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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: 16 participating members
ManWithAnAgenda, sturlington, aulsmith, roby72, eromsted, ahef1963, thecoroner, edwinbcn, merrystar, fundevogel, pitjrw, dara85, KimarieBee, inge87, cej1027, geitebukkeskjegg

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Rank Title Author Added

1

by Truman Capote

22,435 members

443 reviews

4.1

8 Members: dara85, edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

37,190 members

914 reviews

4

7 Members: dara85, merrystar, sturlington, fundevogel, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Joseph Heller

38,290 members

503 reviews

4.1

7 Members: pitjrw, roby72, geitebukkeskjegg, sturlington, fundevogel, thecoroner, ahef1963,eromsted ,aulsmith

4

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,096 members

293 reviews

4.1

5 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, sturlington, fundevogel, ahef1963

5

by Kurt Vonnegut

21,405 members

287 reviews

4.1

5 Members: eromsted, pitjrw, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

24,767 members

375 reviews

4

5 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

7

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,437 members

150 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Portnoy's Complaint

7,131 members

145 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: edwinbcn, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

9

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,163 members

301 reviews

3.9

4 Members: pitjrw, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

10

Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

6,650 members

121 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, fundevogel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

4,379 members

118 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: eromsted, aulsmith, fundevogel

12

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

42,139 members

666 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, sturlington, fundevogel, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

13

by Sylvia Plath

26,552 members

477 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,004 members

237 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: edwinbcn, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

15

by Frank Herbert

38,930 members

637 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, fundevogel, ManWithAnAgenda,eromsted

16

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

1,610 members

26 reviews

½ 2.6

4 Members: eromsted, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner

17

5,004 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner,aulsmith

18

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,333 members

104 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

19

Up the Down Staircase

1,302 members

37 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dara85, aulsmith, ahef1963

20

Rosemary's Baby

4,313 members

132 reviews

3.8

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

10,553 members

190 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: eromsted, edwinbcn, roby72

22

by Ezra Jack Keats

13,253 members

740 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

4,964 members

162 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

24

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

9,647 members

144 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, fundevogel, ahef1963

25

Another Country

by James Baldwin

2,707 members

40 reviews

4.1

3 Members: eromsted, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Yukio Mishima

2,364 members

35 reviews

4.1

3 Members: edwinbcn, roby72, thecoroner

27

by P. D. Eastman

8,747 members

142 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

2,432 members

57 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, fundevogel

29

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,261 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: edwinbcn, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

7,656 members

88 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, fundevogel

31

Miami and the Siege of Chicago

by Norman Mailer

507 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: pitjrw, aulsmith

32

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

14,829 members

359 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

4,503 members

64 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

34

This Rough Magic

by Mary Stewart

1,323 members

35 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, merrystar, ahef1963,aulsmith

35

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

7,494 members

72 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

36

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

by Henry Farrell

286 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

37

Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play

by James Baldwin

532 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

38

Johnny the Partisan

by Beppe Fenoglio

329 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

39

970 members

9 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,178 members

24 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

41

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,273 members

133 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

42

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

6,819 members

188 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

43

To Kill a Mockingbird

74,444 members

1,409 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

44

The Green House

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,014 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

45

On Heroes and Tombs

by Ernesto Sábato

923 members

20 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

46

by Lloyd Alexander

4,717 members

59 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

47

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

1,178 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

48

The Black Cauldron

by Lloyd Alexander

6,409 members

92 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

49

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

16,322 members

416 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

50

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburō Ōe

1,776 members

34 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

51

by Frederick Exley

1,073 members

15 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

This Sweet Sickness

by Patricia Highsmith

491 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

53

At the Still Point

60 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: inge87

54

by Lloyd Alexander

5,562 members

52 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith

55

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,841 members

12 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

56

At Bertram's Hotel

by Agatha Christie

3,596 members

76 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963,aulsmith

57

James and the Giant Peach

18,303 members

347 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

58

Rocannon's World

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,379 members

37 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

by Paul Goodman

466 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

60

by Alberto Moravia

706 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

61

The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution

56 members

3.9

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

62

American Power and the New Mandarins

by Noam Chomsky

417 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

63

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

by National Advisory Comm...

314 members

3.9

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

64

City of Illusions

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,503 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

65

Rights in Conflict: The Walker Report

by Daniel Walker

87 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith

66

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

14,986 members

270 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Samuel R. Delany

3,518 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

68

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

2,366 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

69

The Boston Strangler

by Gerold Frank

315 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

70

Revolution for the Hell of It

by Abbie Hoffman

279 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: eromsted

71

Planet of Exile

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,250 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

72

13,522 members

410 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

73

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

23,265 members

430 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Stephen King

12,380 members

722 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda

75

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

by Margaret Craven

2,082 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

76

by Katherine Anne Porter

1,093 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

A Stranger in My Grave

by Margaret Millar

232 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

78

The Complete Peanuts: 1963-1964 Dailies & Sundays

by Charles M. Schulz

395 members

4 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

79

The Complete Peanuts: 1967-1968 Dailies & Sundays

by Charles M. Schulz

303 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Sneetches and Other Stories

4,081 members

90 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

81

A Kiss for Little Bear

by Else Holmelund Minarik

2,781 members

29 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Moon-Spinners

by Mary Stewart

1,450 members

27 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, merrystar,aulsmith

83

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,498 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

84

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

by William Steig

5,694 members

236 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

85

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

by Donald J. Sobol

3,675 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

20,806 members

1,034 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

87

Airs Above the Ground

by Mary Stewart

1,231 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

88

The Pooh Perplex

by Frederick C. Crews

580 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

The Right Stuff

4,438 members

66 reviews

4.2

2 Members: eromsted, aulsmith,ManWithAnAgenda

90

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

14,946 members

356 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

91

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

13,104 members

687 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

92

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,587 members

244 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

93

Why We Can't Wait

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1,392 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aulsmith

94

The Sixteen Documents of Vatican II

by Walter M. Abbott

1,210 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

95

Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer

830 members

22 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

96

by Peggy Parish

6,783 members

204 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

97

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

6,203 members

115 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: pitjrw

98

A Grain of Wheat

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

889 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

The New Moon with the Old

208 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

100

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3,382 members

45 reviews

4.1

Member: fundevogel

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