Literature of the 1950s

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Works of literature from the 1950s.

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• The 13 Clocks
• The 27th Day
• 633 Squadron (1956). Adapted into a more famous film in 1964.
• 87th Precinct. Series started in 1956.
• The Abandoned
• The Accursed Kings
• Advise & Consent
• After Dark, My Sweet
• After the Funeral
• Agent of Vega. Last new story published in 1951.
• Alas, Babylon
• Alexandria Quartet
• All-of-a-Kind Family
• "All Summer in a Day"
• "All the Troubles of the World"
• "—All You Zombies—"
• Anatole
• Andersonville
• Andromeda Nebula
• April Lady
• The Astronauts
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
• Auntie Mame
• "The Author's Ordeal"
• "Autofac"
• The Bad Seed
• The Ballad of the Sad Café
• Basil of Baker Street
• Bath Tangle
• The Beast Master
• The Beebo Brinker Chronicles series started in 1957.
• The Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction anthology series begun in 1952.
• Between Planets
• The Big Time
• Billy Liar
• The Birds
• The Blue-Nosed Witch
• The Blonde Cried Murder
• Bony series continued through the decade.
• Book of Imaginary Beings
• The Borrowers
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• "Breeds There a Man...?"
• A Brighter Sun
• Bring the Jubilee
• The Broken Sword
• The Caine Mutiny
• Cat Among the Pigeons
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Cat in the Hat
• The Caves of Steel
• "C-Chute"
• Change War. Series started in 1958.
• Charlotte's Web
• Cherry Ames
• Childe Cycle. Series started in 1959.
• Childhood's End
• The Chocolate Touch
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Chrysalids
• Cities in Flight
• Citizen of the Galaxy
• The City and the Stars
• "The Cold Equations"
• The Cone Gatherers
• Confessions of Felix Krull
• The Conformist
• ConSentiency series started in 1958.
• Consider Her Ways
• "The Corpse of Charlie Rull"
• Cotillion
• The Count of 9
• Crictor (1958)
• The Cruel Sea
• A Dance to the Music of Time. The series began in 1951.
• The Damned Yard
• Dancing Shoes
• Darkover series began in 1958.
• The Daughter of Time
• David and the Phoenix
• The Day of the Triffids
• Dead Man's Folly
• "The Dead Past"
• Death Has Three Lives
• A Death in the Family
• Death Is My Trade
• The Demolished Man
• Despoilers of the Golden Empire
• Destination Unknown of 1954.
• Detectives in Togas
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
• The Diary of a Young Girl
• Doctor Dan the Bandage Man
• Doctor Zhivago
• "Does A Bee Care?"
• The Dolphin Ring – first four novels published 1954-59.
• The Door into Summer
• Double Star
• The Doubtful Guest
• "Dreaming is a Private Thing"
• Dying Earth. First collection published in 1950.
• "The Dying Night"
• The Eagle of the Ninth
• Earth is Room Enough
• East of Eden
• Eden
• Ellen and Otis series
• Eloise
• The End of Eternity
• The End of the Affair
• The Enormous Egg
• "Entropy"
• "EPICAC"
• "The Evitable Conflict"
• A Fable
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Fall (1956)
• Farmer in the Sky
• Featherless Buzzards
• Federation of the Hub. The very first story in this setting appeared in 1953.
• "The Feeling of Power"
• Felse Investigates. The series started in 1951.
• "Feminine Intuition"
• Fire Engine By Mistake
• "First Law"
• The First World of If
• "Flies"
• Flower Drum Song
• Flying Saucers Have Landed
• ''The Fly"
• The Fog Horn
• Forbidden Valley
• Forest of Boland Light Railway. Part of the Little Grey Men series begun in 1942.
• Follow My Leader
• The Foundation Trilogy
  • Foundation (1951)
  • Foundation and Empire
  • Second Foundation
• "The Foundation of S.F. Success"
• 4:50 from Paddington
• Framed in Blood
• "Franchise"
• From Here to Eternity
• "The Fun They Had"
• "Galley Slave"
• "The Gentle Vultures"
• "Gimmicks Three"
• Giovanni's Room
• The Glass Bees
• The Go-Between
• Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again. Compilation of two novellas originally published in 1955.
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• "The Golden Phoenix"
• Goodbye, Columbus
• The Grand Sophy
• The Green Knowe Chronicles
• The Guns of Navarone
• Half Magic
• Happy Birthday to You!
• Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Harold Shea. Two stories in this intermittent series were written in The '50s.
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Have Spacesuit Will Travel
• "Hell-Fire (1956)"
• Henderson the Rain King
• Henry Huggins
• Henry Reed
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Human? (1954)
• Hoka. First story appeared in 1951.
• The Horse and His Boy
• Horton Hears a Who!
• "Hostess"
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• I Am Legend
• "Icarus Montgolfier Wright"
• If I Ran the Circus
• If I Ran the Zoo
• ''I Just Make Them Up, See!"
• "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda"
• "The Immortal Bard"
• Immortality, Inc.
• "In a Good Cause—"
• "Insert Knob A in Hole B"
• Inside The Space Ships
• Invisible Man
• I, Robot
• "It's a Good Life"
• "It's Such a Beautiful Day"
• James Bond. The novel series started in 1953.
  • Casino Royale
  • Live and Let Die
  • Moonraker
  • Diamonds Are Forever
  • From Russia with Love
  • Dr. No
  • Goldfinger
• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
• Jennings series began in 1950.
