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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 — 1,291,669 ratings — published 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,069,106 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,984,162 ratings — published 1951
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.87 — 971,223 ratings — published 1955
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,840 ratings — published 1952
You Should Be So Lucky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,651 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 316,113 ratings — published 2024
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,351,337 ratings — published 2017
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,184 ratings — published 1961
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 286,416 ratings — published 1956
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 97,787 ratings — published 1970
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.95 — 244,817 ratings — published 1957
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 95,336 ratings — published 1961
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,753,996 ratings — published 1945
The Mad Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.86 — 149,626 ratings — published 2025
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,886 ratings — published 1958
The Easter Parade (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,196 ratings — published 1976
We Could Be So Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,751 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,874,338 ratings — published 2022
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.64 — 80,709 ratings — published 2019
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.60 — 235,421 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.61 — 457,301 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 — 3,537 ratings — published 1954
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 749,885 ratings — published 1966
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 73,807 ratings — published 2013
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 808,111 ratings — published 1998
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,724 ratings — published 1962
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,078,691 ratings — published 2009
The Stories of John Cheever (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,966 ratings — published 1978
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,359,871 ratings — published 1952
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.16 — 291,912 ratings — published 1950
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,517,263 ratings — published 1969
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,536 ratings — published 1955
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,953,857 ratings — published 1963
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.54 — 17,962 ratings — published 2026
Country Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 322 ratings — published 1947
Broken Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 679,744 ratings — published 2025
Keeper of Lost Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,525 ratings — published 2026
Quartet in Autumn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,817 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.66 — 460,297 ratings — published 2020
The Echo of Old Books (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 132,469 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 — 177 ratings — published 2009
Uncle Paul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.22 — 2,763 ratings — published 1959
Another Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,667 ratings — published 1962
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.25 — 144,022 ratings — published 2023
The Lost Summers of Newport (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 27,770 ratings — published 2022
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,729 ratings — published 1982
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 3.90 — 313,250 ratings — published 1962
The Spectacular (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mid-century)
avg rating 4.07 — 50,500 ratings — published 2023
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“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
