Birth Year: 1950

1950

Fiction by Well-Known Writers:

The Wall, John Hersey

A number of lesser novels by big-name writers were published in 1950, including: John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, Evelyn Waugh, Gore Vidal, MacKinlay Kantor, Pearl S. Buck, and Ernest Hemingway's dreadful, Across the River and Into the Trees

A pair of sci-fi classics:

         I, Robot, Isaac Asimov [short stories, linked after original magazine publication]

        The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Two kid-lit classics:

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

                      [first book of The Chronicles of Narnia]

         Henry Huggins, Beverly Cleary [first in Henry Huggins series]

Mysteries by Ross Macdonald, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr,

                  Ellery Queen, and others

A pulp classic by Kathleen Winsor [author of the banned Forever Amber]:

                  Star Money

My List:

The Sea Wall, Marguerite Duras

The Drinker, Hans Fallada [written 1944, published posthumously]*

Collected Stories of William Faulkner [stories], William Faulkner

Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith

     The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing*

Gormenghast [Gormenghast trilogy #2], Mervyn Peake [Titus Groan (1946) should be read first]   

A Town Like Alice [U.S. title, The Legacy], Nevil Shute

     The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Tennessee Williams

[*I haven't read]