1960s Library Resources: Year by Year
Booth Library’s book and media collections contain thousands of items from and about the decade of the
1960s. Below is a selected list of books and films released during each year of the decade. All of these, and
much more, may be borrowed from the Booth Library collections. Bibliographer: Marlene Slough.
1960
Books:
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age...........................................................HM271 .B44
Goldwater, Barry M. The Conscience of a Conservative.............................................................................JK271 .G668
Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.........................N70 .G615
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.............................................................................................PS3562.E36x T6 1960
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run................................................................................................................PS3571.P4 R3 2000x
Films:
Inherit the Wind.................................................................................................................PN1997 .I5797x 2001 .DVD
La Dolce Vita / The Sweet Life (Italian with English subtitles)..................................................... PN1997 .D644x .DVD
Psycho...................................................................................................................................................PN1997 .P78x .DVD
Spartacus............................................................................................................................................PN1997 .S625x .DVD
The Apartment................................................................................................................................PN1997 .A7983x .DVD
1961
Books:
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.................................................................................................................PS3558.E476 C3 1995
Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations, and its Prospects.......................HT111 .M8
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey..................................................................................................PS3537.A426 F7 2001x
Stone, Irving. The Agony and the Ecstasy..........................................................................................PS3537.T669 A34x
White, Theodore H. The Making of the President, 1960....................................................E840 .W5
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Films:
101 Dalmatians....................................................................................PN1997 .O53x 2008 .DVD
Breakfast at Tiffany’s......................................................................................PN1997 .B83x .DVD
Splendor in the Grass....................................................................................PN1997 .S698x .DVD
The Hustler............................................................................................PN1997 .H87x .DVD
West Side Story...................................................................................PN1997 .W454x .DVD
1962
Books:
Baldwin, James. Another Country..........................................................................................................PS3552.A45 A9x
Brown, Helen Gurley. Sex and the Single Girl................................................................................HQ800.2 .B759 2003
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring.............................................................................................................................SB959 .C3
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest...........................................................................PS3561.E667 O5 1996
Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America....................................................................E169 .S82
Films:
Dr. No...........................................................................................................................................PN1997 .D63745x .DVD
Lawrence of Arabia..................................................................................................................PN1997 .L396x 2008 .DVD
The Music Man...............................................................................................................................PN1997 .M875x .DVD
To Kill a Mockingbird....................................................................................................................PN1997 .T6513x .DVD
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?............................................................................................PN1997 .W47212x .DVD
1963
Books:
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique............................................................................................HQ1426 .F844 2001
Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-intellectualism in American Life......................................................................E169.1 .H74
Le Carré, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold..............................................................PR6062.E33 S64x 1964
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar..................................................................................................................PS3566.L27 B4x 1971
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Cat’s Cradle.........................................................................................................PS3572.O5 C3 1998
Films:
8 1/2 (Italian with English subtitles)...................................................................PN1997 .E56x .DVD
Il gattopardo / The leopard (Italian with English subtitles)...........................PN1997 .G3876x .DVD
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World....................................................................PN1997 .I756x .DVD
Lilies of the Field..........................................................................................PN1997 .L548x .DVD
The Birds......................................................................................................PN1997 .B575x .DVD
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1964
Books:
Bellow, Saul. Herzog............................................................................................................................PS3503.E4488 H5x
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast.......................................................................................PS3515.E37 Z475 1996
Jones, Howard Mumford. O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years.........E169.1 .J644 1964
King, Martin Luther Jr. Why We Can’t Wait...................................................................................E185.61 .K54 2000x
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man..............................................................P90 .M26
Films:
A Hard Day’s Night.........................................................................................................................PN1997 .H375x .DVD
Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb................PN1997 .D6376x 2004 .DVD
Goldfinger..........................................................................................................................................PN1997 .G645x .DVD
Mary Poppins.................................................................................................................................PN1997 .M3792x .DVD
