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night is on here twice

One of the better decade lists. The stars my destination is the only book i had to add. Seems like the 60s is the all-time best decade for literature.

Long Day's Journey Into Night, though a superb play, doesn't belong on this list - it was written in the 40s.

Removed Long day's journey into night and duplicate of Elie wiesels night.

Long Day's Journey Into Night back on - written published 1956.

Best decade of the century when it comes to the perfect balance of mainstream classics like Catcher In The Rye, Lord Of The Flies, and art-driven pure literature classics like Invisible Man, On The Road and Lord Of The Rings

the 50's............when America's number one entertainment was reading. today it's blogs and TV.

There are multiple duplicate Lord of the Rings entries, both individual volumes and the entire trilogy.

I read a sci-fi novel in 1963 that described a Long Island, NY community that was cut off from everything by an errant ray from outer space.

The interesting point was that the 3 or 4 thousand people developed their own govt. based on their needs and the reality of their situation.

What was the NAME of that novel??

Does anyone know a title of a book in which a character of the story was named Honey Shaw? My mother was named after the character but she doesn't know the title or authors name. I am assuming it is a Romance novel from the 1950s or earlier since my mom was born in 52. Any info would be appreciated!

Selected stories of Chekhov - is this here because the collection was first published in the 50s? They sure weren't written then.

Ted wrote: "Selected stories of Chekhov - is this here because the collection was first published in the 50s? They sure weren't written then."

No idea why it's on the 50s list.

All the stories in it were written and published in some form prior to 1904. However, these lists go by publication list, so it can be argued that the collection belongs in the decade list based on when it was first published in that form.

In which case, this still doesn't belong on this list because the edition that is on here was translated by a married couple who did not meet until the seventies when they began working together on translating books.

Regardless, it's coming off this list today as I can't find a single thing tying this book to 1950 for an original publication date including what is actually on the book entry and the Library of Congress listing.

Ted wrote: "Selected stories of Chekhov - is this here because the collection was first published in the 50s? They sure weren't written then."

Part of the problem might be that at some point some non-matching Anton Chekhov collections were merged. There are multiple collections of his which do not contain the same stories. I've seen this happen and have even (twice now) separated a book from others that were similar but not the same. Potentially a book which was published in the 50s was added to this list but then combined improperly with one that wasn't.

The following were removed because the original publication date was not in this range:

Selected Stories
A Moveable Feast
Parade's End
Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour
Miss Silver Comes to Stay
For Your Eyes Only
The Thinking Machine, Adventures of a Mastermind
Winter Solstice
The Thirty Years War
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic

The novel Flowers for Algernon should be removed because it was published in the sixties and can already be found on that decade's list of books.

Removed The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn: not published until 1973. (French and English translations: Volume 1 in 1974.)

Thania wrote: "The novel Flowers for Algernon should be removed because it was published in the sixties and can already be found on that decade's list of books."
The original short story was published in 1959. The novel published in 1966 was an expanded version of this. In effect, it was published twice.

Removed Henry James' 'The Portrait of a Lady', published 1881.

The list I've included contains 80-plus books featured as bestsellers of the decade by Publisher's Weekly. Some of which GR catalogue does not identify as occurring within the said period. Books such as The Foundling (Georgette Heyer), The Adventurer, The Robe (Douglas), The Following, The Wall (Long), The Wanderer (Leiber), Winthrop Woman (Seton) all cannot be included because of this reason.

'Advise and Consent' got Pulitzer in 1960.

And I cannot add great Pakistani / South-asian fiction from the time because they are posted according to latest Urdu editions of the works or English versions - that were published in recent years.