1960s

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garca Mrquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buenda family, whose patriarch, Jos Arcadio Buenda, founded the town of Macondo

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth’s life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct

The Andromeda Strain

1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall

In Cold Blood

Non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas