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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,873,631 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 260 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,812,004 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,182,009 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 208 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 940,780 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,303,830 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,129,988 ratings — published 1954
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 391,125 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 248,072 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 446,657 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,133,897 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,016 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.44 — 631,846 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,117,548 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 120 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,034,072 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,034,906 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,041 ratings — published 1958
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,488 ratings — published 1952
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.82 — 178,388 ratings — published 2009
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,284 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,356,851 ratings — published 1956
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 593,601 ratings — published 1951
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,503 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 116,085 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 284,800 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 439,129 ratings — published 2020
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 602,168 ratings — published 1955
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,892 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 482,372 ratings — published 1951
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,938 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 377,721 ratings — published 1950
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 505,761 ratings — published 1952
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,761,116 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.74 — 158,697 ratings — published 2009
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 728,237 ratings — published 2001
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 309,640 ratings — published 2021
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 81,156 ratings — published 1953
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 390,131 ratings — published 1954
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,588,967 ratings — published 2018
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 157,277 ratings — published 1959
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.29 — 241,730 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,037,401 ratings — published 2017
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 110,120 ratings — published 1959
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 231,792 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 329,175 ratings — published 1953
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,670 ratings — published 1957
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 154,499 ratings — published 1953
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,382 ratings — published 1959
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,146 ratings — published 1951
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 290,276 ratings — published 2015
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,235 ratings — published 1961
“The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“If a woman drank too much, it was probably because she wasn't fulfilling all her domestic duties. If a man drank too much, it was probably his wife's fault for not fulfilling all her domestic duties. . . . Many so-called experts of the 1950s believed that alcohol abuse was a manifestation of failed gender performance. Which almost shakes out, considering that trying to conform to the role of a perfect 1950s housewife would make any woman want to have a drink.”
― Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
― Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
