postwarlit1946-59

[postwarlit1946-59]

1959

Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King

William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint

Shusaku Endo - Wonderful Fool

Ian Fleming - Goldfinger

William Golding - Free Fall

Günter Grass - The Tin Drum

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House

Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie

Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

Norman Mailer - Advertisements for Myself

Henry Miller - Nexus

Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone

Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Raymond Queneau - Zazie in the Metro

Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus

Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day

Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar

[postwarlit1946-59]

1958

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition

H.E. Bates - The Darling Buds of May

Samuel Beckett - The Unnamable

Brendan Behan - Borstal Boy

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Marguerite Duras - Moderato Cantabile

Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar

Lawrence Durrell - Mount Olive

Ian Fleming - Dr No

Robert Frank - The Americans

Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana

Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard

Claude Lévi-Strauss - Structural Anthropology

Kenzaburō Ōe - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Terry Southern - Candy

Leon Uris - Exodus

T.H. White - The Once and Future King

[postwarlit1946-59]

1957

Roland Barthes - Mythologies

Jorge Luis Borges - Book of Imaginary Beings

John Braine - Room at the Top

Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Castle to Castle

John Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle

Lawrence Durrell - Justine

Lawrence Durrell - Bitter Lemons

Shusaku Endo - The Sea and Poison

Ian Fleming - From Russia with Love

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

Alistair MacLean - The Guns of Navarone

Henry Miller - Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

Alain Robbe-Grillet - Jealousy

Nevil Shute - On the Beach

Alan Watts - The Way of Zen

Patrick White - Voss

John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos

[postwarlit1946-59]

1956

Nelson Algren – A Walk on the Wild Side

James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room

Sybille Bedford – A Legacy

Saul Bellow – Seize the Day

Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination

Italo Calvino – Italian Folktales

Albert Camus – The Fall

Alfred Döblin – Tales of a Long Night

Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals

Ian Fleming – Diamonds are Forever

Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving

Allen Ginsberg – Howl and Other Poems

William Golding – Pincher Martin

Billie Holiday – Lady Sings the Blues

Naguib Mahfouz – Palace Walk

Norman Mailer – The White Negro

Yukio Mishima – The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Lobsang Rampa – The Third Eye

Françoise Sagan – A Certain Smile

Colin Wilson – The Outsider

[postwarlit1946-59]

1955

James Baldwin – Notes of a Native Son

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – The Phenomenon of Man

J.P. Donleavy – The Ginger Man

Jack Finney – The Bodysnatchers

William Gaddis – The Recognitions

William Golding – The Inheritors

Graham Greene – The Quiet American

Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr Ripley

Nikos KazantzakisvThe Last Temptation of Christ

Yaşar Kemal – Memed, My Hawk

Norman Mailer – The Deer Park

Brian Moore – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Flannery O’Connor – A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

John O’Hara – Ten North Frederick

Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Hustlers

Alain Robbe-Grillet – The Voyeur

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Return of the King

Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

Patrick White – The Tree of Man

John Wyndham – The Chrysalids

[postwarlit1946-59]

1954

Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim

Simone de Beauvoir – The Mandarins

Robertson Davies – Leaven of Malice

Ian Fleming – Live and Let Die

Max Frisch – I'm Not Stiller

William Golding – Lord of the Flies

Yasunari Kawabata – The Sound of the Mountain

Ira Levin – A Kiss Before Dying

Thomas Mann - Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Richard Matheson – I Am Legend

Yukio Mishima – The Sound of Waves

Iris Murdoch – Under the Net

Pauline Réage – Story of O

Lillian Roth – I’ll Cry Tomorrow

Françoise Sagan – Bonjour Tristesse

John Steinbeck – Sweet Thursday

J. R. R. Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring

J. R. R. Tolkien – The Two Towers

Amos Tutuola – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Gore Vidal – Messiah

[postwarlit1946-59]

1953

Isaac Asimov – Second Foundation

James Baldwin – Go Tell It On the Mountain

Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March

Alfred Bester – The Demolished Man

Leigh Brackett – The Sword Of Rhiannon

Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

William Burroughs – Junkie

Alejo Carpentier – The Lost Steps

Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye

Arthur C. Clarke – Childhood’s End

Ian Fleming – Casino Royale

L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between

Shirley Jackson – Life Among the Savages

Nikos Kazantzakis – The Last Temptation

Henry Miller – Plexus

Ward Moore – Bring the Jubilee

Theodore Sturgeon – More Than Human

Boris Vian – Heartsnatcher

Ludwig Wittgenstein – Philosophical Investigations

John Wyndham – The Kraken Wakes

[postwarlit1946-59]

1952

Isaac Asimov – Foundation and Empire

Pierre Boulle – The Bridge over the River Kwai

Ivan Bunin – The Life of Arseniev

Italo Calvino – The Cloven Viscount

Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Fable for Another Time

Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man

Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea

Aldous Huxley – The Devils of Loudun

Doris Lessing – Martha Quest

C.S. Lewis – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Bernard Malamud – The Natural

