1950s Reading Suggestions for Adults and Teens
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Reading suggestions
Fiction
The Ugly American
by: William Lederer
F L473u
On The Road
by: Jack Kerouac
F K395o
Invisible Man
by: Ralph Ellison
F ELLI
Peyton Place
by: Grace Metalious
F M5875p
Advise and Consent
by: Allen Drury
F D796a
Hawaii
by: James Michener
F M6235h
My Cousin Rachel
by: Daphne du Maurier
LP F D8866m2
The Silver Chalice
by: Thomas Costain
F C837si
Sweet Thursday
by: John Steinbeck
F S8195sw
The End of the Affair
by: Graham Greene
F G799e
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by: Patricia Highsmith
FM H6382t
Flowers for Algernon
by: Daniel Keyes
F KEYE
The Quiet American
by: Graham Greene
F G799q
From Here to Eternity
by: James Jones
F J778f
The Caine Mutiny
by: Herman Wouk
F W938ca2
Giant
by: Edna Ferber
F F346gi
The Catcher in the Rye
by: J. D. Salinger
F S165c
Fahrenheit 451
by: Ray Bradbury
FS B798fa
Lolita
by: Vladimir Nabokov
F N117o2
East of Eden
by: John Steinbeck
F S8195e
The Old Man and the Sea
by: Ernest Hemingway
F H4883o
A Separate Peace
by: John Knowles
F K735s
Doctor Zhivago
by: Boris Pasternak
F P291d2
Casino Royale
by: Ian Fleming
F F5975c
Catch 22
by: Joseph Heller
F HELL
Non­fiction
Brothers At War: The Unending Conflict in Korea
by: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
951.904 J24
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea
by: J. Lawton Collins
951.9 C71
Korea: The First War We Lost
by: Bevin Alexander
951.9 A37
The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin: An Oral History
by: Donald Knox
951.9 K74a
The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare From the Korean War
by: Charles J. Hanley
951.904 H24
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent
His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, To the Electric Chair
by: Sam Roberts
345.73 R64
One of Our H­Bombs is Missing
by: Flora Lewis
946.082 L67
Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle To Save The World
by: Evan Thomas
973.921 T45
Eisenhower: The White House Years
by: Jim Newton
B E36n
The DNA Detectives: How the Double Helix is Solving Puzzles of the Past
by: Anna Meyer
572.8 M61
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by: James D. Watson
547.59b W33
Many Are The Crimes: McCarthyism in America
by: Ellen Schrecker
973.9 S37
The St. Lawrence
by: William Toye
971.4 T75
Ay, Cuba! A Socio­Erotic Journey
by: Andrei Codrescu
972.91 C67
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s
Central High
by: Melba Beals
370.19342 B36
Disney’s Dream Weavers: The Visionaries Who Shaped Disneyland, Freedomland,
The New York World’s Fair, and Walt Disney World and the Ties That Bind Them
by: Chuck Schmidt
725.76 S34
Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
by: A.A. Fursenko
327.47 F99
MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U­2 Affair
by: Michael R. Beschloss, Michael
973.921 B55
Young Adult Fiction
The Fellowship of the Ring
by: J.R.R. Tolkien
YA F T6514fe
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
by: C. S. Lewis
YA F LEWI
The Catcher in the Rye
by: J.D. Salinger
YA F S165c
Fahrenheit 451
by: Ray Bradbury
YA PB BRAD
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by: Elizabeth George Speare
YA F S7416w
Camilla; a novel
by: Madeleine L’Engle
YA F L566c
Devil on My Heels
by: Joyce McDonald
YA F M4783642d
Fire from the Rock
by: Sharon M. Draper
YA F D766fi
Bone by Bone by Bone
by: Tony Johnston
YA F J7345bo
Mister Death’s Blue­eyed Girls
by: Mary Downing Hahn
YA F HAHN
Young Adult Non­fiction
A Cultural History of the United States: The 1950’s
by: Stuart A. Kallen
YA 973.9 C96h5
Harry S. Truman
by: Laura K. Egendorf (editor)
YA 973.918 H32
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
by: Peter Sis
YA 973.704 S62