• "Joey: A 'Mechanical Boy'"
• "Jokester"
• Judge Dee. Series started in 1959.
• Karlsson on the Roof
• Katherine
• "Kid Stuff"
• Killing Time
• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
• The King Is Dead
• A Kiss Before Dying
• The Kraken Wakes
• Lady-In-Waiting
• "Lamb to the Slaughter"
• "The Landlady"
• The Languages of Pao
• The Last Battle
• The Last Hurrah
• "The Last Trump"
• The Legend of the Condor Heroes
• "Lenny"
• The Leopard
• "Let's Get Together"
• The Letters From Nicodemus
• Life Among the Savages
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Little Bear
• "Little Girl Lost"
• Little Man of Disneyland (1955)
• "Living Space"
• The Little Witch
• Lolita
• The Lonely Doll: the first book was released in 1957.
• The Long Goodbye
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Lovers
• "Lowlands"
• Lucky Jim
• Lucky Starr:
  • David Starr, Space Ranger
  • Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
  • Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus
  • Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
  • Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter
  • Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn
• Mad Hatter's Tea Party (1951)
• "The Man Who Came Early"
• The Magician's Nephew
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Mara, Daughter of the Nile
• Marianne Dreams
• The Martian Chronicles
• "The Martian Way"
• Med Ship
• "The Message"
• Mickey Mouse and His Spaceship (1952)
• The Midwich Cuckoos
• Miffy
• A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates
• Mine Were Of Trouble
• Mission of Gravity
• molesworth
• Moonraker
• "Mop-Up"
• More Than Human
• The Mouse That Roared
• Mr. Revere and I
• Mrs. McGinty's Dead
• Murder and the Wanton Bride
• Murder by the Book
• A Murder Is Announced
• My Cousin Rachel
• My Family and Other Animals
• My Father's Dragon series (started in 1950)
• My Side of the Mountain
• Naked Lunch
• The Naked Sun
• The Natural
• Night
• Nine Tomorrows
• "Nobody Here But—"
• Non-Stop
• The Nothing Equation
• Nurse Nancy
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Old Bugs (written decades earlier but not published until 1959)
• Old Yeller
• On the Beach
• On the Road
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
• One Night With Nora
• Operation Future
• Operation Massacre
• Ordeal by Innocence
• Our Man In Havana
• Outcast
• The Palm Wine Drinkard
• Pebble in the Sky
• Pedro Páramo
• The People
• Peyton Place
• Playback
• Pnin
• A Pocket Full of Rye
• Prince Caspian
• "Profession"
• Professor Mmaa's Lecture
• Psycho
• "The Psychohistorians"
• The Puppet Masters
• The Puppy Who Wanted A Boy
• The Quiet American
• The Quiet Gentleman
• "Rainbow Bridge"
• Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
• Ramona Quimby series started in 1955.
• The Recognitions
• "Rejection Slips"
• The Rescuers series started in 1959.
• The Return of the Condor Heroes
• Der Richter und sein Henker
• The Rider of the White Horse
• Rifles For Watie
• Ring for Jeeves
• Ripliad
• "Risk"
• Robots Have No Tails
• The Rolling Stones (1952)
• Rudolph Shines Again (1954)
• The Sack
• "Sam Hall"
• Scamp: The Adventures of a Little Puppy (1957)
• "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
• Scrambled Eggs Super!
• Sector General - first story published 1957.
• Seize the Day
• A Separate Peace
• The Sherwood Ring
• She Woke to Darkness
• S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy
• The Silver Branch
• The Silver Brumby
• The Silver Chair
• Silver John series started in 1951.
• Simon
• Simon Ark
• The Sirens of Titan
• Sleeping Beauty and the Good Fairies (1958)
• Slime (1953)
• The Small Rain
• The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades First edition in 1957.
• Solar Queen series started in 1955.
• "Someday"
• "A Sound of Thunder"
• The Sound of Waves
• The Space Merchants
• "Spell My Name with an S"
• Sprig Muslin
• The Star Beast
• The Star Diaries. First edition in 1957.
• Starman Jones
• Starship Troopers
• The Stars, Like Dust
• The Stars My Destination
• The Story of O
• Stranger in Town
• Strangers on a Train
• "Strikebreaker"
• Suspicion
• Sword of Honour
• Sylvester
• Tales from the White Hart
• Technic History. Series started in 1952.
• Terror Is My Trade
• "There Shall Be No Darkness"
• "There Will Come Soft Rains"
• They Came to Baghdad
• They Do It With Mirrors
• Things Fall Apart
• This Is It, Michael Shayne
• Till We Have Faces
• Time for the Stars
• Time Out of Joint
• Time Patrol. Series started in 1955.
• The Time Traders. Series started in 1958.
• The Tin Drum
• To Sir, with Love
• Tomorrow, the Stars
• The Town
• A Town Like Alice
• Treasures Of The Snow
• Tunnel in the Sky
• "The Ugly Little Boy"
• Under the Net
• The Unknown Ajax
• The Unknown Soldier
• "Unto the Fourth Generation"
• "The Up-to-Date Sorcerer"
• The Veldt
• The Pledge
• Venetia
• The Viking
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Voyage of the Space Beagle
• Warrior Scarlet
• Wasp (1957)
• The Watery Place
• What If— (1952)
• When Dorinda Dances
• When The Robbers Came To Cardamom Town
• Wise Blood
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Words of Science and the History Behind Them
• A World Called Maanerek
• Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

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