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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidLost Highway by Peter GuralnickBetween a Heart and a Rock Place by Pat BenatarThanks to Life by Ericka Kim VerbaUtopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Best Books about Musicians, Singers, and Bands
284 books — 72 voters
11/22/63 by Stephen KingThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverCircle of Friends by Maeve BinchyThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónBrooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Books Set in 1950s
75 books — 53 voters

Swerve by Jim LindsayGods of Howl Mountain by Taylor BrownFear of Flying by Erica JongLondon Calling by Sara SheridanSnow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Books Set in the Fifties
86 books — 43 voters
Death of an Officer by Mark EllisThe Pale Horse by Agatha ChristieThe Zig Zag Girl by Elly GriffithsThe Secrets of Greystone House by Marcus AttwaterBrat Farrar by Josephine Tey
1950s British Mysteries
20 books — 18 voters

We Fight Fascists by Daniel SonabendA Murder Is Announced by Agatha ChristieA 1940s Childhood by James MarshBrutal London by Simon PhippsLondon 1945 by Maureen Waller
Living in Post-Second World War Britain
100 books — 12 voters
Peyton Place by Grace MetaliousValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannWood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris RoseFear of Flying by Erica JongThe Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Vintage Deliciousness
10 books — 9 voters

The Mad Wife by Meagan ChurchThe Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth ArnottShe's a Lamb! by Meredith HambrockMotherthing by Ainslie HogarthThe Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace
Uncanny 1950s Ladies
17 books — 3 voters
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddDracula by Bram StokerThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerWatership Down by Richard AdamsValentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
An Authors List: They Wrote That in Their Fifties?
16 books — 2 voters

The Skinner by Jay GilbertThe Threshold by Michael StapletonInterrupted Journey by James WilsonLight Cakes for Tea by Eirlys TreforA Short Answer by Stanley Middleton
New Authors Limited
65 books — 1 voter

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