Henry Miller – The Books in My Life

Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood

Anthony Powell – A Buyer’s Market

Jean-Paul Sartre – Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr

John Steinbeck – East of Eden

Jim Thompson – The Killer Inside Me

Sakae Tsuboi – Twenty-Four Eyes

Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Kurt Vonnegut – Player Piano

[postwarlit1946-59]

1951

Isaac Asimov – Foundation

Samuel Beckett – Molloy

Truman Capote – The Grass Harp

Camilo José Cela – The Hive

Julio Cortázar – Bestiario

Robertson Davies – Tempest-Tost

Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Suspicion

Julien Gracq – The Opposing Shore

Graham Greene – The End of the Affair

James Jones – From Here to Eternity

Yasunari Kawabata – The Master of Go

C.S. Lewis – Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

Nicholas Monsarrat – The Cruel Sea

Alberto Moravia – The Conformist

Anthony Powell – A Question of Upbringing

J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye

William Styron – Lie Down in Darkness

Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny

John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids

Marguerite Yourcenar – Memoirs of Hadrian

[postwarlit1946-59]

1950

Isaac Asimov – I, Robot

James Barr – Quatrefoil

Georges Bataille – L'Abbé C

Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles

William Cooper – Scenes from Provincial Life

Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Judge and His Hangman 

Frank Hardy – Power Without Glory

Ernest Hemingway – Across the River and Into the Trees

Patricia Highsmith – Strangers on a Train

Yasushi Inoue – The Bullfight

Pär Lagerkvist – Barabbas

Doris Lessing – The Grass Is Singing

C. S. Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Cesare Pavese – The Moon and the Bonfire

Octavio Paz – The Labyrinth of Solitude

Mervyn Peake – Gormenghast

Budd Schulberg – The Disenchanted

Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice

Pramoedya Ananta Toer – The Fugitive

Boris Vian – Red Grass

[postwarlit1946-59]

1949

Nelson Algren – The Man with the Golden Arm

Miguel Ángel Asturias – Men of Maize

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Heinrich Böll –  The Train Was On Time

Jorge Luis Borges – The Aleph and Other Stories

Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky

Italo Calvino – The Crow Comes Last

Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal

Graham Greene – The Third Man

Knut Hamsun – On Overgrown Paths

Curzio Malaparte – The Skin

Henry Miller – Sexus

Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask

Nancy Mitford – Love in a Cold Climate

George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four

Ruth Park – Poor Man’s Orange

Gilbert Ryle – The Concept of Mind

Jean-Paul Sartre – Iron In The Soul

George R. Stewart – Earth Abides

[postwarlit1946-59]

1948

Elizabeth Bowen – The Heat of the Day

Truman Capote – Other Voices, Other Rooms

Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human

William Faulkner – Intruder in the Dust

Jean Genet – Funeral Rites

Robert Graves – The White Goddess

Henry Green – Concluding

Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter

Giovannino Guareschi – The Little World of Don Camillo

Hella Haasse – The Black Lake

Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead

Thomas Mann – Joseph and His Brothers

Leopoldo Marechal – Adam Buenosayres

Ruth Park – The Harp in the South

Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country

Nevil Shute – No Highway

Junichiro Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters

Gore Vidal – The City and the Pillar

Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One

Patrick White – The Aunt’s Story

[postwarlit1946-59]

1947

Saul Bellow – The Victim

Cleanth Brooks - The Well Wrought Urn

John Horne Burns – The Gallery

Italo Calvino – The Path to the Spider’s Nest

Albert Camus – The Plague

Osamu Dazai – The Setting Sun

Hans Fallada – Every Man Dies Alone

Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl

Jean Genet – Querelle of Brest

Anna Kavan – The House of Sleep

Primo Levi – If This Is a Man

Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano

Naguib Mahfouz – Midaq Alley

Thomas Mann – Doctor Faustus

James A. Michener – Tales of the South Pacific

Alberto Moravia – The Woman of Rome

Vladimir Nabokov – Bend Sinister

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen – Diary of a Man in Despair

John Steinbeck – The Pearl

Boris Vian – Froth on the Daydream

[postwarlit1946-59]

1946

Miguel Ángel Asturias – The President

Simone de Beauvoir – All Men are Mortal

Ruth Benedict - The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Pearl S. Buck - Pavilion of Women

Ivan Bunin – Dark Avenues

Blaise Cendrars – Lice

Stig Dagerman – Island of the Doomed

Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning

Jean Genet – Miracle of the Rose    

Henry Green – Back

William Lindsay Gresham – Nightmare Alley

John Hersey - Hiroshima

Nikos Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek

Arthur Koestler – Thieves in the Night

Carson McCullers – The Member of the Wedding

Mervyn Peake – Titus Groan

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism Is a Humanism

Boris Vian - I Spit on Your Graves

Eudora Welty – Delta Wedding

Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi