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Favorite Books from the 1950s

Description: Your favorite books written/published in the 1950s
Members: 2 participating members
ManWithAnAgenda, Julie_in_the_Library

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,083 members

418 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Margery Allingham

667 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

3

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,289 members

123 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

4

A Pocket Full of Rye

by Agatha Christie

3,508 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

5

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

7,829 members

178 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

6

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

4,455 members

90 reviews

3.8

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

7

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,098 members

113 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

8

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

by Agatha Christie

2,932 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

9

Hickory Dickory Dock

by Agatha Christie

3,082 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

10

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

2,670 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

11

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,350 members

168 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

12

After The Funeral

by Agatha Christie

3,785 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

13

Dead Man's Folly

by Agatha Christie

2,998 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

14

Last of the Curlews

by Fred Bodsworth

168 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

Cat Among the Pigeons

by Agatha Christie

4,007 members

79 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Julie_in_the_Library

16

by J. R. Ackerley

601 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Grace Metalious

1,644 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

67,794 members

1,061 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

19

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

9,894 members

219 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Muriel Spark

1,693 members

64 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

by Patrick Dennis

1,774 members

58 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Shirley Jackson

704 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,009 members

546 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

11,272 members

139 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,243 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Elizabeth Enright

2,402 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Ray Bradbury

7,325 members

181 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,004 members

425 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

8,078 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Bird's Nest

by Shirley Jackson

523 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,727 members

225 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien

49,201 members

449 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Chronicles of Narnia

34,501 members

302 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

About This List

Started: Julie_in_the_Library
January 8
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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