Australia's Baby Boomer Generation

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Literature of the Baby Boomer Years

1940s

1949 in literature - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
1948 in literature - Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
1947 in literature - The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill

1950s

1959 in literature - In the Labyrinth - Alain Robbe-Grillet; The Tin Drum - G¸nter Grass; Billiards at Half-past Nine - Heinrich Boll
1958 in literature - The Grass - Claude Simon; The Guide - R. K. Narayan
1957 in literature - On the Road - Jack Kerouac; Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov; Voss - Patrick White
1956 in literature - The Visit - Friedrich D¸rrenmatt
1955 in literature - Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein; Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov; The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
1954 in literature - Lord of the Flies - William Golding; The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien; The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
1953 in literature - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel; The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
1952 in literature - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett; Charlotte's Web - E.B. White; The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger; Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
1950 in literature - The Bald Soprano - Eugnne Ionesco; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

1960s

1969 in literature - Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth; Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut; Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
1968 in literature - Airport - Arthur Hailey; Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
1967 in literature - Wild Season - Allan W. Eckert; Cien aoos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) - Gabriel Garcaa M·rquez; Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited - Vladimir Nabokov
1966 in literature - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov; The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon; Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys; In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
1965 in literature - Herzog - Saul Bellow; An American Dream - Norman Mailer; The Magus - John Fowles
1964 in literature - Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
1963 in literature - Planet of the Apes (La Planete des Singes) - Pierre Boulle; V - Thomas Pynchon; The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath; Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
1962 in literature - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey; Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing; Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
1961 in literature - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller; A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
1960 in literature - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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1980s

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