To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 · 376 pages
Scout Finch's father, a lawyer in a small Alabama town, defends a Black man accused of raping a white woman. The trial reaches you through a child who understands less than you do.
★ 8.6
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Rabbit, Run
1960 · 325 pages
Harry Angstrom peaked at eighteen on a basketball court and now demonstrates kitchen gadgets. He leaves his pregnant wife and drives south. Updike gave the American suburb prose nobody thought it deserved.
★ 6.8
The Burden of Southern History
1960 · 304 pages
Americans tell themselves a story of innocence, abundance, and invincibility. The South knew defeat, poverty, and the guilt of slavery, and Woodward offers that history as the corrective a superpower needs.
★ 6.7
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960 · 1249 pages
Shirer broadcast from Berlin as the rallies filled, then worked through captured German files and Nuremberg testimony to tell the story from beer hall to bunker. A million American households bought it.
★ 6.5
Crowds and Power
1960 · 495 pages
Canetti anatomizes the crowd as a natural force, then locates power in the survivor who stands alive among the dead. Every command, he argues, leaves a sting in whoever obeys it.
★ 6.5
Promise at Dawn
1960 · 337 pages
Gary's mother told everyone in Vilna that her son would become a French diplomat, a war hero, and a great writer. He became all three, and the debt nearly crushed him.
★ 6.4
Butcher's Crossing
1960 · 274 pages
Full of Emerson, a Harvard student goes west and finances a buffalo hunt into a hidden Colorado valley. The killing lasts weeks, the winter shuts them in, and nature stops being a consolation.
★ 5.8
The Four Loves
1960 · 180 pages
To love at all is to be vulnerable, Lewis writes, then sorts the risk into affection, friendship, eros and charity. Each natural love turns demonic the moment it is made into a god.
★ 5.6
Green Eggs and Ham
1960 · 62 pages
Sam-I-Am will not stop offering: not in a box, not with a fox, not on a train, not in the rain. Fifty words is all Seuss used, and the badgering turns into song.
★ 5.2
The Conscience of a Conservative
1960 · 126 pages
I have little interest in streamlining government, Goldwater declares, for I mean to reduce its size. A hundred pages of refusal that dragged the Republican Party rightward and made Reagan's presidency thinkable.
★ 4.8