I don't know why but I love this era, its such a revolutionary time and produced so many amazing works. Some of my faves from this era below. I know this list is generic but I want to round out my reading of classics from this era!
A confederacy of dunces
The bell jar
Lucky jim
The wayward bus
In cold blood
A clockwork orange
by Tedge_
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Stoner by John Williams is good
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Suzanne
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Anything by Flannery O’Connor
You may have already read all these! Hoping there’s one in there-I’ve loved all these
Another Country by James Baldwin
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kurt Vonnegut
Just started The Godfather. Not far in but it’s great so far.
The Tin Men by Michael Frayn
Honeybuzzard by Angela Carter
Castle Dor by Daphne Du Maurier
The Corfu trilogy by Gerald Durrel
The evolution man by Roy Lewis
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
The mouse and his child by Russell Hoban
Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Halloween party by Agatha Christie
The once and future king by T White
The chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, by Peter Matthiessen
“The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” by Sloan Wilson (published in 1955).