1956


Giovanni’s Room
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
Howl and Other Poems
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Stars My Destination
The City and the Stars
Double Star
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
Night
Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
Old Yeller
The Minority Report
Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
364 books — 106 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


Erich Fromm
Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

Alfred Bester
Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with a combined and highly illegal service. The twenty-fourth century had not yet abolished God, but it had abolished organized religion. "No wonder the house is man-trapped," Foyle said. "Filthy practices like that. Look, they've got a priest and a rabbi, and that thing behind them is a crucifix." "Did you ever stop to think what swearing is?" Robin a ...more
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

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