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Mid Century Books
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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,272,379 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,017,724 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,959,510 ratings — published 1951
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 964,929 ratings — published 1955
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,882 ratings — published 1952
You Should Be So Lucky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,860 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 302,213 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,270,175 ratings — published 2017
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 275,751 ratings — published 1956
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 95,646 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 243,469 ratings — published 1957
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 94,826 ratings — published 1961
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,694,360 ratings — published 1945
The Mad Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,350 ratings — published 2025
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,670 ratings — published 1958
We Could Be So Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,619 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,848,931 ratings — published 2022
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.64 — 80,095 ratings — published 2019
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.60 — 234,578 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 454,911 ratings — published 1957
The 1950s Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 55 ratings — published 2011
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,430 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 744,753 ratings — published 1966
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 73,225 ratings — published 2013
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.11 — 803,700 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 783,310 ratings — published 1962
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,061,687 ratings — published 2009
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.69 — 62,542 ratings — published 1961
The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,917 ratings — published 1978
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,346,500 ratings — published 1952
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 290,279 ratings — published 1950
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,507,639 ratings — published 1969
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,699 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,922,595 ratings — published 1963
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.56 — 12,111 ratings — published 2026
Country Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 318 ratings — published 1947
Broken Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 625,254 ratings — published 2025
Keeper of Lost Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.45 — 25,801 ratings — published 2026
Quartet in Autumn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,661 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.66 — 455,224 ratings — published 2020
The Echo of Old Books (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 130,623 ratings — published 2023
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream #7)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 175 ratings — published 2009
The Easter Parade (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,046 ratings — published 1976
Uncle Paul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.21 — 2,721 ratings — published 1959
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,999 ratings — published 1962
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 141,721 ratings — published 2023
The Lost Summers of Newport (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 27,056 ratings — published 2022
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,504 ratings — published 1982
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,256 ratings — published 1962
The Spectacular (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 49,722 ratings — published 2023
“I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is. (pg. 182)”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“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.”
― They Call Her Dirty Sally
― They Call Her Dirty Sally
