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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,946,914 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,905,966 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,249,879 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,232 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,339,621 ratings — published 1952
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 406,955 ratings — published 1959
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,194,839 ratings — published 1954
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 271,324 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,597 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,186,713 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 418,946 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.45 — 666,956 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 127 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,150,906 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 123 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,063,420 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,073,350 ratings — published 1952
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,286 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,086 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 — 180,290 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,990 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,382,915 ratings — published 1956
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 470,197 ratings — published 1953
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,468 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 122,498 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 289,403 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 452,694 ratings — published 2020
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,239 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,045 ratings — published 1951
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 81 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 617,152 ratings — published 1955
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 86,689 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 76 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 384,197 ratings — published 1950
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 74 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 739,628 ratings — published 1959
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 293,984 ratings — published 2024
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,836,970 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 164,402 ratings — published 2009
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 513,621 ratings — published 1952
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,628 ratings — published 1953
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 160,694 ratings — published 1959
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,596 ratings — published 1959
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 318,881 ratings — published 2021
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,237,294 ratings — published 2017
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 398,385 ratings — published 1954
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 234,113 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,734 ratings — published 1953
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,703,685 ratings — published 2018
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 112,925 ratings — published 1959
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,872 ratings — published 1951
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 156,473 ratings — published 1954
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 293,523 ratings — published 2015
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,224 ratings — published 1957
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,244 ratings — published 1948
“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 1950, he was accorded the dubious honor of being the first prominent scientist to appear on the earliest of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s famous lists of crypto-communists.”
― A Beautiful Mind
― A Beautiful Mind
