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1953 Books
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Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,922,963 ratings — published 1963
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.95 — 336,922 ratings — published 1953
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.61 — 471,706 ratings — published 1953
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.12 — 176,432 ratings — published 1953
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.74 — 98,613 ratings — published 1953
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,505 ratings — published 1948
The Go-Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,388 ratings — published 1953
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,269 ratings — published 1953
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.28 — 206,403 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 — 47,801 ratings — published 1953
The Demolished Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,309 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 — 55,210 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 — 226,252 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 — 50,739 ratings — published 1955
Réquiem por un campesino español (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,047 ratings — published 1953
The Erasers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,919 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 — 9,843 ratings — published 1954
After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.92 — 51,325 ratings — published 1953
Life Among the Savages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,034 ratings — published 1953
Il mare non bagna Napoli (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,311 ratings — published 1953
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.15 — 140,673 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 — 114,175 ratings — published 1953
Destination Moon (Tintin, #16)
by (shelved 3 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,543 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 — 21,647 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 — 3,374 ratings — published 1953
The Kraken Wakes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,979 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 — 13,888 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 — 5,082 ratings — published 1953
The Calculus Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,226 ratings — published 1956
Explorers on the Moon (Tintin #17)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,892 ratings — published 1953
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
by (shelved 2 times as 1953)
avg rating 4.36 — 157,813 ratings — published 1971
“Between love and the automatic garbage chute, young people everywhere have made their choice and prefer the garbage chute. [Entre l'amour et le vide-ordure automatique la jeunesse de tous les pays a fait son choix et préfère le vide-ordure.]”
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“It should be said that all these years, in all the Special Camps, orthodox Soviet citizens, without even consulting each other, unanimously condemned the massacre of the stoolies, or any attempt by prisoners to fight for their rights. We need not put this down to sordid motives (though quite a few of the orthodox were compromised by their work for the godfather) since we can fully explain it by their theoretical views. They accepted all forms of repression and extermination, even wholesale, provided they came from above—as a manifestation of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Even impulsive and uncoordinated actions of the same kind but from below were regarded as banditry, and what is more, in its "Banderist" form (among the loyalists you would never get one to admit the right of the Ukraine to secede, because to do so was bourgeois nationalism). The refusal of the katorzhane to be slave laborers, their indignation about window bars and shootings, depressed and frightened the docile camp Communists.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
