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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,873,795 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 260 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,812,237 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,182,205 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 208 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 940,801 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,303,909 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,130,160 ratings — published 1954
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 391,149 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 248,117 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 446,665 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,134,090 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,038 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.44 — 631,904 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,117,602 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 120 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,034,130 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,034,994 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,049 ratings — published 1958
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,488 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 — 178,391 ratings — published 2009
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,304 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,356,921 ratings — published 1956
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 593,624 ratings — published 1951
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,512 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 116,098 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 284,812 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 439,161 ratings — published 2020
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 602,206 ratings — published 1955
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,896 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 482,393 ratings — published 1951
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,946 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 377,737 ratings — published 1950
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 505,774 ratings — published 1952
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,761,317 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.74 — 158,705 ratings — published 2009
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 728,261 ratings — published 2001
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 309,652 ratings — published 2021
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,162 ratings — published 1953
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 390,147 ratings — published 1954
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,589,227 ratings — published 2018
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 157,282 ratings — published 1959
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.29 — 241,820 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,037,881 ratings — published 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 110,125 ratings — published 1959
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 231,798 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 329,192 ratings — published 1953
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,673 ratings — published 1957
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 154,501 ratings — published 1953
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,384 ratings — published 1959
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,147 ratings — published 1951
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 290,281 ratings — published 2015
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,235 ratings — published 1961
“If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.”
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
“I made him look bad. Because a wife who makes her own money? A wife who applied herself and became a published author? That is the worst thing a woman could ever do.
Because men are supposed to bring home the bread.
Women are just supposed to be pretty.”
― Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
Because men are supposed to bring home the bread.
Women are just supposed to be pretty.”
― Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
