Literary Clock

1955 to 1960

• 1955: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• 1955: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• 1955: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• 1955: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1955: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger
• 1955: Three Trumps: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus by Rex Stout
• 1955: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1955: Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
• 1956: The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison
• 1956: Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
• 1956: Gale Force by Elleston Trevor
• 1957: 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
• 1957: From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
• 1957: They Hanged My Saintly Billy: The Life and Death of Dr. William Palmer by Robert Graves
• 1957: Parkinson's Law by C. Northcote Parkinson
• 1958: Molloy by Samuel Beckett
• 1958: Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene
• 1958: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• 1958: Killer's Wedge by Ed McBain
• 1958: A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
• 1958: The Getaway by Jim Thompson
• 1959: The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci by Charlotte Armstrong
• 1959: Scandal at High Chimneys by John Dickson Carr
• 1959: Snopes by William Faulkner
• 1959: The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
• 1959: The Plot Against Earth by Robert Silverberg

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