Fiction: The Decade's Most Notable Books

1. A Separate Peace, John Knowles, 1960

2. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961

3. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs, 1962

4. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges, 1962

5. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, 1962

6. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962

7. Cot's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1963

8. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1963

9. Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964 10. The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1968

NONFICTION

1. African Genesis, Robert Ardrey, 1961

2. The Children of Sánchez, Oscar Lewis, 1961

3. The Other America, Michael Harrington, 1963

4. Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan, 1964

5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965.

6.The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, 1965

7. Unsafe at Any Speed,...

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