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1960s Books Read More Reading Challenge 2019 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape. It was an instant best seller when published in 1960, and won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
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Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
When Max dons his wolf suit, his imagination carries him to a land filled with lovable monsters. This book from 1963 is still enthusiastically loved.
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
The 1965 award-winning science-fiction classic follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke, who is given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.
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Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
Includes many of the author's best-known poems such as: 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', that were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
Sent to unravel the mystery of an enigmatic monolith left on the moon by an unknown alien intelligence, two astronauts aboard the spacecraft Discovery find their journey into space and their very lives jeopardized by the jealousy of an extraordinary computer named Hal. Originally released in 1968.
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
A handsome anniversary edition of the classic 1962 environmental study discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans, in a volume that incorporates new essays by Terry Tempest Williams and Linda Lear.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The critically acclaimed author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums. A best seller when published in 1969.
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Presents Capote's masterful account of the senseless 1959 murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas, and the search for the killers, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith. This one has been creeping out people since 1966.
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