The 1950s

36 works · 129 editions first published in the 1950s. A work's decade is its earliest known publication year. All decades →

Cover	Title	Author	Years	Editions	Systems
	The Aeneid	Virgil	1958–2025	27 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The old man and the sea	Hemingway, Ernest	1952–2022	11 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The return of the king : being the third part of the Lord of the Rings	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)	1955–2012	10 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The two towers: being the second part of The lord of the rings	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)	1954–2012	8 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	A farewell to arms : the Hemingway Library edition	Hemingway, Ernest	1957–2025	7 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Siddhartha : an Indian tale	Hesse, Hermann	1951–2020	6 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Jacob's room	Woolf, Virginia	1950–2008	5 editions	NYPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The martian chronicles	Bradbury, Ray	1958–2011	5 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Things fall apart	Achebe, Chinua	1958–2013	5 editions	NYPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Quo Vadis	Sienkiewicz, Henryk	1959–2013	4 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett	1956–2011	4 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Kristin Lavransdatter	Sigrid Undset	1951–2005	3 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Mordecai Richler	1959–2001	3 editions	NYPL · BPL
	A murder is announced : a Miss Marple mystery	Christie, Agatha	1950–2006	2 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Barabbas	Pär Lagerkvist	1951–1989	2 editions	NYPL · BPL
	Endgame : a play in one act ; followed by Act without words I : a mime for one player	Samuel Beckett	1958–2009	2 editions	NYPL · BPL
	L'exil et le royaume	Albert Camus	1957	2 editions	NYPL · BPL
	La familia de Pascual Duarte	Cela, Camilo José	1955–1997	2 editions	availability not checked for QPL
	Murphy	Beckett, Samuel	1957–2010	2 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	They do it with mirrors : a Miss Marple mystery	Christie, Agatha	1952–2001	2 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Watt	Samuel Beckett	1959–2009	2 editions	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	A pocket full of rye : a Miss Marple mystery	Christie, Agatha	1953	1	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Complete short stories.	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	1959	1	BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Destination unknown	Christie, Agatha	1955	1	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Endgame, a play in one act, followed by Act without words, a mime for one player.	Beckett, Samuel	1958	1	NYPL · availability not checked for QPL
	Howl, and other poems	Allen Ginsberg	1959	1	NYPL · BPL
	Ihōjin	Albert Camus	1954	1	NYPL · BPL
	My life in the Bush of Ghosts	Tutuola, Amos	1954	1	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	No exit	Sartre, Jean-Paul	1958	1	NYPL · availability not checked for QPL
	No longer human	Osamu Dazai	1958	1	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The papers of Benjamin Franklin.	Franklin, Benjamin	1959	1	availability not checked for QPL
	The road to Wigan Pier	Orwell, George	1958	1	NYPL · BPL · availability not checked for QPL
	The sibyl	Pär Lagerkvist	1958	1	NYPL · BPL
	Tous ceux qui tombent : pièce radiophonique	Beckett, Samuel	1957	1	availability not checked for QPL
	Women of Trachis,	Sophocles	1957	1	availability not checked for QPL
	Édentől keletre	John Steinbeck	1952	1	BPL