385 books
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1949 Books
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Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.59 — 257,874 ratings — published 1949
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.89 — 30,653 ratings — published 1949
Earth Abides (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,931 ratings — published 1949
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,091 ratings — published 1949
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,305 ratings — published 1949
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,872 ratings — published 1949
Love in a Cold Climate (Radlett & Montdore, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,229 ratings — published 1949
The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,772 ratings — published 1949
The Third Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,565 ratings — published 1950
Farmer Giles of Ham (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,254 ratings — published 1949
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,265 ratings — published 1949
The Kingdom of This World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,244 ratings — published 1949
Nothing More Than Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,233 ratings — published 1949
Iron in the Soul (The Roads to Freedom, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,722 ratings — published 1949
The Hunting Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,719 ratings — published 1949
The Door in the Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,638 ratings — published 1949
Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,199 ratings — published 1949
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,270 ratings — published 1949
The Beautiful Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.32 — 5,672 ratings — published 1949
The Dream Merchants (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,562 ratings — published 1949
The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,606 ratings — published 1950
Historia de una escalera (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,665 ratings — published 1949
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.22 — 27,854 ratings — published 1948
King Solomon's Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,599 ratings — published 1949
Murder for Christmas (Mordecai Tremaine #4)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.45 — 4,461 ratings — published 1949
Il diavolo sulle colline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,033 ratings — published 1949
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,989 ratings — published 1949
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.08 — 90,882 ratings — published 1949
Tambang Emas Dick Digger (Lucky Luke #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.46 — 553 ratings — published 1949
Carney's House Party (Deep Valley, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,327 ratings — published 1949
Brat Farrar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,631 ratings — published 1949
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,074 ratings — published 1949
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,239 ratings — published 1949
A Wreath of Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.87 — 875 ratings — published 1949
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,076 ratings — published 1949
The God that Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.04 — 460 ratings — published 1949
A Rage to Live (Modern Library Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.71 — 333 ratings — published 1949
The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,857 ratings — published 1949
The Aleph and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.32 — 48,641 ratings — published 1945
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,345 ratings — published 1951
Red Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,963 ratings — published 1949
Prisoners of the Sun (Tintin #14)
by (shelved 2 times as 1949)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,274 ratings — published 1948
A Good Man is Hard to Find (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1949)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,714 ratings — published
“No sooner did the plan let them off at New Caledonia, than Barby found another friend. He was a Kanaka taxi driver, over six feet tall and muscled like a blacksmith, with sooty skin and hair turned yellow from many applications of lime, a standard native treatment for lice. He chewed betel incessantly, which Barby thought was fascinating, since it turned his tongue and lips the color of a ripe tomato. His name, he said in wonderfully bad English, was Henri. He pronounced it 'On-ree.”
― The Phantom Shark
― The Phantom Shark
“Plenty of blanks in the world's charts. There will have to be a lot surveying before all of them are filled in.”
― The Phantom Shark
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