What We Were Reading in 1962
Annotation:Initially controversial, this influential study of the effect of pesticides persuaded many Americans that our environment needed protection.
Annotation:Over 20 years in the making, this much anticipated allegorical novel about the rise of the Nazis was the single best selling novel of 1962.
Annotation:Does a woman need a man, and does she need to keep him? This forthright guide shifted the sexual playing field, and later inspired such series as Sex and the City and Mad Men.
Annotation:Lessing's landmark feminist novel searches for the authentic woman amidst her conflicting selves.
Annotation:It may have seemed like a foreign country at the time, but this novel brought marginalized passions - gay, straight and interracial - into Middle America's living room.
Annotation:The only Bond adventure with a female narrator, and largely disliked by critics & fans. Sean Connery arrived onscreen the next year, and the franchise held strong.
Annotation:The first of 24 thrillers featuring tough-as-nails criminal Parker (the last was published in 2008), later made into three different films.
Annotation:Beat bard Burroughs did more than push the envelope with this trilogy of "cut up" novels: he put the envelope in a blender.
Annotation:Is this masterpiece of neurosis the funniest book ever written? It just might be.
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1962: Seattle hosts the World's Fair, America's mind is on a bold new future, our eyes are on the Russians, and the Space Needle goes round and round. This is one of four lists looking at what books we were reading, what music we were listening to, and what movies and TV we were watching at that time.
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