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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,871 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,524 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,419 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,393 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,328,023 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,203 ratings — published 1954
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 401,523 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 263,367 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,319 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 145 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,172,253 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,224 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.44 — 653,818 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 127 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,140,038 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 122 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,053,720 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,061,482 ratings — published 1952
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,339 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,026 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 — 179,605 ratings — published 2009
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 467,667 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,803 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 224,071 ratings — published 1951
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,245 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 120,032 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 287,849 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 448,277 ratings — published 2020
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,501 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 80 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,010 ratings — published 1951
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 613,108 ratings — published 1955
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 85,894 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 381,919 ratings — published 1950
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,814,647 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 162,411 ratings — published 2009
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 735,367 ratings — published 1959
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 511,022 ratings — published 1952
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,539 ratings — published 1953
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 277,554 ratings — published 2024
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 315,574 ratings — published 2021
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 159,487 ratings — published 1959
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 395,778 ratings — published 1954
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,179,511 ratings — published 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 111,952 ratings — published 1959
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 233,337 ratings — published 1959
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,186 ratings — published 1959
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,672,930 ratings — published 2018
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 333,637 ratings — published 1953
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 155,334 ratings — published 1953
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 292,447 ratings — published 2015
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,719 ratings — published 1957
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,249 ratings — published 1951
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.93 — 94,007 ratings — published 1961
“Bloody men. Think they've a God-given right to be better off than women. Work, marriage, divorce, the lot. They do less, get paid more and act like they own the place.”
― Tell It to the Bees
― Tell It to the Bees
“It was like hundreds of roads he'd driven over - no different - a stretch of tar, lusterless, scaley, humping toward the center. On both sides were telephone poles, tilted this way and that, up a little, down...
Billboards - down farther an increasing clutter of them. Some road signs. A tottering barn in a waste field, the Mail Pouch ad half weathered away. Other fields. A large wood - almost leafless now - the bare branches netting darkly against the sky. Then down, where the road curved away, a big white farmhouse, trees on the lawn, neat fences - and above it all, way up, a television aerial, struck by the sun, shooting out bars of glare like neon. ("Thompson")”
― Shock!
Billboards - down farther an increasing clutter of them. Some road signs. A tottering barn in a waste field, the Mail Pouch ad half weathered away. Other fields. A large wood - almost leafless now - the bare branches netting darkly against the sky. Then down, where the road curved away, a big white farmhouse, trees on the lawn, neat fences - and above it all, way up, a television aerial, struck by the sun, shooting out bars of glare like neon. ("Thompson")”
― Shock!
