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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,968,572 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,934,237 ratings — published 1963
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,273,917 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 215 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,250 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,351,382 ratings — published 1952
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 412,462 ratings — published 1959
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,209,360 ratings — published 1954
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 279,510 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 455,773 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,200,977 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,575 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.45 — 683,598 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 126 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,161,001 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 122 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,072,422 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,085,052 ratings — published 1952
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,290 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,107 ratings — published 1958
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.82 — 181,068 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 608,583 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,583 ratings — published 1956
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 472,659 ratings — published 1953
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 226,739 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,627 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 290,860 ratings — published 1950
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,844 ratings — published 1951
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,049 ratings — published 1955
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 456,887 ratings — published 2020
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 81 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 621,523 ratings — published 1955
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 87,528 ratings — published 1952
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 307,393 ratings — published 2024
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 76 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 386,240 ratings — published 1950
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,857,897 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 166,071 ratings — published 2009
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 73 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 743,094 ratings — published 1959
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 516,005 ratings — published 1952
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 322,011 ratings — published 2021
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,716 ratings — published 1953
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,036 ratings — published 1959
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 161,779 ratings — published 1959
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 400,949 ratings — published 1954
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,297,673 ratings — published 2017
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 234,879 ratings — published 1959
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 113,893 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 337,696 ratings — published 1953
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,734,573 ratings — published 2018
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 119,459 ratings — published 1951
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 157,951 ratings — published 1954
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 294,654 ratings — published 2015
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,672 ratings — published 1948
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,677 ratings — published 1957
“There is no law in this country,” said Magda, “against men helping their wives to clear up the mess, is there?”
“As a matter of fact,” said Stefan, “I think there is.”
― The Women in Black
“As a matter of fact,” said Stefan, “I think there is.”
― The Women in Black
“In the 1950s, America had picked up the globe by the heels and shaken the change from its pockets. Europe had become a poor cousin -- all crests and no table settings. And the indistinguishable countries of Africa, Asia, and South America had just begun skittering across our schoolroom walls like salamanders in the sun. True, the Communists were out there, somewhere, but with Joe McCarthy in the grave and no one on the Moon, for the time being the Russians just skulked across the pages of spy novels.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
