This file contains books that the American Library Association Retired Members Round Table members read/recommended that were published the year of their high school graduation. Do you have any suggested books published when you graduated that are not on the list?
RMRT FIFTH SUNDAY BOOK DISCUSSION
Books Published the Year of Your Graduation
1959-1970
1959-1960
Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, The by Eleanor Roosevelt
Exodus by Leon Uris
Hawaii by James Michener
1962
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Cover Her Face by P. D. James
Golden Notebook, The by Doris Lessing
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Wrinkle in Time, A by Madeleine L'Engle
1963
Bell Jar, The by Sylvia Plath
Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
Collector, The by John Fowles
Planet of the Apes (La Planète des singes) by Pierre Boulle
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1964-1965
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Hotel by Arthur Hailey
Source, The by James A. Michener
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
1966
Curious George Goes to the Hospital by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
1969
Andromeda Strain, The by Michael Crichton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Left Hand of Darkness, The by Ursula K. Le Guin
Poseidon Adventure, The by Paul Gallico
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Tremor of Forgery, The by Patricia Highsmith
1970
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Love Story by Erich Segal
Mister Carnegie's lib'ary by Caroline E Werkley
Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza by Agatha Christie
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The by Eric Carle