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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,020,766 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,001,664 ratings — published 1963
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,323,639 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 981,488 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,380,600 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 177 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,243,624 ratings — published 1954
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 427,916 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 305,469 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,130 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 149 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,233,876 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,349 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.46 — 738,314 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 128 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,184,454 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 124 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,093,460 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,109,759 ratings — published 1952
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,148 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 257,633 ratings — published 1958
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.82 — 182,700 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 617,154 ratings — published 1951
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 477,696 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,406,206 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,282 ratings — published 1952
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 129,041 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 294,465 ratings — published 1950
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 85 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,358 ratings — published 1951
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,776 ratings — published 1955
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 630,596 ratings — published 1955
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.27 — 333,786 ratings — published 2024
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 469,605 ratings — published 2020
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 89,517 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 76 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 391,311 ratings — published 1950
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,910,984 ratings — published 2022
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 328,035 ratings — published 2021
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 74 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 521,365 ratings — published 1952
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 169,985 ratings — published 2009
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,010 ratings — published 1959
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,457,343 ratings — published 2017
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.55 — 750,339 ratings — published 1955
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,359 ratings — published 1953
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 164,497 ratings — published 1959
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 406,564 ratings — published 1954
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,368 ratings — published 1959
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 236,695 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,169 ratings — published 1953
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,805,333 ratings — published 2018
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,898 ratings — published 1951
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 161,365 ratings — published 1954
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 297,001 ratings — published 2015
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,669 ratings — published 1948
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 246,771 ratings — published 1957
“Then, it was easier to build the need for love and sex into the end-all purpose of life, avoiding personal commitment to truth in a catch-all commitment to "home" and "family." . . . . Irwin Shaw, who once goaded the American conscience on the great issues of war and peace and racial prejudice now wrote about sex and adultery; Norman Mailer and the young beatnik writers confined their revolutionary spirit to sex and kicks and drugs and advertising themselves in four-letter words. It was easier and more fashionable for writers to think about psychology than politics, about private motives than public purposes. Painters retreated into an abstract expressionism that flaunted discipline and glorified the evasion of meaning. Dramatists reduced human purpose to bitter, pretentious nonsense: "the theater of the absurd." Freudian thought gave this whole process of escape its dimension of endless, tantalizing, intellectual mystery: process within process, meaning hidden within meaning, until meaning itself disappeared and the hopeless, dull outside world hardly existed at all. As a drama critic said, in a rare note of revulsion at the stage world of Tennessee Williams, it was as if no reality remained for man except his sexual perversions, and the fact that he loved and hated his mother.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“Men are supposed to protect their women from harm and the harsh, evil world. But what is a girl to do when the evil inhabits her own home? When the depraved monster forces her to spread her legs and take him inside like a meek, compliant wife, and beats her when she doesn’t?
She plans a murder, that’s what she does.”
― Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
She plans a murder, that’s what she does.”
― Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
