346 books
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26 voters
1950s Books
Showing 1-50 of 12,231
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,947,743 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,907,087 ratings — published 1953
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,250,764 ratings — published 1954
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,494 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,340,105 ratings — published 1952
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.81 — 407,191 ratings — published 1959
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,195,432 ratings — published 1954
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.34 — 271,611 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,673 ratings — published 1957
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,187,259 ratings — published 1950
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,044 ratings — published 1958
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.45 — 667,480 ratings — published 1952
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 127 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,151,302 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 123 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,063,798 ratings — published 1955
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,073,767 ratings — published 1952
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,341 ratings — published 1952
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,117 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 — 180,324 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.17 — 605,127 ratings — published 1951
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,242 ratings — published 1956
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.61 — 470,283 ratings — published 1953
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,513 ratings — published 1951
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.95 — 122,560 ratings — published 1955
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.16 — 289,464 ratings — published 1950
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.66 — 452,861 ratings — published 2020
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,265 ratings — published 1955
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,162 ratings — published 1951
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 81 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 617,297 ratings — published 1955
The Price of Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.02 — 86,718 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 76 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.21 — 384,262 ratings — published 1950
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 294,563 ratings — published 2024
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 74 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.54 — 739,777 ratings — published 1959
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,837,777 ratings — published 2022
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.75 — 164,479 ratings — published 2009
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.09 — 513,704 ratings — published 1952
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,663 ratings — published 1953
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.15 — 160,732 ratings — published 1959
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,608 ratings — published 1959
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.22 — 318,994 ratings — published 2021
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,239,523 ratings — published 2017
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 68 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.91 — 398,487 ratings — published 1954
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.60 — 234,148 ratings — published 1959
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 66 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,800 ratings — published 1953
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,704,845 ratings — published 2018
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.85 — 112,963 ratings — published 1959
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.05 — 156,526 ratings — published 1954
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 3.31 — 293,571 ratings — published 2015
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,238 ratings — published 1957
Nine Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,257 ratings — published 1948
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as 1950s)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,899 ratings — published 1951
“A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“A real moonlight serenade under the stars. Say what you want about me, but I am romantic.”
― Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
― Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick












