58 books
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10 voters
1953 Books
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Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,922,624 ratings — published 1963
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.95 — 336,911 ratings — published 1953
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.61 — 471,696 ratings — published 1953
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.12 — 176,423 ratings — published 1953
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.74 — 98,608 ratings — published 1953
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,499 ratings — published 1948
The Go-Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,383 ratings — published 1953
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,251 ratings — published 1953
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.28 — 206,392 ratings — published 1953
A Kiss Before Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,064 ratings — published 1953
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,797 ratings — published 1953
The Demolished Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,308 ratings — published 1953
The Night of the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,179 ratings — published 1953
A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.94 — 55,206 ratings — published 1953
Someone at a Distance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,018 ratings — published 1953
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,809 ratings — published 1966
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.84 — 226,237 ratings — published 1951
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,070 ratings — published 1953
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,733 ratings — published 1955
Réquiem por un campesino español (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,046 ratings — published 1953
The Erasers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,916 ratings — published 1953
The Lost Steps (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,829 ratings — published 1953
The Sound of the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,841 ratings — published 1954
After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.92 — 51,317 ratings — published 1953
Life Among the Savages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,033 ratings — published 1953
Il mare non bagna Napoli (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,310 ratings — published 1953
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.15 — 140,669 ratings — published 1953
Black Wings Has My Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,849 ratings — published 1953
The Golden Apples of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,817 ratings — published 1953
The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.19 — 114,158 ratings — published 1953
Destination Moon (Tintin, #16)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,544 ratings — published 1950
Lucky Jim (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.74 — 32,655 ratings — published 1954
Madeline's Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.24 — 29,800 ratings — published 1953
The Unconquered (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 1953
The Violins of Saint-Jacques (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.70 — 765 ratings — published 1953
The Man Who Planted Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.18 — 21,638 ratings — published 1953
Red Lights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,488 ratings — published 1953
Quién de nosotros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,373 ratings — published 1953
The Kraken Wakes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,976 ratings — published 1953
Savage Night (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,632 ratings — published 1953
Guard Your Daughters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.80 — 536 ratings — published 1953
Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,885 ratings — published 1953
The Last Days of Stalin (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.79 — 943 ratings — published 2016
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,081 ratings — published 1953
The Calculus Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,223 ratings — published 1956
Explorers on the Moon (Tintin #17)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,893 ratings — published 1953
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.36 — 157,809 ratings — published 1971
“8 August 1953: Prime Minister of Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah was dismissed by President of Kashmir Dr. Karan Singh and later arrested. Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed was appointed as the new prime minister. 16 August 1953: Bilateral talks between Pakistan and India in Delhi. The two countries agreed to appoint a Plebiscite Administrator within six months.”
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“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how the two Hillarys had once been mentionable in the same breath. On a first-lady goodwill tour of Asia in April 1995—the kind of banal trip that she now claims as part of her foreign-policy 'experience'—Mrs. Clinton had been in Nepal and been briefly introduced to the late Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest. Ever ready to milk the moment, she announced that her mother had actually named her for this famous and intrepid explorer. The claim 'worked' well enough to be repeated at other stops and even showed up in Bill Clinton's memoirs almost a decade later, as one more instance of the gutsy tradition that undergirds the junior senator from New York.
Sen. Clinton was born in 1947, and Sir Edmund Hillary and his partner Tenzing Norgay did not ascend Mount Everest until 1953, so the story was self-evidently untrue and eventually yielded to fact-checking. Indeed, a spokeswoman for Sen. Clinton named Jennifer Hanley phrased it like this in a statement in October 2006, conceding that the tale was untrue but nonetheless charming: 'It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add.'
Perfect. It worked, in other words, having been coined long after Sir Edmund became a bankable celebrity, but now its usefulness is exhausted and its untruth can safely be blamed on Mummy.”
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Sen. Clinton was born in 1947, and Sir Edmund Hillary and his partner Tenzing Norgay did not ascend Mount Everest until 1953, so the story was self-evidently untrue and eventually yielded to fact-checking. Indeed, a spokeswoman for Sen. Clinton named Jennifer Hanley phrased it like this in a statement in October 2006, conceding that the tale was untrue but nonetheless charming: 'It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add.'
Perfect. It worked, in other words, having been coined long after Sir Edmund became a bankable celebrity, but now its usefulness is exhausted and its untruth can safely be blamed on Mummy.”
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