A mix of fiction and nonfiction set in/about the 1960s. Includes books from the decade too.
created by terriblangel
last updated June, 2026
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
Dennis McNally
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
Clara Bingham
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Suze Rotolo
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
Jon Savage
This Cursed House
Del Sandeen
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Catâs Cradle
Rosemaryâs Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
Ira Levin
Slaughterhouse-Five
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
David Talbot
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
Dianne Lake
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
How the GarcĂa Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies
Doll-baby
Laura Lane McNeal
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein
Kissing the Sky: A Novel
Lisa Patton
Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Jeffrey Melnick
Here's to My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980
George Case
Hilda Hurricane: A Novel
Roberto Drummond
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 (Dear America)
Ellen Emerson White
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