Excellent Women
Novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952, her second published novel and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.
1950s
Ill Met By Moonlight
Non-fiction partly-autobiographical book written by W. Stanley Moss, a British soldier, writer and traveller
Lolita
1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov
Mystery Train
Song written and recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Originally performed in the style of a Memphis blues or rhythm and blues tune, it was inspired by earlier songs and later became a popular rockabilly song, as first covered by Elvis Presley, then numerous others.
Cider with Rosie
1959 book by Laurie Lee . It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War . It has sold over six million copies worldwide
Two Sought Adventure
1957 collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Fritz Leiber
The Grass Is Singing
First novel, published in 1950, by the British author Doris Lessing
Tristes Tropiques
Memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lvi-Strauss
On the Road
1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States