The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,600 ratings
2.
Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam
Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam 4.53 avg rating — 206 ratings
3.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,158 ratings
4.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,394 ratings
5.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,475 ratings
6.
The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums 3.93 avg rating — 99,781 ratings
7.
Clover Blue
Clover Blue 4.12 avg rating — 1,917 ratings
8.
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
1968: The Year that Rocked the World 3.82 avg rating — 3,294 ratings
9.
Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,106 ratings
10.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,894 ratings
10.
Chronicles, Volume One
Chronicles, Volume One
by: Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,438 ratings
12.
Another Roadside Attraction
Another Roadside Attraction 3.99 avg rating — 35,353 ratings
13.
A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind 4.16 avg rating — 12,186 ratings
14.
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina 3.91 avg rating — 3,609 ratings
15.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,568 ratings
16.
Steal This Book
Steal This Book 3.61 avg rating — 3,983 ratings
17.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me 3.78 avg rating — 3,630 ratings
18.
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary 3.72 avg rating — 567 ratings
19.
Hell's Angels
Hell's Angels 3.98 avg rating — 53,560 ratings
20.
Looking for Jack Kerouac
Looking for Jack Kerouac 3.85 avg rating — 167 ratings
21.
Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam
Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam 4.53 avg rating — 206 ratings
22.
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey 3.80 avg rating — 44,095 ratings
23.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,787 ratings
24.
Robert Kennedy and His Times
Robert Kennedy and His Times 4.27 avg rating — 2,438 ratings
25.
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition 3.85 avg rating — 434 ratings
26.
Post Office
Post Office 3.93 avg rating — 135,711 ratings
27.
Big Sur
Big Sur 3.84 avg rating — 37,134 ratings
28.
No One Here Gets Out Alive
No One Here Gets Out Alive 3.94 avg rating — 45,764 ratings
29.
The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles Anthology 4.38 avg rating — 17,683 ratings
30.
Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest
Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest 4.27 avg rating — 199 ratings
31.
Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties
Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties 3.95 avg rating — 337 ratings
32.
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost 4.24 avg rating — 48,971 ratings
33.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.34 avg rating — 23,717 ratings
34.
In His Own Write
In His Own Write 4.01 avg rating — 5,850 ratings
35.
Daybreak
Daybreak
by: Joan Baez
3.89 avg rating — 318 ratings
36.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,723 ratings
37.
Memoirs of a Beatnik
Memoirs of a Beatnik 3.68 avg rating — 3,561 ratings
38.
Beauty is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising
Beauty is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising 4.54 avg rating — 54 ratings
39.
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America 3.92 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
40.
The Haight-Ashbury: A History
The Haight-Ashbury: A History 3.86 avg rating — 279 ratings
41.
1968
1968 3.95 avg rating — 77 ratings
42.
The Harrad Experiment
The Harrad Experiment 3.39 avg rating — 459 ratings
43.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman 4.02 avg rating — 21,115 ratings
43.
The Drifters
The Drifters 4.06 avg rating — 8,522 ratings
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There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture
There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture 3.69 avg rating — 200 ratings
46.
Absolute Beginners
Absolute Beginners 3.60 avg rating — 2,237 ratings
47.
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists 4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings
48.
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture 4.05 avg rating — 146 ratings
49.
Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture
Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
50.
Be Here Now
Be Here Now
by: Ram Dass
4.34 avg rating — 42,180 ratings
51.
A Spaniard in the Works
A Spaniard in the Works 3.83 avg rating — 1,551 ratings
52.
1968
1968 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
53.
Soul on Ice
Soul on Ice 3.97 avg rating — 14,658 ratings
54.
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (New York Review Books Classics)
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (New York Review Books Classics) 3.76 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
55.
Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof 4.05 avg rating — 268 ratings
56.
SDS
SDS 4.29 avg rating — 85 ratings
57.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,310 ratings
58.
MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1)
MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 9,908 ratings
59.
Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side 4.12 avg rating — 154 ratings
61.
Revolution for the Hell of It
Revolution for the Hell of It 3.87 avg rating — 542 ratings
61.
Best of the Realist: The 60s' Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine
Best of the Realist: The 60s' Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine 4.27 avg rating — 44 ratings
63.
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out 3.73 avg rating — 435 ratings
64.
Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama
Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
64.
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties 3.85 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
66.
Rudi Dutschke: Wir hatten ein barbarisches, schönes Leben
Rudi Dutschke: Wir hatten ein barbarisches, schönes Leben 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
67.
Paris '68 - Graffiti, posters, newspapers & poems of the events of May 1968
Paris '68 - Graffiti, posters, newspapers & poems of the events of May 1968 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
67.
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical 3.71 avg rating — 188 ratings
69.
Lyrics, 1962-2001
Lyrics, 1962-2001
by: Bob Dylan
4.60 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
70.
Love, Janis
Love, Janis 4.11 avg rating — 3,951 ratings
71.
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends 3.84 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
72.
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson 3.94 avg rating — 10,993 ratings
72.
LS65
LS65 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
74.
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America 3.66 avg rating — 186 ratings
75.
1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977 (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series)
1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977 (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series) 3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings
75.
Different Seasons
Different Seasons 4.36 avg rating — 216,978 ratings
77.
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK 4.12 avg rating — 213 ratings
78.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 4.01 avg rating — 42,319 ratings
78.
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties 4.04 avg rating — 32,213 ratings
80.
Vineland
Vineland 3.75 avg rating — 14,013 ratings
81.
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History 3.61 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
81.
Manson in His Own Words
Manson in His Own Words 3.93 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
81.
Myths and Texts
Myths and Texts 4.12 avg rating — 299 ratings
84.
Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F.
Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F. 4.11 avg rating — 1,931 ratings
85.
Cien sonetos de amor
Cien sonetos de amor 4.34 avg rating — 18,305 ratings
86.
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture 3.84 avg rating — 1,982 ratings
87.
Living on the Earth: Celebrations, Storm Warnings, Formulas, Recipes, Rumors, and Country Dances
Living on the Earth: Celebrations, Storm Warnings, Formulas, Recipes, Rumors, and Country Dances 4.43 avg rating — 225 ratings
87.
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
89.
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival 3.55 avg rating — 798 ratings
89.
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC 4.45 avg rating — 182 ratings
91.
Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors 3.99 avg rating — 7,026 ratings
92.
Kinflicks
Kinflicks 3.78 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
93.
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
The Other America: Poverty in the United States 4.06 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
93.
Mac Bird!
Mac Bird! 3.47 avg rating — 53 ratings
95.
Trout Fishing in America
Trout Fishing in America 3.76 avg rating — 16,321 ratings
96.
From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
96.
A Confederate General from Big Sur
A Confederate General from Big Sur 3.98 avg rating — 4,110 ratings
96.
Bless the Beasts and Children
Bless the Beasts and Children 3.63 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
99.
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 28,452 ratings
100.
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 4.13 avg rating — 157 ratings
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