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I worry that some books are now so old that no one knows about them. Are they outdated? I don’t think so and yet despite promising myself to do re-reads of old favorites, I get lured into new books and new series and the favorites I need to re-read stay on the shelf.
I just took a look at the top 100 best sellers at Barnes and Noble and decided to think about re-reads.
Wiki has lists of books and plays that came out in the 60’s. Tonight, I celebrate the 60’s and next week the 70’s and then the 80’s.
Books I knew about or read and many of which are on my shelves are listed below, but if you check the sites you will find many more of your own favorites from the 60’s. Be sure to mention them in posts below.
1960
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Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons
Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros
John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
Elie Wiesel – Night
1961
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J. L. Borges - Ficciones
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat
Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Leon Uris - Mila 18
1962
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William Barrett - Lilies of the Field
Ray Bradbury
R is for Rocket
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Len Deighton - The IPCRESS File
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Mary Renault - The Bull from the Sea
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Elie Wiesel - Day
Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
Louis Nizer - My Life in Court
John Steinbeck – Travels With Charley: In Search of America
Barbara Tuchman – The Guns of August
1963
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John le Carré - The Spy who Came in from the Cold
Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra
James A. Michener - Caravans
Emily Cheney Neville - It's Like This, Cat
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces
Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter from Birmingham Jail
1964
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Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ellery Queen - And On the Eighth Day
Maia Wojciechowska - Shadow of a Bull
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 (anthology)
Eric Berne - Games People Play
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Why We Can't Wait
1965
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Lloyd Alexander – The Black Cauldron
Graham Greene – The Comedians
Frank Herbert – Dune
Bel Kaufman – Up the Down Staircase
John le Carré – The Looking-Glass War
James A. Michener – The Source
1966
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Lloyd Alexander – The Castle of Llyr
Robert Crichton – The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
Bernard Malamud – The Fixer
1967
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Lloyd Alexander – Taran Wanderer
Margaret Craven – I Heard the Owl Call My Name
S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders
Catherine Marshall – Christy
Chaim Potok – The Chosen
Piri Thomas – Down These Mean Streets
Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
1968
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Lloyd Alexander – The High King
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward
The First Circle
1969
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John Fowles – The French Lieutenant's Woman
Chaim Potok – The Promise
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Note: Though The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien was published in the UK in the 50's, it became popular in the US in the 60's.
wiki says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
In the early 1960s Donald A. Wollheim, science fiction editor of the paperback publisher Ace Books, claimed that The Lord of the Rings was not protected in the United States under American copyright law because Houghton Mifflin, the U.S. hardcover publisher, had neglected to copyright the work in the United States. Ace Books then proceeded to publish an edition, unauthorized by Tolkien and without paying royalties to him. Tolkien took issue with this and quickly notified his fans of this objection. Grass-roots pressure from these fans became so great that Ace Books withdrew their edition and made a nominal payment to Tolkien. Authorized editions followed from Ballantine Books and Houghton Mifflin to tremendous commercial success. By the mid-1960s the novel had become a cultural phenomenon. Tolkien undertook various textual revisions to produce a version of the book that would be published with his consent and establish an unquestioned US copyright. This text became the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings, published in 1965.
Because of this, I am going to include it in the poll.
Books I want to re-read at the top of my list:
Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
All my Terry Pratchett books
All my sword books by Saberhagen
All my Guy Gavriel Kay books
All my David Brin uplift books so I can read his new one
What books are on your re-read list?
Diaries of the Week:
Write On! Rules were made to be broken
by SensibleShoes
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Thursday Classical Music OPUS 86: Brahms' Symphony #1 in C Minor (finale)
by Dumbo
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Sherlock Holmes in Space -- The Knower -- Chapter 1
by jabney
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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