1953


Fahrenheit 451
Childhood’s End
The Crucible
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
Junky
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
Nine Stories
The Go-Between
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
The Demolished Man
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
The Night of the Hunter
A Kiss Before Dying
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Silver Chair by C.S. LewisThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerCasino Royale by Ian Fleming
Best Books 1953
138 books — 55 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLord of the Flies by William GoldingCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Best Books of the Decade: 1950s
1,181 books — 1,508 voters
Fifteen by Beverly ClearyThe Luckiest Girl by Beverly ClearyJean and Johnny by Beverly ClearySister of the Bride by Beverly ClearyThe Boy Next Door by Betty Cavanna
Teen Romance of the 1950s
100 books — 27 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Best Fantasy of the 50s
63 books — 126 voters

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It should be said that all these years, in all the Special Camps, orthodox Soviet citizens, without even consulting each other, unanimously condemned the massacre of the stoolies, or any attempt by prisoners to fight for their rights. We need not put this down to sordid motives (though quite a few of the orthodox were compromised by their work for the godfather) since we can fully explain it by their theoretical views. They accepted all forms of repression and extermination, even wholesale, prov ...more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII

Christina Engela
The famous split window Splits had the KDF dash until 1953, which had two glove compartments. Note rear “w” bonnet and small round taillights. There were no indicators like today’s cars – just pop-up indicators that work with an electric servo, called ‘trafficators’ or ‘semaphores’. 6v electrics. Small, flat front windscreen.
Christina Engela, Bugspray

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