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U.S. Books of the 1950s

Popular, influential or award-winning American books published in the 1950s. Readers at the time in the US would have known of all of these, probably.
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Act One (Moss Hart)
Act One
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Moss Hart
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
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Saul Bellow
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
3
Ayn Rand
The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
The Caine Mutiny
4
Herman Wouk
The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss)
The Cat in the Hat
5
Dr. Seuss
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Williams
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
7
J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web
8
E.B. White
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
9
Wallace Stevens
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible
10
Arthur Miller
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
A Death in the Family
11
James Agee
Eloise (Kay Thompson)
Eloise
12
Kay Thompson
A Fable (William Faulkner)
A Fable
13
William Faulkner
Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Farenheit 451
14
Ray Bradbury
From Here to Eternity (James Jones)
From Here to Eternity
15
James Jones
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room
16
James Baldwin
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
17
Flannery O'Connor
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
The Haunting of Hill House
18
Shirley Jackson
Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow)
Henderson the Rain King
19
Saul Bellow
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
20
Allen Ginsberg
The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt)
The Human Condition
21
Hannah Arendt
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
22
Ralph Ellison
J.B. (Archibald MacLeish)
J.B.
23
Archibald MacLeish
James Joyce (Richard Ellmann)
James Joyce
24
Richard Ellmann
The Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson)
The Killer Inside Me
25
Jim Thompson
The Lion and the Throne (Catherine Drinker Bowen)
The Lion and the Throne
26
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
27
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lonely Crowd (David Riesman)
The Lonely Crowd
28
David Riesman
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
29
Eugene O'Neill
The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
The Magic Barrel
30
Bernard Malamud
More Than Human (Theodore Sturgeon)
More Than Human
31
Theodore Sturgeon
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
32
William S. Burroughs
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
33
Ernest Hemingway
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
34
Jack Kerouac
Picnic (William Inge)
Picnic
35
William Inge
Pictures From an Institution (Randall Jarrell)
Pictures From an Institution
36
Randall Jarrell
Poems - North & South (Elizabeth Bishop)
Poems - North & South
37
Elizabeth Bishop
Pogo (Walt Kelly)
Pogo
38
Walt Kelly
Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage
39
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
A Raisin in the Sun
40
Lorraine Hansberry
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