1960s Reading Suggestions for Adults and Teens
The library starts two programs to reach more residents. Two new branches open at the Boys’
Club (now Boys and Girls Club) and the Townsend Community Center.
Reading suggestions
Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by: Harper Lee
F L4785tk
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
F K419on
Catch­22
by: Joseph Heller
F HELL
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
F G2165o3
Dune
by: Frank Herbert
FS HERB
Flowers for Algernon
by: Daniel Keyes
F KEYE
The Bell Jar
by: Sylvia Plath
F P716b
The Godfather
by: Mario Puzo
F PUZO
Cat’s Cradle
by: Kurt Vonnegut
F V9473c
Stranger in a Strange Land
by: Robert A. Heinlein
FS H4695s
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by: Philip K. Dick
FS D547do
Franny and Zooey
by: J.D. Salinger
F S165f
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by: Walter M. Miller, jr.
FS M652c
The Last Unicorn
by: Peter S. Beagle
FS B3658L
A Wizard of Earthsea
by: Ursula K. Le Guin
F L521w
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
F R4795w
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
by: Robert A. Heinlein
FS H4695mo
Rabbit, Run
by: John Updike
F U66ra
The Magus
by: John Fowles
F F7895M
Portnoy’s Complaint
by: Philip Roth
F R8454pc
The Winter of our Discontent
by: John Steinbeck
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Non­fiction
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, MLK Jr and the Laws That Changed America
by: Nick Katz
323 K87
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years: 1963­65
by: Taylor Branch
323.119 B81
Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life of MLK Jr
by: Stephen B. Oates
B K526o2
Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960­72
by: Kenneth O’Reilly
973.0496 O66
In Love With Night: The American Romance With Robert Kennedy
by: Ronald B. Steel
B K364st
Letters to Jackie: Condolences From A Grieving Nation
by: Ellen F. Fitzpatrick
973.922 L65
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, And The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
by: Frederick Kempke
943.155 K32
Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual JFK
by: James D. Blight
959.704 B64
Grace And Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
by: Sally Bedell Smith
B K348sm
Averting the “Final Failure:” JFK and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
by: Sheldon M. Stern
973.922 S83
JFK And Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle For Power
by: John M. Newman
959.704 N55
Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural Revolution in America
by: Larry B. Sloman
B H699s
A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
by: Paul Berman
306.09 B51
“We’re Going To See The Beatles!:” An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans
Who Were There
by: Gary Berman
782.421 B516
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by: Vincent Bugliosi
364.1523 B93a
First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong
by: James R. Hansen
B A7375h
The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
by: Steve Hendricks
323.119 H49
Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmasking of the American Consensus
by: Rick Perlstein
973.92 P45
Young Adult Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by: Harper Lee
YA PB LEE
The Outsiders
by: S.E. Hinton
YA F HINT
The Bell Jar
by: Sylvia Plath
YA F P716be
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by: Scott, O’Dell
YA PB ODEL
The Wizard of Earthsea
by: Ursula K. Le Guin
YA PB LEGU
Where the Red Fern Grows
by: Wilson Rawls
YA F R2617w
The Book of Three
by: Lloyd Alexander
YA F A376bo
The Pigman
by: Paul Zindel
YA F Z775pa
Sounder
by: William Howard Armstrong
YA F A739so
Flight to Freedom
by: Ana Veciana­Suarez
YA F V4115f
The Return of Gabriel
by: John Armistead
YA F A731r
The Fire­eaters
by: David Almond
YA F A452f
Full Service
by: Will Weaver
YA F W3634fu
A Summer of Kings
by: Han Nolan
YA F N787su
The Wednesday Wars
by: Gary D. Schmidt
YA F S351we
My Mother the Cheerleader
by: Robert Sharenow
YA F S53132m
Dark Dude
by: Oscar Hijuelos
YA F H6395d
The Rock and the River
by: Kekla Magoon
YA F MAGO
Young Adult Non­fiction
The March on Washington, 1963: Gathering to be Heard
by: Tricia Andryszewski
YA 323.1 A57
Free At Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died In The
Struggle
by: Sara Bullard
YA 323.1 B93
The Beatles: Leading the British Invasion
by: Diane Dakers
YA 782.4216 D13
The Moon Landing: July 20, 1969
by: Paul Mason
YA 629.454 M41
What They Didn’t Teach You About The 60s
by: Mike Wright
YA 973.923 W95
The Kennedy Assassination: November 22, 1963
by: Liz Gogerly
YA 973.922 G61