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Books 1940 to 1954 Flashcards

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Native Son

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Richard Wright
[US]
1940

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The Tartar Steppe

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Dino Buzzati
[Italy]
1940

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The Power and the Glory

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Graham Greene
[England]
1940

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1940
[NPL 1954]

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The Man Who Loved Children

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Christina Stead
[Australia]
1940

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Broad and Alien is the World

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Ciro Alegria
[Peru]
1941

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The Living and the Dead

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Patrick White
[England]
1941
[NPL 1973]

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The Harvesters

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Cesare Pavese
[Italy]
1941

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Conversations in Sicily

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Elio Vittorini
[Italy]
1941

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The Outsider (The Stranger)

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Albert Camus
[Algeria]
1942

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Embers

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Sandor Marai
[Hungary]
1942

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12
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Chess Story

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Stefan Zweig
[Austria]
1942

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The Glass Bead Game

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Hermann Hesse
[Germany]
1943

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14
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Joseph and His Brothers

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Thomas Mann
[Germany]
1943

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The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
[France]
1943

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Dangling Man

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Saul Bellow
[Canada]
1944
[NPL 1976]

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The Razor’s Edge

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William Somerset Maugham
[France]
1944

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18
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Transit

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Anna Seghers
[Germany]
1944

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Pippi Longstocking

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Astrid Lindgren
[Sweden]
1945

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Loving

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Henry Green (Henry York)
[England]
1945

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21
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Animal Farm

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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1945

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The Bridge on the Drina

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Ivo Andric
[Bosnia]
1945
[NPL 1961]

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The Bridge on the Drina

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Ivo Andric
[Bosnia]
1945
[NPL 1961]

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24
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Christ Stopped at Eboli

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Carlo Levi
[Italy]
1945

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25
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Arcanum 17

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Andre Breton
[France]
1945

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26
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Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh
[England]
1945

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27
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Bosnian Chronicle (The Days of the Consuls)

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Ivo Andric
[Bosnia]
1945

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28
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The Tin Flute

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Gabrielle Roy
[Canada]
1945

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29
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Andrea

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Carmen Laforet
[Spain]
1945

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30
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The Death of Virgil

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Hermann Broch
[Austria]
1945

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31
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Titus Groan

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Mervyn Peake
[China]
1946

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32
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Zorba the Greek

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Nikos Kazantzakis
[Greece]
1946

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33
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Back

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Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1946

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34
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House in the Uplands

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Erskine Caldwell
[US]
1946

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35
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders

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Italo Calvino
[Cuba]
1947

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36
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Under the Volcano

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Malcolm Lowry
[England]
1947

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37
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If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)

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Primo Levi
[Italy]
1947

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38
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Exercises in Style

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Raymond Queneau
[France]
1947

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39
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The Plague

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Albert Camus
[Algeria]
1947
[NPL 1957]

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40
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Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann
[Germany]
1947

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41
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Midaq Alley

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Naguib Mahfouz
[Egypt]
1947
[NPL 1988]

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42
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Froth on the Daydream

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Boris Vian
[France]
1947

43
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Journey to the Alcarria

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Camilo Jose Cela
[Spain]
1948
[NPL 1989]

44
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Ashes and Diamonds

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Jerzy Andrzejewski
[Poland]
1948

45
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Disobedience

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Alberto Moravia
[Italy]
1948

46
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All About H. Hatterr

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G. V. Desani
[Kenya]
1948

47
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Cry, the Beloved Country

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Alan Paton
[South Africa]
1948

48
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In the Heart of the Seas

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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
[Austro-Hungary]
1948
[NPL 1966]

49
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

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Tadeusz Borowski
[Ukraine]
1948

50
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Death Sentence

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Maurice Blanchot
[France]
1948

51
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1949

52
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The Man with the Golden Arm

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Nelson Algren
[US]
1949

53
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Kingdom of This World

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Alejo Carpentier
[Cuba]
1949

54
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The Heat of the Day

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Elizabeth Bowen
[Ireland]
1949

