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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,331,880 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,159,180 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,031,711 ratings — published 1951
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 985,177 ratings — published 1955
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 311,298 ratings — published 1956
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,633 ratings — published 1952
You Should Be So Lucky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,805 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 339,877 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,488,909 ratings — published 2017
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.69 — 64,464 ratings — published 1961
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,048 ratings — published 1962
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 101,279 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.95 — 247,399 ratings — published 1957
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 96,224 ratings — published 1961
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,852,467 ratings — published 1945
The Mad Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 215,972 ratings — published 2025
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 258,258 ratings — published 1958
Keeper of Lost Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.43 — 50,861 ratings — published 2026
The Easter Parade (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,398 ratings — published 1976
We Could Be So Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,393 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,921,071 ratings — published 2022
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.21 — 329,370 ratings — published 2021
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.64 — 81,685 ratings — published 2019
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.60 — 237,156 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,312 ratings — published 1957
The 1950s Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 57 ratings — published 2011
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,733 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 761,056 ratings — published 1966
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 74,661 ratings — published 2013
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,215 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 796,092 ratings — published 1962
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,110,622 ratings — published 2009
The Stories of John Cheever (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,052 ratings — published 1978
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,386,970 ratings — published 1952
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 295,322 ratings — published 1950
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,550,226 ratings — published 1942
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535,709 ratings — published 1969
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 76,170 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,016,408 ratings — published 1963
The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,092 ratings — published 1930
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,073 ratings — published 2026
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.52 — 26,274 ratings — published 2026
The Constant Nymph (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.63 — 913 ratings — published 1924
Country Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 346 ratings — published 1947
Broken Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 759,875 ratings — published 2025
Tangerine (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.21 — 35,304 ratings — published 2018
Quartet in Autumn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,113 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.66 — 475,463 ratings — published 2020
The Echo of Old Books (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 135,360 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 4.18 — 176 ratings — published 2009
“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
“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
