Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1959

I've only read "Naked Lunch", "Starship Troopers", and "A Separate Peace", the last most recently. Would vote "A Separate Peace".

Naked Lunch, for expanding my then-limited understanding of what a novel can do at the age of 20.

Naked Lunch is my vote and the only one I've read, though I've seen film adaptations of six others on the list.

The Haunting of Hill House is very good and I think I liked Walkabout a lot as well, though I can't really remember it. I feel unqualified to vote though as I haven't read Life and Fate despite (because of?) lots of evangelizing about it from my family.

Naked Lunch is my vote and the only one I've read, though I've seen film adaptations of six others on the list.

― Halfway there but for you

It's another Naked Lunch vote from me, but I think I've seen film adaptations of a whole ten of these!

Yeah, I felt like the wiki US literature lists were already turning into movie development farms by the 1940's and can only see this tendency growing.

lots of good films!

Oh, this one is really tough

Naked Lunch, for expanding my then-limited understanding of what a novel can do at the age of 20.

A good reason, I read it around the same time. Tried to reread it about 20 years later but wasn't really in the mood, not to denigrate it at all ("it's not you it's me").

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Zazie In The Metro by Raymond Queneau
Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

And about 2/3rds of:
Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman

I'll go for Life and Fate, as a reminder that I should read it.

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1960

Belated write-in vote for The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff, one of my favorite books.