1957


On the Road
Atlas Shrugged
Dandelion Wine
On the Beach
Doctor Zhivago
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Baron in the Trees
The Midwich Cuckoos
From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
Pnin
The Wapshot Chronicle
A Death in the Family (Vintage International)
Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
Angel
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
1,163 books — 1,518 voters
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor CoerrPenny from Heaven by Jennifer L. HolmThe Lions of Little Rock by Kristin LevineDanny the Champion of the World by Roald DahlWith the Might of Angels by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1950s
174 books — 37 voters

Christina Engela
Oval Window, 1953 - 1957 In 1953 came the first major changes in Beetle styling. Rear view was increasingly a problem and so the boys in Wolfsburg cut out the centre post and made the split into an oval. Some callous butchers are known to have manually cut the center post of the split rear window out either to improve rear visibility or to make their cars look newer! This window stayed in vogue until 1958 with the first small square rear window model. Note that the rear bonnet was the same as th ...more
Christina Engela, Bugspray

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Ira Progoff, The Cloud of Unknowing

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