- Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
- The Great Mortality (John Kelly)
- The Milagro Beanfield War (John Nichols)
The first two are 60's/70's books; a good representation of those years. I read them both in the early to mid-70's. The first, Go Ask Alice, was really profound for me. I was in junior high and very naive at the time. My daughter recently read the book, and I was gratified to find out she enjoyed the book too. I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull when I was 12. I remember reading it at a party my parents went to (and took us kids along) and listening to the soundtrack of Hair, the Rolling Stones and a few other big names that date me. It was fairly philosophical and metaphorical.