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1960s, Best books published therein

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To Kill a Mockingbird

76,592 members

1,420 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: hipdeep, jefbra, roby72, merrystar, fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MichelleAnza, daniellepoitra2023

2

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,671 members

194 reviews

4

8 Members: roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, raperper, daniellepoitra2023

3

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

16,946 members

419 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, souloftherose, fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, daniellepoitra2023

4

by Joseph Heller

39,208 members

514 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, jefbra, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, daniellepoitra2023,ahef1963

5

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,595 members

673 reviews

4.2

6 Members: roby72, merrystar, EMS_24, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

6

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,733 members

295 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, jefbra, Myyst, alex68, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,167 members

690 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, Myyst, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MichelleAnza

8

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,590 members

168 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, jasmaynard, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

9

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,496 members

361 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, Myyst, souloftherose, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Truman Capote

23,171 members

457 reviews

4.1

6 Members: jefbra, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,142 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: thorold, roby72, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

12

by Sylvia Plath

27,453 members

486 reviews

4

6 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,462 members

108 reviews

3.8

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

14

Stranger in a Strange Land (Uncut Edition)

by Robert A. Heinlein

8,636 members

148 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, jefbra, merrystar, jasmaynard, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,fuzzi

15

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,293 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

16

by Jorge Luis Borges

6,696 members

82 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: thorold, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

17

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,458 members

380 reviews

4

6 Members: thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

18

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

38,378 members

940 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,742 members

134 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

20

by Heinrich Böll

2,429 members

40 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

21

5,131 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

22

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,425 members

369 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John le Carré

8,408 members

235 reviews

4

5 Members: souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963

24

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

24,285 members

439 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Thomas Pynchon

5,101 members

34 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

26

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,096 members

208 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

7,862 members

90 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, Myyst, alex68, ahef1963

28

Rosemary's Baby

4,480 members

135 reviews

3.8

4 Members: smcwl, jefbra, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

James and the Giant Peach

19,132 members

355 reviews

3.9

4 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, MichelleAnza

30

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

9,925 members

149 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: smcwl, jefbra, alex68, ahef1963

31

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9,533 members

118 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

32

Portnoy's Complaint

7,253 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, ahef1963

33

by Eugène Ionesco

1,371 members

16 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

34

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,767 members

414 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,229 members

242 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: thorold, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Italo Calvino

3,138 members

45 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, Myyst, alex68

37

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,129 members

293 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

3,350 members

79 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, souloftherose, fuzzi

39

by Stanisław Lem

6,400 members

153 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, Myyst, thecoroner, alex68

40

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

25,290 members

1,432 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

41

by Frank Herbert

40,743 members

649 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Myyst, souloftherose, alex68, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar ,Bretzky1

42

by Lloyd Alexander

4,863 members

60 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by S. E. Hinton

20,293 members

667 reviews

4

3 Members: fuzzi, ahef1963, MichelleAnza

44

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,459 members

305 reviews

3.9

3 Members: smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

15,309 members

372 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, jefbra, alex68, ahef1963,merrystar ,fuzzi

46

The Running Foxes

by Joyce Stranger

59 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: inge87, fuzzi

47

Up the Down Staircase

1,333 members

39 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963

48

The Green House

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,047 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

49

The Owl Service

1,905 members

47 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,226 members

24 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

51

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

3,951 members

64 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

52

by Lloyd Alexander

5,892 members

56 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

by Agatha Christie

3,726 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

54

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburō Ōe

1,824 members

36 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

55

The Reawakening

1,249 members

26 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

56

The Chronicles of Prydain

by Lloyd Alexander

555 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

57

Asterix the Gaul

by René Goscinny

2,442 members

36 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ahef1963

58

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

by E. L. Konigsburg

15,762 members

273 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer

852 members

23 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

60

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,666 members

36 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

61

The Black Cauldron

by Lloyd Alexander

6,639 members

94 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

62

by Kurt Vonnegut

21,902 members

293 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

5,524 members

71 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

64

On Heroes and Tombs

by Ernesto Sábato

947 members

21 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

65

The Book of Three

by Lloyd Alexander

7,685 members

159 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Castle of Llyr

by Lloyd Alexander

5,119 members

58 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Alberto Moravia

730 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

68

6,026 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68

69

The House on the Strand

by Daphne Du Maurier

2,296 members

59 reviews

3.8

3 Members: souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68

70

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

18,745 members

466 reviews

4

5 Members: hipdeep, roby72, Myyst, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda,fuzzi ,ahef1963

71

6,534 members

93 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, fuzzi, ahef1963

72

by Georgette Heyer

1,607 members

56 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, merrystar

73

by Marguerite Yourcenar

1,669 members

29 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

74

Asterix in Britain

by René Goscinny

1,955 members

22 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

75

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

7,932 members

74 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

1,301 members

29 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

77

Johnny the Partisan

by Beppe Fenoglio

342 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, alex68

78

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

1,883 members

46 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, souloftherose

79

by Julio Cortázar

4,988 members

98 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, alex68

80

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,425 members

348 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, ManWithAnAgenda

81

In a Summer Season

by Elizabeth Taylor

481 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, souloftherose

82

Stig of the Dump

902 members

15 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, souloftherose

83

At the Still Point

62 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: inge87

84

Le jeune neurotraumatisé : Seutenir le cheminement émotif et l'adaptation familiale

by Danielle Poitras-Martin

1 member

Member: daniellepoitra2023

85

10,707 members

181 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, MichelleAnza

86

by Jorge Luis Borges

1,066 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: inge87, alex68

87

Black Hearts in Battersea

1,079 members

22 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, souloftherose

88

by Philip K. Dick

7,401 members

156 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, Myyst

89

by George MacDonald Fraser

2,625 members

65 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

90

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

19,881 members

456 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

91

by H. Beam Piper

1,156 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, fuzzi

92

by Roger Zelazny

5,060 members

110 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, Myyst

93

Seven-Day Magic

by Edward Eager

1,192 members

14 reviews

4.2

2 Members: smcwl, merrystar

94

by Margaret Drabble

911 members

25 reviews

3.8

2 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963

95

Where the Red Fern Grows

by Wilson Rawls

14,040 members

347 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, fuzzi

96

by Frank Herbert

15,668 members

151 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Myyst, ManWithAnAgenda

97

Asterix and the Goths

by René Goscinny

1,697 members

17 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

98

Asterix and the Golden Sickle

by René Goscinny

1,665 members

15 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

99

Asterix the Gladiator

by René Goscinny

1,633 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

100

by Sylvia Plath

4,009 members

50 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Myyst, alex68

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