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Librarian: Christine Kickels
Office: SRC 3050
Phone: (630) 942-2313
E-mail: kickels@cod.edu
Important authors
The library’s general collection contains many of the most important literary works of the ‘60s that you can check out. Here are some authors and samples of their books:
- James Baldwin
- •Go tell it on the mountain. PS3552.A45 G62 1985
- •Going to meet the man. PS 3552 .A45 G6
- Amiri Baraka
- •Four Black revolutionary plays, all praises to the Black man [by] LeRoi Jones. PS 3552 .A583 F6
- •Transbluesency: The Selected Poems Of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995). PS3552.A583 A8 1995
- Richard Brautigan
- •A Confederate General From Big Sur. PS 3503 .R2736 C6
- •Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America ; The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar. PS3503.R2736 A6 1989
- William S. Burroughs
- •Naked Lunch. PS3552.U75 C35 1995
- •The Wild Boys; A Book Of The Dead. PS 3552 .U75 W5
- Truman Capote
- •In Cold Blood: A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences. HHV6533.K3 C3 1992
- Rachel Carson
- •Silent Spring / Drawings By Lois And Louis Darling. QH 545 .P4 C38
- Carlos Castaneda
- •Journey To Ixtlan: The Lessons Of Don Juan / by Carlos Castaneda. E99.Y3 C28
- •The Teachings Of Don Juan; A Yaqui Way Of Knowledge. E99.Y3 C3 1968
- Eldridge Cleaver
- •Soul On Ice / With An Introd. By Maxwell Geismar. E 185.97 .C6
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- •The Secret Meaning Of Things. PS 3511 .E557 S4
- •These Are My Rivers. New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993. PS3511.E557 T48 1993
- Betty Friedan
- •The Feminine Mystique. HQ1420 .F7 2001
- Allan Ginsberg
- •The Fall Of America; Poems Of These States, 1965-1971. PS 3513 .I74 F3
- •Howl, And Other Poems . PS 3513 .I74 H6
- John Heller
- •Catch-22: A Novel. PS3558.E476 C3 1994
- Abbie Hoffman
- •Steal This Book. HX843.7.H64 A3 1996
- Jack Kerouac
- •Desolation Angels: A Novel. PS 3521 .E735 D48x 1965
- •On the Road. PS3521.E735 O5 2003
- Ken Kesey
- •One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. PS3561.E667 O533 1992
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- •A Testament Of Hope: The Essential Writings Of Martin Luther King, Jr. E 185.97 .K5 A25 1986
- •Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? : E 185.615 .K5
- Timothy Leary
- •The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead. BF207 .L4 1990
- Harper Lee
- •To Kill A Mockingbird. PS3562.E353 T6 1995
- Denise Levertov
- •The Sorrow Dance [Poems]. PS 3562 .E8876 S6
- •With Eyes At The Back Of Our Heads. PS 3562 .E8876 W5
- Norman Mailer
- •The Armies Of The Night; History As A Novel, The Novel As History. PS3525 .A4152 A8
- Thomas Pynchon
- •The Crying of Lot 49 – NOT HELD
- •Gravity’s Rainbow – NOT HELD
- •V., A Novel. PS3566.Y55 52 1963
- John Rechy
- •City of Night – NOT HELD
- Gary Snyder
- •Riprap, & Cold Mountain Poems. PS 3569 .N88 R5
- •Turtle Island. PS 3569 .N88 T8
- Kurt Vonnegut
- •Cat's Cradle. PS 3572 .O5 C3
- •Slaughterhouse-Five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death. PS3572.O5 S6 1991
- Tom Wolfe
- •The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. HV5825 .W56 1969
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