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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,881,771 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 260 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,821,718 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,189,507 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 208 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,542 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,307,187 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,137,998 ratings — published 1954
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 392,382 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 249,378 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,200 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,143,547 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,556 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.44 — 633,935 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,120,150 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 120 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,036,470 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,040,262 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,268 ratings — published 1958
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,702 ratings — published 1952
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.82 — 178,546 ratings — published 2009
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,998 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,359,881 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,784 ratings — published 1951
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 594,533 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 116,432 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 285,153 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 440,193 ratings — published 2020
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 603,468 ratings — published 1955
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,030 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 483,202 ratings — published 1951
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,163 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 378,244 ratings — published 1950
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 506,446 ratings — published 1952
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,769,046 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.74 — 159,100 ratings — published 2009
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 729,245 ratings — published 1959
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 310,275 ratings — published 2021
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,351 ratings — published 1953
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 390,829 ratings — published 1954
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,605,698 ratings — published 2018
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 157,503 ratings — published 1959
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.29 — 245,093 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,059,549 ratings — published 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 110,263 ratings — published 1959
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 231,974 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,743 ratings — published 1953
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,781 ratings — published 1957
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 154,590 ratings — published 1953
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,469 ratings — published 1959
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,270 ratings — published 1951
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 290,523 ratings — published 2015
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,300 ratings — published 1961
“By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.”
― The Century
― The Century
“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!
