Mid Century


The Bell Jar
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Lolita
Giovanni’s Room
Invisible Man
You Should Be So Lucky
The Briar Club
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Pale Fire
Play It As It Lays
Franny and Zooey
Revolutionary Road
Animal Farm
The Once and Future Me by Melissa  PaceThe Mad Wife by Meagan ChurchThe Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth ArnottShe's a Lamb! by Meredith HambrockMotherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
Uncanny 1950s Ladies
18 books — 4 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

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 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

Pushback by John E. StithThe Jealous One by Celia FremlinIn a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. HughesThe Trouble Makers by Celia FremlinTwo Mysteries by Charlotte Armstrong
Mid-Century Domestic Noir
29 books — 4 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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