1955 Books

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Lolita Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.87 — 949,401 ratings — published 1955
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,046,319 ratings — published 1955
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The Magician’s Nephew The Magician’s Nephew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.05 — 609,671 ratings — published 1955
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.95 — 118,322 ratings — published 1955
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The Quiet American The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,787 ratings — published 1955
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Pedro Páramo Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.05 — 101,024 ratings — published 1955
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.06 — 64,593 ratings — published 1955
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The Recognitions The Recognitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,383 ratings — published 1955
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Moonraker (James Bond, #3) Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.81 — 31,394 ratings — published 1955
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The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.54 — 732,773 ratings — published 1959
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,573 ratings — published 1955
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The Chrysalids The Chrysalids (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,325 ratings — published 1955
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The End of Eternity The End of Eternity (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,779 ratings — published 1955
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On the Road On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,548 ratings — published 1957
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The October Country The October Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,745 ratings — published 1955
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Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #34) Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #34)
by (shelved 5 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.76 — 39,646 ratings — published 1955
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Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1) Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.03 — 103,982 ratings — published 1955
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A Night to Remember A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,259 ratings — published 1955
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The Perfume Collector The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,385 ratings — published 2013
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.16 — 49,882 ratings — published 1955
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1) Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.28 — 147,703 ratings — published 1955
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The Last Temptation of Christ The Last Temptation of Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,735 ratings — published 1955
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The Inheritors The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,620 ratings — published 1955
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Solar Lottery Solar Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.50 — 5,312 ratings — published 1955
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Marjorie Morningstar Marjorie Morningstar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,346 ratings — published 1955
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79 Park Avenue 79 Park Avenue (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,086 ratings — published 1955
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Eloise Eloise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,903 ratings — published 1955
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Gift from the Sea Gift from the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.14 — 56,259 ratings — published 1955
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Profiles in Courage Profiles in Courage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,643 ratings — published 1955
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,581 ratings — published 1955
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Night Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,654 ratings — published 1956
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After Dark, My Sweet (Mulholland Classic) After Dark, My Sweet (Mulholland Classic)
by (shelved 3 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,760 ratings — published 1955
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The Ginger Man The Ginger Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.61 — 11,255 ratings — published 1955
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Ragazzi di vita Ragazzi di vita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,311 ratings — published 1955
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,475 ratings — published 1939
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The Tree of Man The Tree of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,241 ratings — published 1955
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Band of Angels Band of Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.70 — 348 ratings — published 1955
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Grandfather Stories (New York Classics) Grandfather Stories (New York Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.82 — 28 ratings — published 1955
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The Good Shepherd The Good Shepherd (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,470 ratings — published 1955
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Lord Grizzly Lord Grizzly (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.94 — 675 ratings — published 1954
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The Dollmaker The Dollmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,825 ratings — published 1954
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The View from Pompey's Head: A Novel (Voices of the South) The View from Pompey's Head: A Novel (Voices of the South)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.86 — 118 ratings — published 1954
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Run Silent Run Deep (Cassell Military Paperbacks) Run Silent Run Deep (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,728 ratings — published 1955
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Homer's Daughter Homer's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,075 ratings — published 1955
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Notes of a Native Son Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,457 ratings — published 1955
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Proud Beggars Proud Beggars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,312 ratings — published 1955
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A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 3.71 — 18,148 ratings — published 1955
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Requiem for a Wren Requiem for a Wren (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,631 ratings — published 1955
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İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1) İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.50 — 13,137 ratings — published 1955
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The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time, #3) The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as 1955)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,367 ratings — published 1955
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John Osborne
“There was no question in my mind on that muggy August day that within less than a year - and on my father's birthday - Look Back in Anger would have opened, in what still seems like an inordinately long, sharp and glimmering summer.”
John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's secretary; the other he did not recognize till she smiled and said his name in a gentle voice. She was Mrs. Freeman, the wife of the bishop; he saluted her and went to Miss Robertson.
'Will you tell them I'm here?' he said.
'I'm sorry, Mr. Haffner, they don't even want me to take minutes right now.'
'Well, just go tell them I'm out of the running.'
There was not so much as a flicker in her eyes. 'They locked the door,' she said, 'and besides, I don't think they'll accept your withdrawal.'
'Won't they though. Just give them my message, Miss Robertson. I'm leaving.'
'Oh, Mr. Haffner, I know they'll want to see you. It's very important.'
'They will, huh. I'll give them half an hour.'
He sat down beside her to talk. It was not that he liked Miss Robertson particularly. Her soul had been for a long time smoothed out and hobbled by girdles and high heels as her body; her personality was as blank and brown as her gabardine suit; her mind was exactly good enough to take down 140 any sort of words a minute without error, without boredom, without wincing. But she could talk idly in a bare room like this well enough; he remembered that she liked science-fiction; he drew her out. Besides, she was not Mrs. Freeman. Mrs. Freeman was a good woman; that is, she did good, and did not resent those who did bad but pitied them. For example, now: she was knitting alone while the other two talked, neither trying to join them nor, as John actively knew, making them uncomfortable for not having included her; and she was waiting for the bishop, who for reasons no one understood, hated to drive at night without her. John liked good people—no, he respected them above everyone else, above the powerful or beautiful or rich, whom he knew well, the gifted or learned or even the wise; indeed, he was rather in awe of the good, but their actual sweet presence made him uncomfortable. Mrs. Freeman there: with her hair drawn back straight to a bun, she sat in a steel-tube, leatherette chair, against a beige, fire-resistant, sound-absorbent wall, knitting in that ambient, indirect light socks for the mad; he knew quite well that if he should go over beside her she would talk with him in her gentle voice about whatever he wished to talk about, that she would have firm views which, however, she would never declare harshly against his should they differ, that she would tell him, if he asked about her work with the insane, what she had accomplished and what failed to accomplish, that she would make him acutely uncomfortable. He felt himself deficient not to be living, as people like Mrs. Freeman seemed to live, in an altogether moral world, but more especially he was reluctant to come near such people because he did not want to know more than he could help knowing of their motives; he did not trust motives; he was a lawyer. Therefore, though it was all but rude of him, he sat with Miss Robertson till the door opened.”
George P. Elliott, Hour of Last Things

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