(STORIES PUBLISHED DURING THE 1950s WITH TALES ABOUT THE CULTURE OF THAT DECADE, OR HAVING SETTINGS JUST BEFORE, OR AFTER THAT TIME; INCLUDING FICTION AND NON-FICTION, PLUS SOME IMAGINARY FICTION ABOUT POSSIBLE FUTURES)
A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute (1950)
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE by C. S. Lewis (1950)
MY COUSIN RACHEL by Daphne DuMurier (1951)
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL by Anne Frank (1952)
EAST OF EDEN by John Steinbeck (1952)
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway 1952)
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison (1952)
FAHRENEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (1953)
CASINO ROYAL by Ian Fleming (1953)
TWELVE ANGRY MEN by Reginald Rose (1954)
MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR by Herman Wouk (1955)
PEYTON PLACE by Grace Metallious (1956)
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (1957)
DR. ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak (1957) (of Russia at the time of WW I and the Communist Take-Over of that Time)
THE RIVER WE REMEMBER by Willaim Kent Kruger
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles / 592 pga / 1023 / $11.73
In 1954, an 18 year old is released from prison after doing time for involutary manslaughter. He is driven home to a foreclosed family farm. He aims to pick up his younger brother and take him to California to start a new life. However, two escaped prisons hiding in his car force the boys to go to New York. Bill Gates, reviewing the book, says the author takes inspiration from famous heroes’ journeys, including The Iliad,The Odyssey,Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.”
THIS BOY: THE EARLY LIVES OF JOHN LENNON AND PAUL MCCARTNEY by Ilene Cooper (of 2 boys who would become members of the Beatles singing group, from their childhoods then up to the time of their debut in the U.S.)
WILLIAM SHATNER: A GOLDEN BOOK BIOGRAPHY
DR SALK: A GOLDEN BOOK BIOGRAPHY
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