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

Based on tag: 1960s

Members: 13 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4 5Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
20,257 members, 245 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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

Score: 16.47

2
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
19,269 members, 388 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: dara85 (3), edwinbcn (3), roby72 (10), ahef1963 (10), thecoroner (14), sturlington (21), aulsmith (46)

Score: 16.05

3
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
30,430 members, 791 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (2), dara85 (4), ahef1963 (7), fundevogel (12), sturlington (22)

Score: 12.65

4
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
33,909 members, 446 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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

Thumbs down: eromsted, aulsmith

Score: 11.73

5
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
21,438 members, 326 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: sturlington (3), edwinbcn (5), eromsted (15), thecoroner (24), roby72 (26)

Score: 11.33

6
11/22/63
by Stephen King
9,593 members, 632 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1), ahef1963 (3), sturlington (4)

Score: 9.87

7
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
6,328 members, 131 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

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

Score: 9.41

8
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
9,457 members, 262 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), sturlington (5), aulsmith (18)

Score: 8.62

9
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
15,433 members, 526 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (2), cej1027 (3), sturlington (20)

Score: 8.29

10
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
2,873 members, 71 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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

Score: 8.13

11
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
by Mao Tse-Tung
1,292 members, 19 reviews
2.69 stars (2.69 stars)

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

Score: 7.43

12
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,395 members, 55 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

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

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 7.19

13
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
36,800 members, 566 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (5), sturlington (6), ahef1963 (12), roby72 (31)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 7.08

14
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,493 members, 31 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), roby72 (3)

Score: 7.04

15
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
12,328 members, 160 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), fundevogel (8), sturlington (23)

Score: 7.03

16
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,296 members, 29 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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

Score: 6.99

17
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
18,848 members, 241 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: sturlington (7), ahef1963 (8), eromsted (13)

Score: 6.94

18
Up the Down Staircase
by Bel Kaufman
1,184 members, 32 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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

Score: 6.82

19
Dune
by Frank Herbert
30,393 members, 472 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (2), aulsmith (3), sturlington (8)

Thumbs down: eromsted

Score: 6.78

20
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
36,976 members, 550 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), roby72 (2)

Score: 6.73

21
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
3,778 members, 56 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6), eromsted (11), sturlington (25)

Score: 6.54

22
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
7,400 members, 92 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: inge87 (4), ahef1963 (19), sturlington (26)

Score: 6.52

23
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
6,777 members, 199 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: cej1027 (1), sturlington (9), edwinbcn (13)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 6.42

24
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
9,336 members, 159 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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

Score: 6.38

25
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
23,034 members, 408 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: sturlington (10), roby72 (15), thecoroner (17)

Score: 6.25

26
The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
8,217 members, 115 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), fundevogel (14), sturlington (27)

Score: 6.13

27
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
13,019 members, 153 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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

Score: 6.01

Explanations:

edwinbcn (18): Published in 1961.

28
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
666 members, 11 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (9), sturlington (28), eromsted (28)

Score: 5.79

29
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
2,010 members, 32 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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

Score: 5.77

30
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
9,057 members, 124 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (1), sturlington (29)

Score: 5.72

31
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
3,493 members, 100 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (2), sturlington (11)

Score: 5.56

32
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,471 members, 71 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5)

Score: 5.5

33
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
5,666 members, 95 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), roby72 (6)

Score: 5.38

36
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
6,698 members, 117 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), thecoroner (6)

Score: 5.23

37
The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution
by Tom Hayden
48 members, 0 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (24), eromsted (30), sturlington (32)

Score: 5.2

39
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
4,918 members, 81 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: inge87 (2), sturlington (34)

Score: 5.02

40
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
271 members, 1 review
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2), sturlington (35)

Score: 5.01

41
Revolution for the Hell of It
by Abbie Hoffman
246 members, 3 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: eromsted (2), sturlington (36)

Score: 5

42
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
5,634 members, 110 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), fundevogel (9)

Score: 4.98

43
On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
4,058 members, 149 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4), sturlington (12)

Score: 4.98

44
The Double Helix
by James D. Watson
2,473 members, 36 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: edwinbcn (4), ahef1963 (15)

Score: 4.86

45
Yellow Submarine [sound recording]
by The Beatles
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: geitebukkeskjegg (3), sturlington (24)

Score: 4.85

46
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
by James Baldwin
436 members, 4 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: eromsted (3), aulsmith (33)

Score: 4.71

47
Johnny the Partisan
by Beppe Fenoglio
282 members, 4 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (9)

Score: 4.69

48
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas Llosa
963 members, 22 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: roby72 (9), thecoroner (10)

Score: 4.56

49
Howl
by Allen Ginsberg
331 members, 5 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (6), edwinbcn (11), sturlington (37)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 4.37

50
The Green House
by Mario Vargas Llosa
848 members, 11 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: roby72 (7), thecoroner (22)

Score: 4.31

51
Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
1,084 members, 5 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (5), sturlington (38)

Score: 4.29

52
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
3,149 members, 55 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (9), edwinbcn (17)

Score: 4.28

Explanations:

edwinbcn (17): Published in 1969.

