Most Popular Mainstream Books of the 1960s

Discover popular Mainstream books from the 1960s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut

Mainstream

1962

7.4/10 20 ratings

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine

Kurt Vonnegut

Science Fiction · Mainstream

1965

7.1/10 17 ratings

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

Gabriel García Márquez

Short Stories · Translation · Mainstream

1961

10.0/10 1 ratings

Janine is French

Lloyd Alexander

Mainstream

1960

10.0/10 1 ratings

Our Ancestors

Our Ancestors

Italo Calvino

Fantasy · Collection · Translation · Mainstream

1962

9.0/10 1 ratings

Welcome to the Monkey House

Kurt Vonnegut

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Mainstream

1968

8.0/10 2 ratings

The Vintage Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Mainstream

1965

8.0/10 1 ratings

Our Ancestors

The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount

Italo Calvino

Fantasy · Collection · Translation · Mainstream

1962

7.7/10 16 ratings

Rogue Sword

Poul Anderson

Historical Fiction · Mainstream

1960

6.0/10 1 ratings

Dolphin Island

Arthur C. Clarke

Mainstream

1963

4.7/10 3 ratings

Snow White

Donald Barthelme

Fantasy · Mainstream

1967

2.0/10 1 ratings

Visitants

Randolph Stow

Science Fiction · Mainstream

1969

The Golden Wind

L. Sprague de Camp

Historical Fiction · Mainstream

1969

Black Is the Color

John Brunner

Mainstream

1969

A Plague on Both Your Causes

John Brunner

Mainstream

1969

The Wonderland Quartet #2

Expensive People

Joyce Carol Oates

Horror · Gothic Horror · Mainstream

1968

The Addison Tradition

John Morressy

Mainstream

1968

1968

Joe Haldeman

Mainstream

1968

The Touch

Daniel Keyes

Mainstream

1968

The Sea Serpent

Jules Verne

Translation · Mainstream

1967

I Am a Barbarian

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Mainstream

1967

7.0/10 1 ratings

Souvenir of Monique

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Mainstream

1967

The Woman Without a Name

Laurence M. Janifer

Mainstream

1966

The Blackboard Cavalier

John Morressy

Mainstream

1966

The Old Man of Mow

Alan Garner

Childrens · Mainstream

1966

The Arrows of Hercules

L. Sprague de Camp

Historical Fiction · Mainstream

1965

World of Adventure Series

The Lost Uranium Mine

Henry A. Bamman, Robert Whitehead

Young Adult · Mainstream

1964

World of Adventure Series

City Beneath the Sea

Henry A. Bamman, Robert Whitehead

Science Fiction · Young Adult · Mainstream

1964

The Late Breakfasters

Robert Aickman

Fantasy · Mainstream

1964

The Village in the Treetops

Jules Verne

Science Fiction · Translation · Mainstream

1964

The Crutch of Memory

John Brunner

Mainstream

1964

Dead Fingers Talk

William S. Burroughs

Science Fiction · Mainstream

1963

Fifty Years in the Doghouse

Lloyd Alexander

Mainstream

1963

Theseus #2

The Bull from the Sea

Mary Renault

Greek Mythology · Minotaur · Mythology · Historical Fiction · Mainstream

1962

8.0/10 1 ratings

The Cupboard Under the Stairs

George Turner

Mainstream

1962

The Old China Hands

Charles G. Finney

Mainstream

1961