books set in the 50's - 60's

[Zee.]

My friend and i are undergoing a sort of.. book club thing with just the two of us, and i need suggestions for our first book.


American literature - set in the 50's/60's



Suggestions would be great.

[Ms Angelone]

the bell jar by sylvia plath
rabbit run by john updike
portnoy's complaint
invisible man by ralph ellison

[Amoxcalli]

Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

Great novel to boot.

[Dinkleberry2010]

From Here to Eternity - James Jones
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

[Scheherazade]

From Here to Eternity - James Jones
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt VonnegutAren't some of these books set in 1930s or in 1940s (WWII)?

[sixsmith]

Herzog - Saul Bellow
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
The Deer Park - Norman Mailer
An American Dream - Norman Mailer
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
V - Thomas Pynchon
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Letting Go - Philip Roth

[Modest Proposal]

Herzog - Saul Bellow
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
The Deer Park - Norman Mailer
An American Dream - Norman Mailer
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
V - Thomas Pynchon
A Confederacy Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Letting Go - Philip Roth

Wow, rather than recommend my own three I will just reiterate the three of these that I was going to say. The Moviegoer, Seize the Day and Herzog.