My Fair Lady...................................................................................................................................PN1997 .M864x .DVD
1965
Books:
Herbert, Frank. Dune.......................................................................................................................PS3558.E63 D8 1999
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X..........................................................................BP223.Z8 L57943 1992
Nader, Ralph. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile.........TL242 .N3 1965x
O’Connor, Flannery. Everything That Rises Must Converge................................................................PS3565.C57 E8x
Teale, Edwin Way. Wandering through Winter...........................................................................................QH104 .T43
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Films:
Cat Ballou................................................................................................PN1997 .C3472x .DVD
Doctor Zhivago........................................................................................PN1997 .D6378x .DVD
Giulietta Degli Spiriti / Juliet of the Spirits
(Italian with English subtitles).................................................PN1997 .G523x .DVD
Obchod na Korze / The Shop on Main Street
(Czech with English subtitles).....................................................PN1997 .S532x .DVD
The Sound of Music...............................................................................PN1997 .S676x .DVD
1966
Books:
Barth, John. Giles Goat-boy..................................................................................................................PS3552.A75 G5x
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood....................................................................................................HV6533.K3 C3 2002
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture................................................................HT871 .D3
Gass, William H. Omensetter’s Luck...................................................................................................PS3557.A845 O4x
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49...................................................................................PS3566.Y55 C79 1997x
Films:
A Man for All Seasons.....................................................................................................................PN1997 .M35x .DVD
Au Hasard Balthazar / Balthazar (French with English subtitles)...........................................PN1997 .A8512x .DVD
Blowup.................................................................................................................................................PN1997 .B66x .DVD
La Bataille d’Alger / The Battle of Algiers (French with English subtitles)....................................PN1997 .B35x .DVD
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly....................................................................................................PN1997 .B8662x .DVD
1967
Books:
Mailer, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam?.........................................................................PS3525.A4152 W47 1968x
Manchester, William. The Death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963......................E842.9 .M28 1967
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind..................................................................................E169.1 .N37
Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner.....................................................................................PS3569.T9 C6x
Wilder, Thornton. The Eighth Day.........................................................................................................PS3545.I345 E4x
Films:
Bonnie and Clyde..............................................................................................................................PN1997 .B74x .DVD
Cool Hand Luke...............................................................................................................................PN1997 .C686x .DVD
In Cold Blood...................................................................................................................................PN1997 .T766x .DVD
Joi-uchi: Hairyo Tsuma Shimatsu / Samurai Rebellion (Japanese with English subtitles)..PN1997 .R3287x .DVD
The Graduate............................................................................................................................PN1997 .G85x .DVD
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1968
Books:
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey...............................................................................PR6005.L36 A615 1968x
Cleaver, Elridge. Soul on Ice.................................................................................................................E185.97 .C6 1968x
Dubos, René. So Human an Animal.............................................................................................................HM206 .D87
Ehrlich, Paul R. The Population Bomb...............................................................................................HB875 .E35 1968X
Hailey, Arthur. Airport............................................................................................................................PR6058.A43 A7x
Films:
2001: A Space Odyssey....................................................................................................................PN1997 .T875x .DVD
Funny Girl........................................................................................................................................PN1997 .F856x .DVD
Night of the Living Dead................................................................................................................PN1997 .N546x .DVD
Planet of the Apes.............................................................................................................................PN1997 .P625x .DVD
The Producers........................................................................................................................PN1997 .M437x 2005 .DVD
1969
Books:
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.................................................................E185.97.A56 A3 1969x
Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.........................................................E467.1.C99 D37
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness...........................................................................PS3562.E42 L39 1994
Puzo, Mario. The Godfather...........................................................................................................PS3566.U9 G6 1969x
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five.......................................................................................PS3572.O5 S55 1991x
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Films:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.........................................................................................PN1997 .B885x .DVD
Easy Rider..........................................................................................................................................PN1997 .E34x .DVD
Le Chagrin et la Pitié / The Sorrow and the Pity (French & German with English subtitles)..DC397 .S67x 2001 .DVD
Midnight Cowboy..................................................................................................................PN1997 .M516x .DVD
The Wild Bunch.....................................................................................................................PN1997 .W542x .DVD