The White Album

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era - including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall - through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central example of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• Play It As It Lays
• Blue Nights
• The Year of Magical Thinking
• My Life on the Road
• Where I Was From
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
• The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
• M Train
• South and West: From a Notebook