 | The Other Side of Haight: A Novel by James Fadiman
Buy used from: $6.20 Both the characters and the setting of Fadiman's story ring absolutely true (as they should, for the man was there).
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 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: $2.00 Wolfe ingeniously utilized Ken Kesey's own form of stream of consciousness to tell the Merry Pranksters tale, in a style much like a post-modern novel (not a novel per se, but it reads like one).
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 | The Psychedelic Symphony: An Historical Novel 1968 by James Marinovich
Buy used from: $28.94 Marinovich depicts the effects of the counter culture upon one mythical everyday-America town in the summer of 1968. Cultural details are accurate without ever resorting to cliche or stereotype.
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 | Burnt Toast: A novel by Peter L Gould
Buy used from: $5.99 A beautifully written vision-quest by a member of the legendary Total Loss Farm community.
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 | Butterfly Kid by Chester anderson
Buy used from: $29.98 Anderson's sci fi yarn, published in 1967, takes place in a thoroughly psychedelic Greenwich Village.
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 | Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.00 Though published in early 70s, Robbins' characters are delightful embodiments of Sixties counter-cultural sensibilities (as is his playful prose style).
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| Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin
Buy used from: $4.00 Exquisite re-creation of England counter-culture in the summer of '67. Crowley, hippies, acid, Satanism, with Procol Harum for a soundtrack.
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 | Barefoot in the Head by Brian Wilson Aldiss
Buy used from: $6.25 From 1969, a sci-fi tale of the world psychedelicized. Like William Craddock's Be Not Content, a lovely example of acid prose.
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 | Summer of Love by Lisa Mason
Buy used from: $0.58 A science fiction novel in which a 25th Century time-traveler enters the Haight Ashbury community of 1967. No real revelations for the avid Sixties psychedelicist, but an amusing trifle all the same.
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