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The Girls
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The Girls

By Emma Cline ,

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Crossroads
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Crossroads

By Jonathan Franzen ,

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By Tom Wolfe ,

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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
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Season of the Witch

By David Talbot ,

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Little Brother
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Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow ,

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The White Album
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The White Album

By Joan Didion ,

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Trout Fishing In America
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Trout Fishing In America

By Richard Brautigan ,

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Free Love
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Free Love

By Tessa Hadley ,

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The Eden Express
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The Eden Express

By Mark Vonnegut ,

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The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion
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The Family

By Ed Sanders ,

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Sister Stardust
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Sister Stardust

By Jane Green ,

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Bomb Island
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Bomb Island

By Stephen Hundley ,

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A Sunny Place for Shady People
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A Sunny Place for Shady People

By Mariana Enriquez , Megan McDowell (translator) ,

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture

By Fred Turner ,

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Strange Peaches
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Strange Peaches

By Edwin Shrake ,

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Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
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Rebels in White Gloves

By Miriam Horn ,

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The Saga of Hawkwind
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The Saga of Hawkwind

By Carol Clerk ,

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High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
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High Weirdness

By Erik Davis ,

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Leave Society
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Leave Society

By Tao Lin ,

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The Panopticon
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The Panopticon

By Jenni Fagan ,

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Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship
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Psychedelic Chile

By Patrick Barr-Melej ,

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Make It a Green Peace! The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism
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Make It a Green Peace! The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism

By Frank Zelko ,

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So Real It Hurts
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So Real It Hurts

By Lydia Lunch ,

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NDA: An Autofiction Anthology
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NDA

By Caitlin Forst ,

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Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
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Bad Girls

By Amanda H. Littauer ,

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No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
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No Simple Highway

By Peter Richardson ,

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An American Tune
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An American Tune

By Barbara Shoup ,

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No Rules: A Memoir
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No Rules

By Sharon Dukett ,

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Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
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Caravan of No Despair

By Mirabai Starr ,

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Relentless Melt
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Relentless Melt

By Jeremy Bushnell ,

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The Jesus Fast: The Call to Awaken the Nations
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The Jesus Fast

By Lou Engle , Dean Briggs ,

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Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
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Notes From Underground

By Stephen Duncombe ,

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The Game of Life
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The Game of Life

By Timothy Leary ,

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Trout Fishing in America
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Trout Fishing in America

By Richard Brautigan ,

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C+nto: & Othered Poems
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C+nto

By Joelle Taylor ,

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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
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The Conquest of Cool

By Thomas Frank ,

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Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's
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Imagine Nation

By Peter Braunstein (editor) , Michael William Doyle (editor) ,

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Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
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Smoking Typewriters

By John McMillian ,

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Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture
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Daughters of Aquarius

By Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo ,

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Flowers Through Concrete
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Flowers Through Concrete

By Juliane Fürst ,

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Lost and Found
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Lost and Found

By Margaret Hollenbach ,

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How Christians Can Succeed Today
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How Christians Can Succeed Today

By Greg Sheridan ,

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