List of books and publications related to the hippie subculture

This is a list of books and publications related to the hippie subculture. It includes books written at the time about the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s, books that influenced the culture, and books published after its heyday that document or analyze the culture and period. The list includes both nonfiction and fictional works, with the fictional works including novels about the period. Each work is notable for its relation to the culture, in addition to any other notability it has.

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Period and pre-period works

Novels

• Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein, cult science fiction novel which described a variant on the free love philosophy
• Steppenwolf (novel) and Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, cult novels
• In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan, a writer associated with hippies and the San Francisco Renaissance
• Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins, cult novel from the period
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, an autobiographical novel by Richard Fariña about the early sixties and the transition from beatniks to hippies
• The Drifters by James Michener
• Divine Right's Trip: A Novel of the Counterculture, by Gurney Norman, describing a Volkswagen bus road trip
• Memoirs of a Beatnik, by Diane di Prima, novelistic pseudo-memoir by a Beat poet
• On the Road, a novel by Jack Kerouac which influenced both the Beat Generation and Hippie culture
• Walden, a memoir by Henry David Thoreau detailing his social experiment associated with natural living and simple lifestyle
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll which involves abandonment of logic and is an example of literary nonsense. Popularized by the 1967 Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit"
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel), a 1962 novel about individualism in a mental hospital written by Ken Kesey, who was associated with both beatniks and hippies, including the Merry Pranksters

Poetry

• Stanyan Street and other Sorrows: Poems, by Rod McKuen, with Stanyan Street referring to the street in San Francisco which borders on Haight-Ashbury, a hippie cultural center
• Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg
• the "Desiderata", a poem by Max Ehrmann
• Scripture of the Golden Eternity, by Jack Kerouac
• The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
• The Love Book, by Lenore Kandel

Nonfiction

• Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion, by Mickey Hart
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass, about his contacts with Bhagavan Das, Neem Karoli Baba, and Baba Hari Dass. The book has an extensive bibliography of works important to spiritual seekers of the time
• The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a syncretic work combining a Tibetan Buddhist holy book with the psychedelic experience, by Timothy Leary
• The Making of a Counter Culture, by Theodore Roszak
• The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley on the psychedelic experience, the origin of the name for the band The Doors
• Go Ask Alice, anonymous (at the time) account of a teenage girl's descent into drug use. Later learned to be authored by Beatrice Sparks
• The Book - On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, by Alan Watts, ISBN 0-679-72300-5
• Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, by Fritz Perls, ISBN 0-911226-02-8
• The Greening of America, by Charles A. Reich
• Woodstock Nation, by yippie Abbie Hoffman, describing his experience at the Woodstock festival
• Monday Night Class, by Stephen Gaskin, founder of The Farm
• Hippie, a memoir by counterculture figure and businessman Barry Miles
• Teaching as a Subversive Activity, by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
• The Function of the Orgasm, by Wilhelm Reich, creator of the orgone hypothesis
• A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda, cult account of a likely fictitious encounter with a Native American shaman
• Morning of the Magicians, by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, about magic, occult, and the supernatural
• The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen
• The Velvet Monkey Wrench, by John Muir, car maintenance guru of the 1960s
• Cutting through Spiritual Materialism, by Chogyam Trungpa, 1973
• The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm, 1956
• We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco by Nicholas Von Hoffman, 1968
• The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan, 1967
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth and I Seem to Be a Verb, by Buckminster Fuller
• The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1959
• The Yellow Book: The Sayings of Baba Hari Dass
• Silence Speaks: From the Chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass
• The Hog Farm Family & Friends, Wavy Gravy, 1974
• Teach Your Own, John Holt, ASIN: B00A8SIKBA

Guides

• Rise Up Singing a book of songs relevant to the culture
• New Age Vegetarian Cookbook, by Max Heindel
• Tassajara cooking, by Edward Espe Brown, ISBN 0-87773-047-4
• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by David Werner, 1970
• Whole Earth Catalog, edited and published by Stewart Brand
• Living on the Earth, by Alicia Bay Laurel
• Foxfire Books series, from the magazine of the same name, popular with the 1970s back-to-the-land movement
• Do It!, by Jerry Rubin
• Steal this book, by yippie Abbie Hoffman, a guide to living with little or no money, and to living outside the rules of establishment culture
• Our Bodies, Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1973
• Total Orgasm, by Jack Rosenberg, ISBN 0-7045-0071-X
• The Open Classroom, by Herbert Kohl
• est: The Steersman Handbook, by Leslie Stevens
• How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, by John Muir
• Ashtanga Yoga Primer, Baba Hari Dass, ISBN 0-918100-04-6

Photography

• Festival:The Book of American Celebrations, by Jerry Hopkins with Jim Marshall and Baron Wolman, 1970
• Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era, by Linda McCartney, 1992
• Bliss: Transformational Festivals & the Neo Hippie by Steve Schapiro

Post-period works

Novels and children's literature

• Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon, novel of the changes from 1960s to 1980s counterculture in Northern California
• Summer of Love, by Lisa Mason, novel about the period
• Baby Driver, a semi-autobiographical novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack Kerouac
• My Hippie Grandmother, a children's picture book by Reeve Lindbergh and Abby Carter, 2003

Nonfiction

• Chrisann Brennan: The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
• Chelsea Cain:Dharma Girl (a memoir of growing up on a commune)
• Peter CoyoteSleeping Where I Fall (memoir)
• John Curl: Memories of Drop City: The First Hippie Commune of the 1960s and the Summer of Love
• Mickey Hart:The Art of the Filmore 1966–1971
• Albert Hofmann:LSD, My Problem Child
• Barney Hoskyns: Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965–1970
• Rory MacLean:Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
• Timothy Miller: The Hippies and American Values
• Cleo Odzer: Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India
• Fred Turner: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

Magazines

• Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly, edited and published by Stewart Brand
• San Francisco Oracle, an underground newspaper
• International Times, a magazine of the sixties UK underground
• Oz, a magazine of the sixties UK underground
• The Buddhist Third Class Junk Mail Oracle, by D.A. Levy, a Cleveland underground newspaper[1]
• The Realist, edited by Paul Krassner
• Mother Earth News
• Communities
• Utne Reader, a magazine postdating the hippie period, but covering much of the same material
• Sing Out!
• Nambassa Festival Newsletter 1, edited by Peter Terry, Lorraine Ward and Bernard Woods. Published in 1976 and 1977
• The Nambassa Sun and the Nambassa Waves newspapers, published quarterly from 1978 to 1981.[2]

Underground comix

• Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, underground comix featuring archetypal hippies
• Zap Comix, one of the first underground comix from San Francisco
• Slow Death, published by Last Gasp

Spanish-language books

• La Tumba, by José Agustín, 1964 novel about a Mexico City upper class teenager, followed by De Perfil, 1966

See also

• List of films related to the hippie subculture
• Psychedelic literature, list of works
• Underground press
• Straight Arrow Press
• Ronin Publishing
• Bookpeople
• La Onda, a Mexican 1960s counterculture movement

References

2. Archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library