Literature of the 1960s

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Works of Literature from the 1960s.

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• 18 Greatest Science Fiction Stories
• 50 Short Science Fiction Tales
• Ada, or Ardor
• The Adventures of Strong Vanya. Published in 1968.
• After Doomsday
• Airport
• The Alien Ones
• Alice, Girl from the Future
• Amelia Bedelia
• Anpanman. Series started in 1969.
• The Andromeda Strain
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Asian Saga started in 1962.
• At Bertram's Hotel.
• Atlan
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• Aubrey-Maturin. Series started in 1969.
• Babel-17
• Beautiful Losers
• Behind the Sandrat Hoax
• The Bell Jar
• Ben Safford Mysteries. Series started in 1968.
• Ben Snow. The series started in 1961.
• The Berenstain Bears. The Book series started in 1962.
• Berserker. First story was from 1963.
• Bill the Galactic Hero. Series started in 1965.
• Black Midas
• Black Sheep (1966)
• Bolo. First story of the series was from 1960.
• Bony series. The last novel in the series was published in 1966.
• Bored of the Rings
• The Botticelli Horror
• Bret King Mysteries
• Bridge in the Menagerie
• The Bronze Bow
• Bug Jack Barron
• The Butterfly Revolution
• Call for the Dead
• Cancer Ward
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• A Caribbean Mystery
• Catch-22
• Catseye
• Cat's Cradle
• The Cat Who... Series. This series of novels started in 1966.
• The Cay
• Change War series continued.
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Charlotte Sometimes
• Cherry Ames
• The Chosen
• Christy
• The Chronicles of Prydain
• Chirin no Suzu (Chirin's Bell known as Ringing Bell in the West): The story was written in 1969, but wouldn't get published until 1971 ^note  As part of Takashi Yanase's Twelve Pearls anthology book and receiving a standalone book in 1978.
• A Civil Contract
• Clifford the Big Red Dog. This series started in 1966.
• The Clocks
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Clone
• The Collector
• The Coming of the Robots
• A Confederate General From Big Sur
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Connoisseur's Science Fiction
• Contes de la rue Broca
• Corduroy
• The Cornelius Chronicles
• Cosmicomics
• Creatures of Light and Darkness
• The Cricket in Times Square
• The Crying of Lot 49
• The Cyberiad
• Damnation Alley
• The Dandelion Girl
• Dangerous Visions
• The Dark is Rising. Series started in 1965.
• Deathworld. Series started in 1960.
• The Deer and the Cauldron
• The Demon Breed
• The Demon Princes
• The Destroyer. The original novel was written in 1963, but was not published until 1971.
• Disquiet
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Dolphin Trilogy
• Doona
• Dororo by Masaki Tsuji
• Dorrie the Little Witch
• Dragonriders of Pern. The first story was published in 1967.
• Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
• Dune
• Dune Messiah
• Earthsea. First story in the series is from 1964.
• The Edge of Sadness
• The Egypt Game
• The Elric Saga. The series begins with a novella, published in June, 1961.
• Emily's Runaway Imagination
• Empire Star
• Encyclopedia Brown. The series started in 1963.
• Endless Night
• Escape Attempt
• Escape to Witch Mountain
• Everything Flows
• The Executioner. The series started in 1969.
• "Eyes Do More Than See"
• Farnham's Freehold
• Far Rainbow
• Federation of the Hub. Although the overall series started earlier, the main characters, Trigger Argee and Telzey Amberdon, were introduced in 1962 and 1964, respectively.
• Felse Investigates series continued through the decade.
• Fighting Men
• A Fine and Private Place
• The First Circle
• First Step Outward
• The Fixer
• Flashman series started in 1969.
• Flat Stanley
• Flowers for Algernon
• The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
• The Four Loves
• Force 10 from Navarone
• The Forgotten Door
• The Fox and the Hound
• Fox in Socks
• Franny and Zooey
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• The Gammage Cup
• The Ganymede Takeover
• The Gashlycrumb Tinies
• The Genocides
• Gerfaut War
• Ghost In the Noonday Sun
• The Giving Tree
• The Glass Bead Game
• Glory Road
• The Goblin Reservation (1968)
• The Godfather. The original novel was published in 1969.
• Gor. The series started in 1966.
• The Great Brain
• Green Eggs and Ham
• The Greenwich Trilogy
• Hainish series started in 1964.
• Hallowe'en Party
• Hard to Be a God
• Harriet the Spy
• "Harrison Bergeron"
• The Hearing Trumpet
• Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
• The High Crusade
• His Master's Voice
• The History of the Runestaff
• Hopscotch
• Hothouse
• House Made of Dawn
• The Howling Man
• I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• The Ice Palace
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
• In Cold Blood
• The Incredible Journey
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
• Inspector Imanishi Investigates
• The Invincible
• Island (1962)
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Jakob the Liar
• James and the Giant Peach
• James Bond
  • For Your Eyes Only
  • Thunderball
  • The Spy Who Loved Me
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • You Only Live Twice
  • The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Octopussy and The Living Daylights
  • Colonel Sun
• Jeeves in the Offing
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
• Jim Button
• John Putnam Thatcher. The series started in 1961.
• Journeys in Science Fiction
• The Keepers of the House
• The King of the Copper Mountains
• Knight's Fee
• Known Space. The series started in 1964.
• Lafayette O'Leary series started in 1965.
• The Land of Green Ginger (a revision of The Tale Of The Land Of Green Ginger)
• Last Exit to Brooklyn