53
Stonewall
by Martin Bauml Duberman
586 members, 3 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: eromsted (5), sturlington (39)

Score: 4.28

54
On Heroes and Tombs
by Ernesto Sábato
717 members, 11 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), roby72 (17)

Score: 4.17

56
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
3,411 members, 59 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: roby72 (13), thecoroner (16)

Score: 4.11

57
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
11,148 members, 426 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: sturlington (13), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 4.08

58
A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburō Ōe
1,500 members, 27 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (18)

Score: 4.01

59
DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution
by Jerry Rubin
236 members, 5 reviews
2.92 stars (2.92 stars)

Lists: eromsted (1)

Score: 4

60
The 1960s (Decades of the 20th Century)
by Nick Yapp
194 members, 2 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: geitebukkeskjegg (1)

Score: 4

61
At the Still Point
by Mary Benson
57 members, 2 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1)

Score: 4

62
Another Country
by James Baldwin
2,193 members, 30 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (10), eromsted (29)

Score: 3.97

63
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
2,046 members, 33 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15), roby72 (19)

Score: 3.95

64
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
1,653 members, 19 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: eromsted (9), aulsmith (36)

Score: 3.94

65
The Physicists
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
0 members, 0 reviews

Lists: thecoroner (12), roby72 (32)

Score: 3.83

66
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
25,185 members, 1,403 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (1), ahef1963 (23)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 3.83

67
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
6,820 members, 77 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (11), aulsmith (37)

Score: 3.82

68
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
by Edward Gorey
2,113 members, 46 reviews
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: fundevogel (13), sturlington (40)

Score: 3.7

69
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
by Robert Shelton
362 members, 3 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (13), sturlington (41)

Score: 3.69

70
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
by Paul Goodman
401 members, 4 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (21), eromsted (25)

Score: 3.66

71
Boredom
by Alberto Moravia
590 members, 9 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20), roby72 (27)

Score: 3.65

72
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
5,212 members, 94 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21), thecoroner (29)

Score: 3.59

73
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,401 members, 140 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: roby72 (24), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.55

74
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by Suze Rotolo
310 members, 13 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (14), sturlington (57)

Score: 3.52

75
American Power and the New Mandarins
by Noam Chomsky
359 members, 2 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (25), eromsted (31)

Score: 3.48

76
The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation
by Ann Snitow
73 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (15), sturlington (58)

Score: 3.48

77
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
by National Advisory Comm...
251 members, 0 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: eromsted (22), aulsmith (39)

Score: 3.45

78
The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971
by Gayle Lemke
60 members, 1 review
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (17), sturlington (55)

Score: 3.44

79
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
by Maurice Isserman
158 members, 1 review
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: eromsted (17), sturlington (56)

Score: 3.43

80
Death of a Rebel/a Biography of Phil Ochs
by Marc Eliot
80 members, 2 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (28), eromsted (32)

Score: 3.42

81
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Raymond Arsenault
209 members, 1 review
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: eromsted (19), sturlington (54)

Score: 3.39

82
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
by Peter Wyden
209 members, 1 review
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: eromsted (20), sturlington (53)

Score: 3.37

83
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
2,982 members, 65 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (2)

Score: 3.36

84
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
by Bobby Seale
248 members, 1 review
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: eromsted (21), sturlington (52)

Score: 3.36

85
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Ernest R. May
234 members, 2 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: eromsted (23), sturlington (51)

Score: 3.32

86
The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times
by Neil Sheehan
445 members, 0 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (26), sturlington (50)

Score: 3.28

87
The Death of a President: November 1963
by William Manchester
985 members, 10 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (27), sturlington (49)

Score: 3.27

90
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
by Pamela Des Barres
702 members, 14 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (42), sturlington (46)

Score: 3.11

92
The Collector
by John Fowles
4,155 members, 113 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (3)

Score: 3.04

93
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
by Margaret Craven
1,794 members, 32 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: inge87 (3)

Score: 3.04

95
The Sixteen Documents of Vatican II (Ecclesial Classics)
by Vatican Council
81 members, 1 review
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (5)

Score: 2.68

96
This Rough Magic
by Mary Stewart
1,146 members, 25 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (4), ahef1963 (27)

Thumbs down: aulsmith

Score: 2.58

97
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
3,836 members, 62 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7), ahef1963 (13)

Thumbs down: dara85

Score: 2.57

Explanations:

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

98
The Lords of Discipline
by Pat Conroy
1,750 members, 26 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (6)

Score: 2.56

99
Natchez Burning
by Greg Iles
1,140 members, 71 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: dara85 (6)

Score: 2.56

100
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
886 members, 24 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: eromsted (6)

Score: 2.56

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