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Description: Tag list covering anything 1960s'. Anybody feeling for it, you're free to vote for "the most sixtiesish" item on the list. (It's an experiment, don't take it too seriously. Just testing.)

Based on tag: 1960s

Members: 14 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4 5Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
18,046 members, 374 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: dara85 (3), edwinbcn (3), roby72 (10), ahef1963 (10), thecoroner (14), aulsmith (46)

Score: 14.18

2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
19,260 members, 227 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (1), ahef1963 (2), fundevogel (3), eromsted (14)

Score: 12.47

3
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
28,106 members, 730 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (2), dara85 (4), ahef1963 (7), fundevogel (12)

Score: 10.8

4
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
8,922 members, 245 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), barney67 (1), aulsmith (18)

Score: 9.94

5
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,152 members, 51 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: roby72 (1), thecoroner (3), barney67 (7), edwinbcn (12)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 9.65

6
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
6,036 members, 126 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (6), ahef1963 (21), thecoroner (26), roby72 (33), aulsmith (45)

Score: 9.41

7
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,162 members, 28 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (7), thecoroner (8), barney67 (11), roby72 (12)

Score: 9.18

8
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
12,506 members, 147 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: barney67 (4), roby72 (11), edwinbcn (18), thecoroner (21)

Score: 8.84

Explanations:

edwinbcn (18): Published in 1961.

9
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
32,207 members, 425 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: geitebukkeskjegg (2), fundevogel (4), ahef1963 (6), roby72 (23), thecoroner (25)

Thumbs down: eromsted, aulsmith

Score: 8.36

10
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
20,245 members, 308 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (5), eromsted (15), thecoroner (24), roby72 (26)

Score: 8.29

11
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
2,470 members, 54 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (1), aulsmith (8), eromsted (27)

Score: 8.13

12
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
by Mao Tse-Tung
1,215 members, 15 reviews
2.7 stars (2.7 stars)

Lists: eromsted (8), thecoroner (27), roby72 (34), aulsmith (35)

Score: 7.43

13
11/22/63: A Novel
by Stephen King
8,673 members, 602 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1), ahef1963 (3)

Score: 7.04

14
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,269 members, 31 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), roby72 (3)

Score: 7.04

15
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
2,359 members, 35 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (4), barney67 (12), ahef1963 (15)

Score: 7.01

16
Up the Down Staircase
by Bel Kaufman
1,126 members, 31 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: dara85 (5), aulsmith (12), ahef1963 (16)

Score: 6.82

17
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34,901 members, 520 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), roby72 (2)

Score: 6.73

18
Dune
by Frank Herbert
28,257 members, 420 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (2), aulsmith (3), barney67 (9)

Thumbs down: eromsted

Score: 6.71

19
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
3,515 members, 50 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), eromsted (11), barney67 (30)

Score: 6.46

20
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
14,222 members, 503 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (2), cej1027 (3)

Score: 6.4

21
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
8,910 members, 153 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (8), eromsted (12), roby72 (22)

Score: 6.38

22
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
3,089 members, 28 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: barney67 (2), inge87 (7)

Score: 5.82

23
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
1,858 members, 29 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (13), edwinbcn (15), roby72 (36)

Score: 5.77

24
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,213 members, 66 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5)

Score: 5.5

25
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
5,408 members, 95 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), roby72 (6)

Score: 5.38

26
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
3,732 members, 72 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: barney67 (3), edwinbcn (9)

Score: 5.35

27
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
6,366 members, 105 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), thecoroner (6)

Score: 5.23

28
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
11,795 members, 152 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), fundevogel (8)

Score: 5.21

29
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
4,525 members, 62 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: inge87 (2), barney67 (36)

Score: 5

30
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
5,224 members, 106 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), fundevogel (9)

Score: 4.98

31
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
6,881 members, 87 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: inge87 (4), ahef1963 (19)

Score: 4.74

32
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
by James Baldwin
393 members, 3 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: eromsted (3), aulsmith (33)

Score: 4.71

33
Johnny the Partisan
by Beppe Fenoglio
253 members, 2 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (9)

Score: 4.69

34
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas Llosa
865 members, 22 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), thecoroner (10)

Score: 4.56

35
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
34,936 members, 540 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (5), ahef1963 (12), roby72 (31)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 4.52

36
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
17,737 members, 220 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), eromsted (13)

Score: 4.49

37
The Last Gentleman
by Walker Percy
732 members, 7 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: inge87 (6), barney67 (22)

Score: 4.4

38
The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
7,721 members, 100 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), fundevogel (14)

Score: 4.38

39
The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
by Bernard Lewis
421 members, 4 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: barney67 (10), ahef1963 (14)

Score: 4.32

40
The Green House
by Mario Vargas Llosa
782 members, 11 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: roby72 (7), thecoroner (22)

Score: 4.31

41
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
2,961 members, 50 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (9), edwinbcn (17)

Score: 4.28

Explanations:

edwinbcn (17): Published in 1969.

