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1950s Books
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,908,861 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,857,737 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,214,644 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 208 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 950,184 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,320,730 ratings — published 1952
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,166,943 ratings — published 1954
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 398,145 ratings — published 1959
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 257,654 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,797 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 144 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,162,777 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,365 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.44 — 646,051 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,132,741 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 121 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,047,471 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,054,025 ratings — published 1952
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,593 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,384 ratings — published 1958
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.82 — 179,148 ratings — published 2009
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 465,942 ratings — published 1953
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,369,528 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 223,189 ratings — published 1951
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 598,943 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 118,554 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 286,891 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 445,291 ratings — published 2020
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,888 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 80 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 486,878 ratings — published 1951
The Magician’s Nephew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 610,158 ratings — published 1955
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 85,285 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 73 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 380,584 ratings — published 1950
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 509,349 ratings — published 1952
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,799,955 ratings — published 2022
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 733,177 ratings — published 1959
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 161,127 ratings — published 2009
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,656 ratings — published 1953
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 313,685 ratings — published 2021
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 158,793 ratings — published 1959
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 394,005 ratings — published 1954
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 265,710 ratings — published 2024
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,651,715 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,140,234 ratings — published 2017
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 232,843 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,201 ratings — published 1953
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 111,216 ratings — published 1959
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,889 ratings — published 1959
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 155,057 ratings — published 1953
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,369 ratings — published 1957
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 291,731 ratings — published 2015
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,892 ratings — published 1951
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,715 ratings — published 1961
“(Charles) Laughton was one of the most pugnaciously morose men I had ever met. His huge talent seemed to endorse his implacable resentment. His Caliban self-portraiture must have been further agnozied by being incarcerated, like so many of his unhappy generation, in that closet which dared not speak its name. Even his large collection of Klees and Kokoshchkas was displayed as trophies of martyrdom rather than joyful plunder.”
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
“If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.”
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
