HIT-->60s novels

[Sarah Peckham <speckham@CREIGHTON.EDU>]

I received interesting suggestions for my query about novels
set in the 60's and 70's.  Originally, I had planned to read the
books, so I would know what I had included in my bibliography.
But.. there were many titles I was not familiar with and others
I had read 25 years ago, so I think I will pose the list in a way
that students find the
books, read them, evaluate if they realistically portray the
times as we reflect on the period historically and suggest if the book
should be part of the library collection.

[There is a great list of fiction and nonfiction books on the
60s in Booklist, September 1, 1987, pages 55 to 57.]


Sarah Peckham, Marian High School, Omaha NE
Speckham@Unomaha.edu


Airman Mortensen by Michael Blake
And One For All by Theresa Nelson
Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
Back To The Land by Raymond Mungo
Been Down So Long it Feels Like Up by Richard Farina
Best of Friends by Margaret Rostowski
Blessings by Belva Plain
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Buffalo Afternoon by Schaeffer
Caribou by Meg Wolitzer
Crossing Blood by Nanci Kincaid
David and Jonathan by Cynthia Voight
The Day That Elvis Came to Town by Jan Marino
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Everybody's Daughter by Marsha Qualey
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (includes profanity, but
        great book about Vietnam.)
Forever by Judy Bloom
Freedom Songs by Yvette Moore
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Hill 568 by Zack Emerson
Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis
Long Time Passing by Adrienne Jones
Manchild and the Promised Land by Brown
The Memorial: A novel of the Vietnam War by James Amos
Not the End of the World by Rebecca Stowe
Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen
On the Road by Tom Wolfe
Phanton Leader by Mark Benrent
Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Queen of October by Shelley Fraser Mickle
Representing Superdoll by Richard Peck
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Runner by Cynthia Voight
The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong
Strawberry Statement by Jim Kunen
Shadow Witch by Ruth Riddell
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Three Sisters by Norma Mazer
Travels by Larry Bogard
Tunes for a Small Harmonica by Barbara Weisba