The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe | 
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe | 
Lives of the Noble Romans
by Plutarch | 
Alfred the Great
by Asser | 
The Twelve Caesars
by Michael Grant | 
The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, VA
by Nat Turner | 
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank | 
Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck | 
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer | 
The Double Helix
by James D. Watson | 
The Gallic War
by Julius Caesar | 
A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain | 
Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston | 
The Travels
by Marco Polo | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers | 
Crazy Horse and Custer
by Stephen E. Ambrose | 
There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz | 
The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir |
Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.