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Mid Century Books
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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,224,211 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,893,697 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,897,670 ratings — published 1951
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,644 ratings — published 1955
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,140 ratings — published 1952
You Should Be So Lucky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,856 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.29 — 256,029 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,106,312 ratings — published 2017
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 253,553 ratings — published 1956
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 91,315 ratings — published 1970
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,514 ratings — published 1961
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,559,936 ratings — published 1945
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,825 ratings — published 1958
We Could Be So Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,041 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,786,736 ratings — published 2022
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,421 ratings — published 2019
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.60 — 232,452 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,654 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 — 3,189 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 730,277 ratings — published 1966
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.11 — 794,173 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,375 ratings — published 1962
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,024,026 ratings — published 2009
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,314,733 ratings — published 1952
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 286,090 ratings — published 1950
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 240,228 ratings — published 1957
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484,628 ratings — published 1969
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,444 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,842,311 ratings — published 1953
The Mad Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,852 ratings — published 2025
Broken Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 455,221 ratings — published 2025
Quartet in Autumn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,334 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.66 — 442,975 ratings — published 2020
The Echo of Old Books (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 124,849 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 4.16 — 173 ratings — published 2009
The Easter Parade (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,756 ratings — published 1976
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,456 ratings — published 1962
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 134,964 ratings — published 2023
The Lost Summers of Newport (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 25,919 ratings — published 2022
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 296,302 ratings — published 1962
The Spectacular (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 47,102 ratings — published 2023
In a Summer Season (Virago Modern Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,190 ratings — published 1961
Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,319 ratings — published 2022
Star Dust (Fly Me to the Moon, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 664 ratings — published 2015
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,608 ratings — published 1951
The Tobacco Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,816 ratings — published 2022
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 312,127 ratings — published 2021
My Favorite Things: A Personal Guide to Decorating and Entertaining (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published
Madam, Will You Talk? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,433 ratings — published 1955
“Just a penis with a thesaurus”
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“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
