1,927 members

48 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, souloftherose

81

by Julio Cortázar

5,140 members

102 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, alex68

82

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,901 members

359 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, ManWithAnAgenda

83

In a Summer Season

by Elizabeth Taylor

493 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, souloftherose

84

Stig of the Dump

936 members

15 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, souloftherose

85

At the Still Point

63 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: inge87

86

Le jeune neurotraumatisé : Seutenir le cheminement émotif et l'adaptation familiale

by Danielle Poitras-Martin

1 member

Member: daniellepoitra2023

87

11,049 members

184 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, MichelleAnza

88

by Jorge Luis Borges

1,093 members

17 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, alex68

89

Black Hearts in Battersea

1,113 members

25 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, souloftherose

90

by George MacDonald Fraser

2,675 members

66 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

91

by Philip K. Dick

7,654 members

162 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, Myyst

92

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,552 members

469 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

93

by H. Beam Piper

1,195 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, fuzzi

94

by Roger Zelazny

5,187 members

115 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, Myyst

95

Seven-Day Magic

by Edward Eager

1,226 members

14 reviews

4.1

2 Members: smcwl, merrystar

96

by Margaret Drabble

933 members

25 reviews

3.8

2 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963

97

Where the Red Fern Grows

by Wilson Rawls

14,731 members

352 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, fuzzi

98

Asterix and the Goths

by René Goscinny

1,778 members

17 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

99

by Frank Herbert

16,577 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, ManWithAnAgenda

100

Asterix and the Golden Sickle

by René Goscinny

1,734 members

15 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

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