Mid Century


The Bell Jar
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Lolita
Invisible Man
You Should Be So Lucky
The Briar Club
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Giovanni’s Room
Play It As It Lays
Franny and Zooey
Revolutionary Road
Animal Farm
The Mad Wife
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Sex and The Single Girl by Helen Gurley BrownHow to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay SmallshawMake Do and Mend by Imperial War MuseumsMiss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior by Judith MartinKeeping Up Appearances by Roy Clarke
How to be a Lady (Vintage Advice)
37 books — 3 voters
Pushback by John E. StithIn a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. HughesThe Trouble Makers by Celia FremlinThe Jealous One by Celia FremlinTwo Mysteries by Charlotte Armstrong
Mid-Century Domestic Noir
29 books — 3 voters

Exercises in Style by Raymond QueneauThe Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges PerecCosmicomics by Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
...nothing but Oulipo
39 books — 8 voters
The Anodyne Necklace by Martha GrimesCelestial Chess by Thomas BontlyThe Dancing Man by P.M. HubbardBorrower of the Night by Elizabeth PetersThe Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
Midcentury Mysteries
11 books — 2 voters

We Fight Fascists by Daniel SonabendA Murder Is Announced by Agatha ChristieA 1940s Childhood by James  MarshBrutal London by Simon PhippsLondon 1945 by Maureen  Waller
Living in Post-Second World War Britain
100 books — 12 voters
The Mad Wife by Meagan ChurchThe Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth ArnottShe's a Lamb! by Meredith HambrockMotherthing by Ainslie HogarthThe Once and Future Me by Melissa  Pace
Uncanny 1950s Ladies
17 books — 3 voters

Amy Matayo
He clung to his mid-century politics like plastic wrap clings to leftover Thanksgiving stuffing. Stubborn. Hard to separate. Impossible to straighten once it gets jumbled up, so you give up trying and toss it aside.
Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

Just a penis with a thesaurus
anonymous reader on Updike, David Foster Wallace

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