Reading in the 1950s
The Adventures of Augie March. Saul Bellow
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury
Anatomy of a Murder. Robert Traver
Andersonville. MacKinlay Kantor
The Arrangement. Elia Kazan
Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand
Auntie Mame. Patrick Dennis
Bang the Drum Slowly. Mark Harris
The Best of Everything. Rona Jaffe
Bonjour Tristesse. Francoise Sagan
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Truman Capote
The Bridge Over the River Kwai. Pierre Boulle
The Caine Mutiny. Herman Wouk
The Cat in the Hat. Dr. Seuss
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Tennessee Williams
The Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web. E.B. White
Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge
The Conservative Mind. Russell Kirk
A Death in the Family. James Agee
Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak
East of Eden. John Steinbeck
The Elements of Style. William Strunk and E.B. White
Eloise. Kay Thompson
Exodus. Leon Uris
Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury
From Here to Eternity. James Jones
From the Terrace. John O’Hara
Giant. Edna Ferber
Gift from the Sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gimpel the Fool. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Go Tell It On the Mountain. James Baldwin
Goldfinger. Ian Fleming
Hawaii. James Michener
Homage to Catalonia. George Orwell
Howl and Other Poems. Allen Ginsberg
Invisible Man. Ralph Ellison
Kids Say the Darndest Things! Art Linkletter
Kon-Tiki. Thor Heyerdahl
Little Bear.Else Minarik
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies. William Golding
The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien
Madeline’s Rescue. Ludwig Bemelmans
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Sloan Wilson
The Manchurian Candidate. Richard Condon
Marjorie Morningstar. Herman Wouk
The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury
Naked Lunch. William S. Burroughs
The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway
On the Beach. Nevil Shute
On The Road. Jack Kerouac
The Natural. Bernard Malamud
Peyton Place. Grace Metalious
The Power of Positive Thinking. Norman Vincent Peale
The Quiet American. Graham Greene
A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry
The Sea Around Us. Rachel L. Carson
Spartacus. Howard Fast
The Spirit of St. Louis. Charles A. Lindbergh
Starship Troopers. Robert Heinlein
The Tin Drum. Gunter Grass
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman
A Tree is Nice. Marc Simont
Waiting for Godot. Samuel Beckett
The Wapshot Chronicle. John Cheever
The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Elizabeth Speare
Witness. Whittaker Chambers