A Century of Books VI
By the Decade: 1950-1959

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

1950:

The Town, Conrad Richter

1951:

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom,” William F. Buckley
378 BUC

The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II, Herman Wouk

1952:

Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis 
230 LEW

The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham

The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

1953:

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, Black Elk 
299.724 BLA

Picnic (in 4 Plays by William Inge), William Inge 
812.54 ING

Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Casino Royale, Ian Fleming

A Kiss Before Dying, Ira Levin

The Bridges at Toko-ri, James A. Michener

1954:

Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

The Dollmaker, Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow

A Fable, William Faulkner

The Lord of the Flies, William Golding

The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima

The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien

1955:

Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh 
170.82 LIN

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor

H. M. S. Ulysses, Alistair MacLean

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

1956:

Look Back in Anger, John Osborne 
822.914 OSB

The Balcony, Jean Genet 
842.914 GEN

Night, Elie Wiesel
940.5318  WIE

Dead Man's Folly, Agatha Christie

1957:

The Miracle Worker: A Play for Television, William Gibson 
812.54 GIB

A Death in the Family, James Agee

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver

Exodus, Leon Uris

1958:

A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti 
811.54 FER

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories, Truman Capote

1959:

Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

Advise and Consent, Allen Drury

Goldfinger, Ian Fleming

St. Charles Public Library

JHL 4/06