One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 · 417 pages
Seven generations of one family in Macondo, where insomnia comes as a plague and the rain lasts four years. García Márquez reports the impossible as plain fact.
★ 9.5
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The Master and Margarita
1967 · 411 pages
The devil arrives in Stalin's Moscow with a retinue that includes an enormous talking cat, and the literary bureaucrats never recover. Threaded through it runs a stark short novel about Pontius Pilate.
★ 8.7
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
1967 · 432 pages
Colonists rebelled because they believed London was conspiring to destroy their liberty. Reading hundreds of pamphlets, Bailyn showed that ideas made the Revolution. A generation of historians rewrote the founding on his terms.
★ 6.7
The Society of the Spectacle
1967 · 132 pages
Lived experience has been replaced by images of itself: in 221 numbered theses Debord argues capitalism now sells the appearance of living. Spectacle became the word critics of media reach for.
★ 6.5
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
1967 · 717 pages
Hughes wrote the blues into American poetry, plain-spoken and syncopated. He asked what happens to a dream deferred, and the playwright Lorraine Hansberry built A Raisin in the Sun from his answer.
★ 6.3
The Early Church
1967 · 320 pages
Six centuries in which a persecuted Jewish sect became the Roman state's religion. Chadwick tracks the arguments that decided what Christians believe, from Gnostic rivals through Nicaea to Gregory the Great.
★ 6.2
Complete Stories
1967 · 447 pages
A woman bargains with God to make the telephone ring, and Parker's comedy runs on exactly that much desperation. Her Manhattan drinkers and discarded women are hilarious until suddenly they are not.
★ 5.5
The Medium is the Massage
1967 · 159 pages
Working with the designer Quentin Fiore, McLuhan turned media theory into a paperback collage of aphorisms and pages printed backwards. Every technology remakes your senses before you notice what it carries.
★ 5.3
The Chosen
1967 · 271 pages
Two Brooklyn boys meet when one's line drive shatters the other's glasses at a yeshiva ball game. Danny, raised in silence to inherit a Hasidic dynasty, is secretly reading Freud in German.
★ 5.2
Tally's Corner
A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men
1967 · 179 pages
Twelve months on a Washington corner with Black men without steady work. They fail as husbands and fathers, Liebow shows, not from any inherited culture but because the jobs cannot support a family.
★ 5.2
Down These Mean Streets
1967 · 340 pages
Dark-skinned and Puerto Rican in 1940s Spanish Harlem, Thomas was Black to white America and not Black to his own family. Gangs, heroin, and seven years in prison follow, told in barrio speech.
★ 5.1
The Outsiders
1967 · 160 pages
Greasers and Socs settle their hatred with fists and knives in Tulsa, narrated by fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis. Hinton wrote it at sixteen, and it is still the novel American schools hand to thirteen-year-olds.
★ 5.0
Oranges
1967 · 149 pages
Curious why the juice from a Penn Station machine changed color through the winter, McPhee went to Florida. He came back with citrus botany, grove barons, and the entire industry of frozen concentrate.
★ 4.7