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The 1960s

Not every book published in the 1960s: the 50 that were shortlisted for, or won, Best Novel at the Retro Hugo Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award or British Science Fiction Award.

By year of publication

  • Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
  • The Man in the High Castle — Philip K. Dick (1962)
  • Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1963)
  • Dune World — Frank Herbert (1963)
  • Glory Road — Robert A. Heinlein (1963)
  • Way Station — Clifford D. Simak (1963)
  • Witch World — Andre Norton (1963)
  • Davy — Edgar Pangborn (1964)
  • Earth's Last Citadel — C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner (1964)
  • Nova Express — William S. Burroughs (1964)
  • Open Prison — James White (1964)
  • The Planet Buyer — Cordwainer Smith (1964)
  • The Reign of Wizardry — Jack Williamson (1964)
  • The Wanderer — Fritz Leiber (1964)
  • The Whole Man — John Brunner (1964)
  • A Plague of Demons — Keith Laumer (1965)
  • All Flesh Is Grass — Clifford D. Simak (1965)
  • Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb — Philip K. Dick (1965)
  • Dune — Frank Herbert (1965)
  • Rogue Dragon — Avram Davidson (1965)
  • The Clone — Kate Wilhelm, Theodore L. Thomas (1965)
  • The Genocides — Thomas M. Disch (1965)
  • The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream — G. C. Edmondson (1965)
  • The Star Fox — Poul Anderson (1965)
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch — Philip K. Dick (1965)
  • Babel-17 — Samuel R. Delany (1966)
  • Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes (1966)
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
  • The Winged Man — A. E. van Vogt, E. Mayne Hull (1966)
  • This Immortal — Roger Zelazny (1966)
  • Chthon — Piers Anthony (1967)
  • Lord of Light — Roger Zelazny (1967)
  • The Einstein Intersection — Samuel R. Delany (1967)
  • The Eskimo Invasion — Hayden Howard (1967)
  • Thorns — Robert Silverberg (1967)
  • Black Easter — James Blish (1968)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick (1968)
  • Past Master — R. A. Lafferty (1968)
  • Picnic on Paradise — Joanna Russ (1968)
  • Rite of Passage — Alexei Panshin (1968)
  • Stand on Zanzibar — John Brunner (1968)
  • The Masks of Time — Robert Silverberg (1968)
  • Bug Jack Barron — Norman Spinrad (1969)
  • Fourth Mansions — R. A. Lafferty (1969)
  • Isle of the Dead — Roger Zelazny (1969)
  • Macroscope — Piers Anthony (1969)
  • Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1969)
  • The Jagged Orbit — John Brunner (1969)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
  • Up the Line — Robert Silverberg (1969)