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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 — 1,243,015 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,941,850 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,920,525 ratings — published 1951
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,737 ratings — published 1955
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,230 ratings — published 1952
You Should Be So Lucky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,600 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 275,616 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,172,938 ratings — published 2017
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 262,524 ratings — published 1956
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 92,917 ratings — published 1970
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 93,936 ratings — published 1961
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,612,924 ratings — published 1945
The Mad Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 61,294 ratings — published 2025
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,929 ratings — published 1958
We Could Be So Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,021 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,812,238 ratings — published 2022
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,097 ratings — published 2019
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.60 — 233,255 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,061 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 — 3,261 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 735,777 ratings — published 1966
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.11 — 797,691 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 775,383 ratings — published 1962
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,038,901 ratings — published 2009
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.69 — 61,669 ratings — published 1961
The Stories of John Cheever (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,823 ratings — published 1978
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,326,761 ratings — published 1952
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 287,692 ratings — published 1950
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 241,431 ratings — published 1957
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,188 ratings — published 1969
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,425 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,873,305 ratings — published 1953
Broken Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 524,540 ratings — published 2025
Quartet in Autumn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,421 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.66 — 447,755 ratings — published 2020
The Echo of Old Books (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 126,855 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 — 174 ratings — published 2009
The Easter Parade (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,832 ratings — published 1976
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,031 ratings — published 1962
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 137,671 ratings — published 2023
The Lost Summers of Newport (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 26,311 ratings — published 2022
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,134 ratings — published 1982
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,832 ratings — published 1962
The Spectacular (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.08 — 48,274 ratings — published 2023
In a Summer Season (Virago Modern Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,196 ratings — published 1961
Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,497 ratings — published 2022
Star Dust (Fly Me to the Moon, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 666 ratings — published 2015
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,181 ratings — published 1951
The Tobacco Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 27,207 ratings — published 2022
“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
