58 books
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1950 Books
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,183,407 ratings — published 1950
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.16 — 289,017 ratings — published 1950
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 15 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.21 — 383,677 ratings — published 1950
Strangers on a Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.72 — 39,267 ratings — published 1950
A Town Like Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.16 — 62,529 ratings — published 1950
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.01 — 87,944 ratings — published 1950
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,941,907 ratings — published 1951
The 13 Clocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,677 ratings — published 1950
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.81 — 405,704 ratings — published 1959
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,899,464 ratings — published 1953
The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,094 ratings — published 1950
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,336,902 ratings — published 1952
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.96 — 469,132 ratings — published 1950
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.87 — 959,624 ratings — published 1955
Land of Black Gold (Tintin #15)
by (shelved 5 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,691 ratings — published 1950
El camino (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,606 ratings — published 1950
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,746 ratings — published 1959
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.75 — 418,320 ratings — published 1958
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.95 — 122,047 ratings — published 1955
The Grand Sophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,758 ratings — published 1950
Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,093 ratings — published 1950
The Grass is Singing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,404 ratings — published 1950
Future Shock (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,291 ratings — published 1970
La vida breve (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,267 ratings — published 1950
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,895 ratings — published 1950
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,950 ratings — published 1950
Helena (Loyola Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,028 ratings — published 1950
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,386 ratings — published 1953
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.98 — 491,328 ratings — published 1951
Across the River and into the Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.29 — 12,039 ratings — published 1950
The Veldt (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,083 ratings — published 1950
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,161 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm / 1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.30 — 218,852 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 — 2,244 ratings — published 1950
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,038 ratings — published 1950
If I Ran the Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,394 ratings — published 1950
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.02 — 86,504 ratings — published 1952
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,079 ratings — published 1957
Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,131 ratings — published 1950
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,635 ratings — published 1950
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.20 — 592,114 ratings — published 1957
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,819 ratings — published 1958
Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,505 ratings — published 1954
Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,144 ratings — published 1957
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,148,437 ratings — published 1954
Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,842 ratings — published 1950
Farmer in the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,360 ratings — published 1950
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1950)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,191,162 ratings — published 1954
“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
“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