• The Last Unicorn
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Letterland
• Lilac Sphere
• Little Big Man
• Little Fuzzy
• The Littles. The series started in 1967.
• Logan's Run
• The Looking Glass War
• Lord Darcy. The series started in 1964.
• Lord of Light
• The L-Shaped Room
• The Lucky Puppy
• Lymond Chronicles
• "The Machine That Won the War"
• The Mad Scientists Club
• The Magic Goes Away series started in 1969.
• The Magic Toyshop
• Make Room! Make Room!
• The Man from C.A.M.P.. The series started in 1966.
• The Man in the High Castle
• March of the Robots
• The Mark of the Horse Lord
• Martian Time-Slip
• MASH
• The Master and Margarita was first published in the '60s, though it was written between 1928 and 1940.
• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
• Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction
• Modesty Blaise
• Monday Begins on Saturday
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• Moscow - Petushki - distributed as samizdat in 1969.
• Mother Night
• The Mouse and His Child
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle
• The Moviegoer
• Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
• Mrs. Pollifax
• The Muddle-Headed Wombat. The first book of the series was published in 1962.
• "My Son, the Physicist"
• My Sweet Orange Tree
• Mystery of the Witches' Bridge
• "Nackles"
• Naked Came the Stranger
• Nick Velvet
• Nightfall and Other Stories
• Night of the Black Horror
• Noon: 22nd Century
• Nova
• O Ye Jigs & Juleps!
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• On Heroes and Tombs
• Onihei Hankachou
• Opus 100
• The Orchard Keeper
• "The Order of Melkizedek"
• The Origin of the Brunists
• Orphans of the Sky (1963)
• Our Mother's House
• Out of This World
• Outer Dark
• The Outsiders
• Pale Fire
• The Pale Horse
• Papillon
• Patience and Sarah
• The People. Two books in the series were published in 1961 and 1967.
• Perry Rhodan. The series started in 1961.
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Pigman
• Planet of Adventure. Series started in 1968.
• Planet of the Apes. The novel that started the franchise was first published in 1963.
• Podkayne of Mars
• The Population Bomb
• Portnoy's Complaint
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Possible Tomorrows
• The Pretenders
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Principia Discordia
• Prisoners of Power
• The Promise
• Puckoon
• The Pushcart War
• Quiller series started in 1965.
• Rabbit, Run
• Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era originally published in 1963.
• Ratman's Notebooks
• The Reivers
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
• The Rest of the Robots
• Retief. Series began in 1960.
• Return from the Stars
• Revolutionary Road
• The River Between
• The Robber Hotzenplotz
• Rodent Mutation
• "A Rose For Ecclesiastes" (novelette)
• Rosemary's Baby
• Safari
• "Sally"
• Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
• The Satan Bug
• Science Fiction Verhalen
• Season Of Migration To The North
• The Season to Be Wary
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria
• Secret Agents Four
• "Segregationist"
• Seven Days in May
• "She Fell Among Thieves (1964)"
• Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street (1962)
• The Ship Who... series began in 1969.
• Silent Ship, Silent Sea
• Silent Spring
• The Silly Book - Originally published in 1961.
• The Silver Crown - published in 1968
• Skylark Series. The last novel in the series was published in 1965.
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• A Small Town in Germany
• "Smith of Wootton Major"
• The Sneetches and Other Stories
• Solaris
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Sounder
• The Space Odyssey Series started in 1968.
• Spider Kiss
• The Squares of the City
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• The Stainless Steel Rat. Series started in 1961.
• Stand on Zanzibar
• The Starchild Trilogy
• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• The Stone Angel
• Strumpet City
• Sword at Sunset
• Tale of the Troika
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot
• The Technicolor Time Machine
• Terre en fuite
• A Theatrical Novel
• Third Girl
• This Immortal
• Three Hearts and Three Lions
• The Three Investigators series began in 1964.
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
• The Third Policeman. Published in 1967, though written in 1939/1940.
• The Tiger Who Came to Tea
• Time Cat
• "Time Lag"
• The Time of the Hero
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Trail of Cthulhu
• Travis McGee
• The Tripods
• The Troublemaker
• The Truce. Published in the USA under the title The Reawakening.
• Trustee from the Toolroom
• This Sunday
• True Grit
• Two-Minute Mysteries. The first book was published in 1967.
• Turkish Delight ("Turks Fruit"), first published in 1969.
• Ubik
• Up the Down Staircase
• Uncle. Series started in 1964.
• Untravelled Worlds
• V.
• Valley of the Dolls
• The Velvet Room
• The Venom Business
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Vicky the Viking
• Virus (1980)
• A Void
• Warlock of Gramarye. Series started in 1969.
• Way Station
• The Way to the Lantern
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• When Eight Bells Toll
• When Marnie Was There
• Where Eagles Dare
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Witches of Karres
• Witch World. The series started in 1963.
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
• The Wonderful School (1969)
• World of Tiers. The series started in 1965.
• The Worlds of Science Fiction (1963)
• A Wrinkle in Time
• "The Year Santa Went Modern". Narrative poem from 1963.
• The Young Warriors
• Yasashii Lion (The Kindly Lion or The Gentle Lion)

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