1959


The Haunting of Hill House
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
A Separate Peace
The Sirens of Titan
Starship Troopers
The Tin Drum
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
Time Out of Joint
Hawaii
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
Goodbye, Columbus
The Fawn
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 — 28 voters
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardA Night to Remember by Walter LordA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfCider with Rosie by Laurie LeeThe Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy
History Published in Decade: 1950s
52 books — 7 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
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha ChristieThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryGoldfinger by Ian FlemingTo Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Best Books 1959
108 books — 45 voters

Fritz Leiber
The gods in Lankhmar (that is, the gods and candidates for divinity who dwell or camp, it may be said, in the Imperishable City, not the gods of Lankhmar—a very different and most secret and dire matter)… the gods in Lankhmar sometimes seem as if they must be as numberless as the grains of sand in the Great Eastern Desert. The vast majority of them began as men, or more strictly the memories of men who led ascetic, vision-haunted lives and died painful, messy deaths. One gets the impression that ...more
Fritz Leiber, Swords in the Mist

John Howard Griffin
when the riot controls had been put into effect, and a nervous white population was waiting, it took little to set it off. In Wichita, a few white youths drove down into the black area and simply fired off guns. This brought black people out of their houses; in rage at seeing the harassment, they hurled stones or sticks at a passing car, and the battle was on. In that particular instance the police arrested the five whites who were armed and twelve young black men who had only rocks and sticks. ...more
John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

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