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| 1968 |
| | Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character | |
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| 1969 |
| | US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations | |
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| 1969 |
| | Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five | |
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| 1969 |
| | Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman | |
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| 1970 |
| | US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| 1970 |
| | Australian author David Malouf is first published as a poet, with his collection Bicycle and Other Poems | |
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| 1971 |
| | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
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| 1973 |
| | Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London | |
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| 1973 |
| | US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels | |
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| 1973 |
| | US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying | |
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