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The Godfather
1969 novel by Mario Puzo
Slaughterhouse-Five
'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli
The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ubik
Ubik ( ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette "What the Dead Men Say".
Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, the second in his Dune series of six novels. A sequel to Dune (1965), it was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1969, and then published by Putnam the same year.
The Andromeda Strain
1969 novel by Michael Crichton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Portnoy's Complaint
novel by Philip Roth
Damnation Alley
science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny
The Man in the Maze
novel by Robert Silverberg
Galactic Pot-Healer
1969 novel by Philip K. Dick
The Ship Who Sang
science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey
Bored of the Rings
parody of The Lord of the Rings, 1969 Harvard Lampoon
Naked Came the Stranger
1969 novel
The Poseidon Adventure
novel by Paul Gallico
Bug Jack Barron
novel by Norman Spinrad
Up the Line
novel by Robert Silverberg
Creatures of Light and Darkness
1969 novel by Roger Zelazny
Isle of the Dead
science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny
Rich Man, Poor Man
novel by Irwin Shaw
Across A Billion Years
novel by Robert Silverberg
Captive Universe
1969 novel by Harry Harrison
The Black Corridor
1969 novel by Michael Moorcock