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Favorite Books from the 1960s

Description: Your favorite books written/published in the 1960s

Rank Title Author Added

1

Another Country

by James Baldwin

2,939 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Sylvia Plath

28,151 members

503 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,479 members

254 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

7,002 members

121 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Cargo of Eagles

by Margery Allingham

449 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

6

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

by Agatha Christie

3,850 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

7

1,020 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

8

Hallowe'en Party

by Agatha Christie

4,682 members

106 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

9

by Agatha Christie

2,969 members

71 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

10

by Kurt Vonnegut

22,350 members

300 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

11

A Caribbean Mystery

by Agatha Christie

3,653 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

12

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

2,376 members

53 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

13

Double Sin and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

1,175 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

14

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

by Agatha Christie

3,226 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

15

Myra Breckinridge

970 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Frank Herbert

42,684 members

693 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Agatha Christie

3,651 members

63 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

18

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,843 members

170 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

19

At Bertram's Hotel

by Agatha Christie

3,815 members

81 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

20

by Frederick Exley

1,110 members

14 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [1962 film]

by Robert Aldrich

125 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,326 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,961 members

384 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Truman Capote

23,798 members

467 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,506 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,591 members

139 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,392 members

297 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Velvet Room

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

499 members

11 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,551 members

190 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

16,253 members

279 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

5,743 members

72 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,627 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Owl Service

1,956 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,538 members

961 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

About This List

Started: Julie_in_the_Library
January 2023
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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