The 1958 catalogue announced “ 4 important new Canadian books. The most successful (here in BC) was British Columbia: A Centennial Anthology. The second is Margaret Ormsby’s British Columbia, A History, $4.75, which is a large and readable account of this province through its first century. The third is Mackenzie King: A Political Biography, by R. MacGregor Dawson, $7.50, which is the long-awaited first volume of the official biography. And the fourth: A.R.M. Lower’s Canadians in the Making, $7.50, which is a long and wonderful social history of the Canadian people”.
In 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Rabbit Run by John Updike, William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Silitoe, and in Canada: The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser. Brian Moore won the Governor General’s Award for The Luck of Ginger Coffey.
In 1961: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Alan Morley chronicled Vancouver: From Milltown to Metropolis, and Malcolm Lowry won the Governor General’s Award for Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place.
In 1962 Marshall McLuhan won a Governor General’s Award for The Gutenberg Galaxy. George Woodcock published his Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. George Nicholson’s Vancouver Island’s West Coast, 1762-1962 was the year’s big B.C. history book and Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools topped the bestseller lists.
Hugh Garner won the 1963 Governor General’s Award for his Best Stories. Barbara Tuchman won a Pulitzer for The Guns of August. And it was an important year for books that were soon to be staples of the counterculture: J.D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
Early bookmark by Takao Tanabe
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