172 books
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1950 Books
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,130,571 ratings — published 1950
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.16 — 284,636 ratings — published 1950
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 14 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.21 — 377,463 ratings — published 1950
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.72 — 38,117 ratings — published 1950
A Town Like Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.16 — 61,668 ratings — published 1950
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.01 — 85,251 ratings — published 1950
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,870,656 ratings — published 1951
The 13 Clocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,555 ratings — published 1950
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.81 — 390,523 ratings — published 1959
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,808,161 ratings — published 1953
The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,842 ratings — published 1950
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,302,314 ratings — published 1952
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.97 — 461,299 ratings — published 1950
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.87 — 939,999 ratings — published 1955
Land of Black Gold (Tintin #15)
by (shelved 5 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,481 ratings — published 1950
El camino (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,586 ratings — published 1950
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,577 ratings — published 1959
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,731 ratings — published 1958
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.95 — 115,936 ratings — published 1955
The Grand Sophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,187 ratings — published 1950
Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,659 ratings — published 1950
The Grass Is Singing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,101 ratings — published 1950
Future Shock (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,247 ratings — published 1970
La vida breve (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,194 ratings — published 1950
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,916 ratings — published 1950
Helena (Loyola Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,969 ratings — published 1950
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,055 ratings — published 1953
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.98 — 481,963 ratings — published 1951
Across the River and into the Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.30 — 11,741 ratings — published 1950
The Veldt (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,473 ratings — published 1950
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,353 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm / 1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.30 — 215,181 ratings — published
The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1: I,the Jury / My Gun is Quick / Vengeance is Mine! (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,230 ratings — published 1950
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,564 ratings — published 1950
If I Ran the Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,344 ratings — published 1950
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,814 ratings — published 1952
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,626 ratings — published 1957
Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,915 ratings — published 1950
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,537 ratings — published 1950
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.85 — 250,895 ratings — published 1958
Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,138 ratings — published 1954
Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,227 ratings — published 1957
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,116,337 ratings — published 1954
Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,278 ratings — published 1950
Farmer in the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,226 ratings — published 1950
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,126,814 ratings — published 1954
American Housewife (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.59 — 10,330 ratings — published 2025
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1950)
avg rating 2.75 — 4,008 ratings — published 1982
“The red glow of the robot's eyes held him. "Do you expect me," said Cutie slowly, "to believe any such complicated, implausible, hypothesis as you have just outlined? What do you take me for?"
Powell sputtered apple fragments onto the table and turned red. "Why damn you, it wasn't a hypothesis. Those were facts."
Cutie sounded grim, "Globes of energy millions of miles across! Worlds with three billion humans on them! Infinite emptiness! Sorry, Powell, but I don't believe it. I'll puzzle this thing out for myself. Good-by.”
― I, Robot
Powell sputtered apple fragments onto the table and turned red. "Why damn you, it wasn't a hypothesis. Those were facts."
Cutie sounded grim, "Globes of energy millions of miles across! Worlds with three billion humans on them! Infinite emptiness! Sorry, Powell, but I don't believe it. I'll puzzle this thing out for myself. Good-by.”
― I, Robot
“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”
― Shooting an Elephant
― Shooting an Elephant














