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Listopia > 50 Book Lists

Conversations on History and Literature by Wallace StegnerThe Penguin Book of Irish Fiction by Colm TóibínPlace in Fiction by Eudora WeltyThe Pale Abyssinian by Miles BredinMeditation on Space-Time by Leonard Seet
Super Underrated Books (Fewer than 50 Ratings)
1,265 books — 167 voters
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan SlocumbPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigYou Rock My World by Camilla IsleyNot Another Love Song by Julie  Soto
52 Book Club 2024: #50 A Musical Instrument On The Cover
238 books — 142 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieA Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly  JacksonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
52 Book Club 2023: #50 Related To The Word "Murder"
593 books — 131 voters
Eden 2 by Joseph A. AndersonDracula by Bram StokerThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanTitus Groan by Mervyn PeakeThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The 52 Book Club 2026: #50 - Set In A Castle
179 books — 114 voters

The Rose Code by Kate QuinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
52 Book Club 2025: #50 Set in the 1940's (Includes WWII)
172 books — 93 voters
Grip by Stephan EnterThe Dinner by Herman KochBonita Avenue by Peter BuwaldaThe Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesStoner by John  Williams
Dé vijftig boeken van de laatste vijf jaar
51 books — 58 voters

Go as a River by Shelley ReadThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisCity of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
52 Book Club 2025: #50 Set in the 1940's (Does Not Include WWII)
46 books — 48 voters
Middlemarch by George EliotWatership Down by Richard  AdamsBreakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Four Quartets by T.S. EliotOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The View from Fifty-One
75 books — 29 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLolita by Vladimir NabokovSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
New York Public Library: 50 Memorable Books From 50 Years (1956 - 2005)
49 books — 21 voters
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanSo Much for That by Lionel ShriverDeath of an Obnoxious Tourist by Maria HudginsIf She Says Yes by Tasha L. HarrisonNot That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
Quinquagenarian characters
19 books — 6 voters

Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley ElstonThe Storm by Rachel HawkinsPalmemordet by Erik MagnusonThe Star from Calcutta by Sujata MasseyDead in the Water by John Marrs
The 52 Book Club's Mystery Genre Challenge - #50 Published This Year (2026)
37 books — 5 voters
Secrets of Dating After Fifty by Karen HaddiganThe Art of Senior Dating by Ravina M. Chandra
Life After Fifty: Aging, Dating, & Relationships
2 books — 2 voters

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