What’s the Story? 60s Best Selling Books

Holiday time is over for me and schools are getting ready to receive their pupils so here’s a trip down Memory Lane for some of us who were children in the 60s. Certain books define their era and Good Reads have lists organised in decades if you want to connect with yours: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/18

Here is their top 10 from 100 for the 1960s.

1		To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.25 avg rating — 2,982,839 ratings score: 49,611, and 503 people voted
2		The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 616,802 ratings score: 19,359, and 199 people voted
3		One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 4.18 avg rating — 477,163 ratings score: 18,672, and 194 people voted
4		Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 4.04 avg rating — 810,622 ratings score: 18,290, and 190 people voted
5		Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) by Roald Dahl 4.10 avg rating — 470,371 ratings score: 16,939, and 176 people voted
6		Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 3.97 avg rating — 526,044 ratings score: 16,489, and 171 people voted
7		A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) by Madeleine L’Engle 4.04 avg rating — 581,262 ratings score: 16,485, and 171 people voted
8		Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss 4.29 avg rating — 443,303 ratings score: 15,089, and 158 people voted
9		In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.04 avg rating — 379,512 ratings score: 14,429, and 153 people voted
10		Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 4.22 avg rating — 575,115 ratings

My top 10 would look quite different – take a look and choose yours – and maybe even get some down from your shelves and  re-live the moment.