Themes - Books that influenced 1960's

Books that influenced the 1960's

Soul on Ice by Cleaver
Invisible Man by Ellison
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Dorp Dead
Outsiders by Hinton
Goodbye Columbus
Portnoy's Complaint by Roth
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kessler
Rabbit Run by Updike
A Nation of Immigrants by Robert Kennedy
The Drifters by Michener
Siddhartha by Hesse
Summerhill
Lord of the Flies by Golding
Death Be Not Proud by Gunther
Wretched of the Earth by Fanon
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Wolfe
Clockwork Orange by Burgess
Naked Lunch by Burroughs
The Contender by Bonham
Atlas Shrugged by Rand
Fountainhead by Rand
Anthem by Rand
Five Smooth Stone by Cohen
The Pill by Cohen
Spring Hill Mine Disaster by Cohen
You Can't Go Home Again by Mann
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Love Story by Segal
Why Johnny Can't Read
Franny and Zooey by Salinger
Go Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin
Another Country by Baldwin
Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein
Native Son by Wright
The Green Berets by Moore
The Ambassador by West
Vietnam by McCarthy
The Ugly American by Lederer
Ho Chi Minh, On Revolution by Salisbury
Death at an Early Age by Kozol
Up the Down Staircase by Kaufman
Joy in the Morning by Smith
Silent Spring by Carson
Catch 22 by Heller
Hobbitt by Tolkien
The Return of the King by Tolkien
Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
The Feminine Mystique by Friedan
Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Gibbens
Good News for Modern Man
The Child Buyer by Hersey
The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
The Bell Jar by Plath
In Cold Blood by Capote
The Fixer by Malamud
Confessions of Nat Turner by Styron
The Godfather by Puzo
A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
1984 by Orwell
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
My Darling, My Hamburger by Zindel
Any Poetry by Rod McKuen
Unsafe at Any Speed by Nader
Hidden Persuaders by Packard
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King by Haskins
Four Days (Kennedy)
A Thousand Days by Schlesinger
The Making of the President by White
The Unfinished Odyssey by Kennedy
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller
With Love from Karen by Killea
I'm Really Dragged but Nothing Gets Me Down by Hentoff
Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald by Epstein
Vonnegut in America by Klinkow
J.D. Salinger by French
My Name is Aram by Saroyan
Man for All Seasons by Bolt
Spencer's Mountain by Hammer
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Bach
Exodus by Uris
Yeager by Chuck Yeager
Black Like Me by Griffin

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