42
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2,834 members, 38 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (7), barney67 (26)

Score: 4.23

43
On Heroes and Tombs
by Ernesto Sábato
618 members, 10 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), roby72 (17)

Score: 4.17

45
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
6,273 members, 184 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), edwinbcn (13)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 4.11

46
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,221 members, 56 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: roby72 (13), thecoroner (16)

Score: 4.11

47
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
631 members, 10 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (9), eromsted (28)

Score: 4.05

48
A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oë
1,408 members, 27 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (18)

Score: 4.01

49
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
21,807 members, 386 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15), thecoroner (17)

Score: 4

50
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
8,695 members, 118 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (1)

Score: 4

51
DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution
by Jerry Rubin
224 members, 4 reviews
2.87 stars (2.87 stars)

Lists: eromsted (1)

Score: 4

52
The 1960s (Decades of the 20th Century)
by Nick Yapp
186 members, 2 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: geitebukkeskjegg (1)

Score: 4

53
At the Still Point
by Mary Benson
54 members, 2 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1)

Score: 4

54
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
by J. D. Salinger
5,161 members, 47 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: barney67 (14), aulsmith (19)

Score: 3.98

55
Another Country
by James Baldwin
2,012 members, 27 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (10), eromsted (29)

Score: 3.97

56
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
1,893 members, 28 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), roby72 (19)

Score: 3.95

57
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
1,531 members, 16 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: eromsted (9), aulsmith (36)

Score: 3.94

58
The Physicists
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: thecoroner (12), roby72 (32)

Score: 3.83

59
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
23,784 members, 1,383 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (1), ahef1963 (23)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 3.83

60
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
6,446 members, 70 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (11), aulsmith (37)

Score: 3.82

61
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
by Paul Goodman
374 members, 3 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (21), eromsted (25)

Score: 3.66

62
Boredom
by Alberto Moravia
548 members, 7 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20), roby72 (27)

Score: 3.65

64
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
4,927 members, 85 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.59

66
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,062 members, 134 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: roby72 (24), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.55

67
Three Case Histories
by Sigmund Freud
395 members, 1 review
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), barney67 (35)

Score: 3.54

68
The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution
by Tom Hayden
46 members, 0 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (24), eromsted (30)

Score: 3.52

69
American Power and the New Mandarins
by Noam Chomsky
348 members, 2 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (25), eromsted (31)

Score: 3.48

70
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
by National Advisory Comm...
244 members, 0 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: eromsted (22), aulsmith (39)

Score: 3.45

71
Death of a Rebel/a Biography of Phil Ochs
by Marc Eliot
76 members, 2 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (28), eromsted (32)

Score: 3.42

73
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
3,186 members, 84 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (2)

Score: 3.36

74
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
2,767 members, 62 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2)

Score: 3.36

75
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
253 members, 1 review
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2)

Score: 3.36

76
Revolution for the Hell of It
by Abbie Hoffman
235 members, 3 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: eromsted (2)

Score: 3.36

77
The Collector
by John Fowles
3,929 members, 109 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (3)

Score: 3.04

78
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
by Margaret Craven
1,696 members, 28 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: inge87 (3)

Score: 3.04

79
Yellow Submarine [sound recording]
by The Beatles
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: geitebukkeskjegg (3)

Score: 3.04

80
On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
3,860 members, 137 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4)

Score: 2.83

82
Collected Poems, 1909—1962
by T. S. Eliot
2,336 members, 16 reviews
4.46 stars (4.46 stars)

Lists: barney67 (6), ahef1963 (11)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 2.75

83
Howl
by Allen Ginsberg
327 members, 5 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (6), edwinbcn (11)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 2.75

84
Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
977 members, 4 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (5)

Score: 2.68

85
Stonewall
by Martin Bauml Duberman
526 members, 2 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: eromsted (5)

Score: 2.68

86
The Sixteen Documents of Vatican II (Ecclesial Classics)
by Vatican Council
72 members, 0 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (5)

Score: 2.68

87
This Rough Magic
by Mary Stewart
1,069 members, 25 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (4), ahef1963 (27)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 2.58

88
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
3,599 members, 57 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7), ahef1963 (13)

Thumbs down: dara85

Score: 2.57

Explanations:

dara85 (0): This was the 1970's.

89
The Lords of Discipline
by Pat Conroy
1,682 members, 26 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (6)

Score: 2.56

90
Natchez Burning
by Greg Iles
1,001 members, 63 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: dara85 (6)

Score: 2.56

91
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
803 members, 22 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: eromsted (6)

Score: 2.56

92
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
11,183 members, 205 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (7)

Score: 2.46

93
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
1,129 members, 35 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (7)

Score: 2.46

94
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
by Lily Koppel
755 members, 67 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Lists: dara85 (7)

Score: 2.46

95
Summer of Night
by Dan Simmons
1,385 members, 31 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (8)

Score: 2.38

96
Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain
620 members, 60 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: dara85 (8)

Score: 2.38

97
Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
1,343 members, 121 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: dara85 (9)

Score: 2.31

98
Play it as it Lays
by Joan Didion
1,986 members, 37 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (10)

Score: 2.25

99
The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
1,693 members, 30 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: eromsted (10)

Score: 2.25

100
City of Night
by John Rechy
755 members, 7 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (11)

Score: 2.2

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