55
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Love in a Cold Climate

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Nancy Mitford
[England]
1949

56
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev

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Victor Serge
[Belgium]
1949

57
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The Garden Where the Brass Band Played

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Simon Vestdijk
[Netherlands]
1950

58
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I, Robot

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Isaac Asimov
[Russia]
1950

59
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The Grass is Singing

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Doris Lessing
[Iran]
1950
[NPL 2007]

60
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A Town Like Alice

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Nevile Shute
[England]
1950

61
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The Moon and the Bonfires

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Cesare Pavese
[Italy]
1950

62
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Gormenghast

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Mervyn Peake
[China]
1950

63
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The 13 Clocks

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James Thurber
[US]
1950

64
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The Labyrinth of Solitude

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Octavio Paz
[Mexico]
1950
[NPL 1990]

65
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The Abbot C

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George Bataille
[France]
1950

66
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The Guiltless

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Hermann Broch
[Austira]
1950

67
Q

Barabbas

A

Par Lagerkvist
[Sweden]
1950
[NPL 1951]

68
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The End of the Affair

A

(Henry) Graham Greene
[England]
1951

69
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Molloy

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Samuel Beckett
[Ireland]
1951
[NPL 1969]

70
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The Rebel

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Albert Camus
[Algeria]
1951
[NPL 1957]

71
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The Catcher in the Rye

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J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger
[US]
1951

72
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The Opposing Shore

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Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier)
[France]
1951

73
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Foundation [Trilogy]

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Isaac Asimov
[Russia]
1951

74
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Malone Dies

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Samuel Beckett
[Ireland]
1951

75
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Day of the Triffids

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John Wyndham
[England]
1951

76
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Memoirs of Hadrian

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Marguerite Yourcenar
[Belgium]
1951

77
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The Hive

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Camilo Jose Cela
[Spain]
1951
[NPL 1989]

78
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Wise Blood

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(Mary) Flannery O’Connor
[US]
1952)

79
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The Old Man and the Sea

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Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1952
[PPL 1953]

80
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Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison
[US]
1952
[NBA 1952]

81
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The Judge and His Hangman

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Friedrich Durrenmatt
[Switzerland]
1952

82
Q

Excellent Women

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Barbara Pym
[England]
1952

83
Q

A Thousand Cranes

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Yasunari Kawabata
[Japan]
1952
[NPL 1968]

84
Q

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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James Baldwin
[US]
1953

85
Q

Casino Royale

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Ian Fleming
[England]
1953

86
Q

Junkie

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William Burroughs
[US]
1953

87
Q

Lucky Jim

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Kingsley Amis
[England]
1953
[SMA 1953]

88
Q

The Lost Steps

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Alejo Carpentier
[Switzerland]
1953

89
Q

The Hothouse

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Wolfgang Koeppen
[Germany]
1953

90
Q

The Long Good-Bye

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Raymond Chandler
[US]
1953

91
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The Go-Between

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L.P. Hartley
[England]
1953

92
Q

The Dark Child

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Camara Laye
[Guinea]
1953

93
Q

The Day in Spring

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Ciril Kosmac
[Slovenia]
1954

94
Q

A Ghost at Noon

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Alberto Moravia
[Italy]
1954

95
Q

The Story of O

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Pauline Reage
[France]
1954

96
Q

Under the Net

A

Iris Murdoch
[Ireland]
1954

97
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Lord of the Flies

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William Golding
[England]
1954
[NPL 1983]

98
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The Mandarins

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Simone de Beauvoir
[France]
1954

99
Q

Bonjour Tristesse

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Francoise Sagan
[France]
1954

100
Q

Death in Rome

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Wolfgang Koeppen
[Germany]
1954

101
Q

The Sound of Waves

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Yukio Mishima
[Japan]
1954

102
Q

The Unknown Soldier

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Vaino Linna
[Finland]
1954

103
Q

I’m Not Stiller

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Max Frisch
[Switzerland]
1954

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