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Books 1955 to 1964 Flashcards

1
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The Ragazzi

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
[Italy]
1955

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The Recognitions

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William Gaddis
[US]
1955

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The Burning Plain

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Juan Rulfo
[Mexico]
1955

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The Quiet American

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Graham Greene
[England]
1955

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The Trusting and the Maimed

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James Plunkett
[Ireland]
1955

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The Tree of Man

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Patrick White
[England]
1955
[NPL 1973]

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The Last Temptation of Christ

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Nikos Kazantzakis
[Greece]
1955

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The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

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Joao Guimaraes Rosa
[Brazil]
1955

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Lolita

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Vladimir Nabokov
[Russia]
1955

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Patricia Highsmith
[US]
1955

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The Lord of the Rings [Trilogy]

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J.R.R. Tolkien
[South Africa]
1954-55

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12
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The Lonely Londoners

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Sam Selvon
[Trinidad]
1956

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The Roots of Heaven

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Romain Gary
[Lithuania]
1956

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14
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The Floating Opera

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John Barth
[US]
1956

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15
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Giovanni’s Room

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James Baldwin
[US]
1956

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16
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Justine

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Lawrence Durrell
[India]
1957

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17
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The Glass Bees

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Ernst Junger
[Germany]
1957

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18
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Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak
[Russia]
1957
[NPL 1958 (Declined)]

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Pnin

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Vladimir Nabokov
[Russia]
1957

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20
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On the Road

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Jack Kerouac
[US]
1957

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21
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The Manila Rope

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Veijo Meri
[Finland]
1957

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The Deadbeats

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Ward Ruyslinck
[Belgium]
1957

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Homo Faber

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Max Frisch
[Switzerland]
1957

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24
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Blue of Noon

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Georges Bataille
[France]
1957

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The Midwich Cuckoos [Movie: Village of the Damned]

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John Wyndham
[England]
1957

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Voss

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Patrick White
[England]
1957
[NPL 1973]

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27
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Jealousy

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Alain Robbe-Grillet
[France]
1957

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28
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The Birds

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Tarjei Vesaas
[Norway]
1957

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29
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The Once and Future King

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T.H. (Terence Hanbury) White
[India]
1958

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The Bell

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Iris Murdoch
[Ireland]
1958

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31
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Borstal Boy

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Brendan Behan
[Ireland]
1958

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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

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Jorge Amado
[Brazil]
1958

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33
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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Alan Sillitoe
[England]
1958

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34
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Things Fall Apart

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Chinua Achebe
[Nigeria]
1958

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35
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The Bitter Glass

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Eilis Dillon
[Ireland]
1958

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36
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The Guide

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R.K. Narayan
[India]
1958

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37
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The Leopard

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
[Italy]
1958

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38
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Deep Rivers

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Jose Maria Arguedas
[Peru]
1958

39
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Truman Capote (Truman Persons)
[US]
1958

40
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Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring

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Kenzaburo Oe
[Japan]
1958
[NPL 1994]

41
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine

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Heinrich Boll
[Germany]
1959
[NPL 1972]

42
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Down Second Avenue

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Ezekiel Mphahlele
[South Africa]
1959

43
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Cider With Rosie

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Laurie Lee
[England]
1959

44
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The Tin Drum

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Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1959
[NPL 1999]

45
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The Naked Lunch

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William Burroughs
[US]
1959

46
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Billy Liar

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Keith Waterhouse
[England]
1959

47
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Absolute Beginners

A

Colin Macinnes
[England]
1959

48
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Promise at Dawn

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Romain Gary
[Lithuania]
1960

49
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Rabbit, Run

A

John Updike
[US]
1960

50
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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee
[US]
1960
[PPL 1961]

51
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The Magician of Lublin

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
[Poland]
1960
[NPL 1978]

52
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Halftime

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Martin Walser
[Germany]
1960

53
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The Country Girls

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Edna O’Brien
[Ireland]
1960

54
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Bebo’s Girl

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Carlo Cassola
[Italy]
1960

55
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God’s Bits of Wood

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Ousmane Sembene
[Senegal]
1960

56
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The Shipyard

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Juan Carlos Onetti
[Uruguay]
1961

57
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Catch-22

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Joseph Heller
[US]
1961

58
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Solaris

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Stanislaw Lem
[Poland]
1961

59
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Cat and Mouse

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Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1961
[NPL 1999]

60
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Muriel Spark
[Scotland]
1961

61
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The Severed Head

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Iris Murdoch
[Ireland]
1961

62
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Franny and Zooey

A

J.D. Salinger
[US]
1961

63
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No One Writes to the Colonel

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[Colombia]
1961

64
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Faces in the Water

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Janet Frame
[New Zealand]
1961

65
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Memoirs of a Peasant Boy

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Xose Neira Vilas
[Spain]
1961

66
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Stranger in a Strange Land

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Robert Heinlein
[US]
1961
[Hugo 1962]

67
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Labyrinths

A

Jorge Louis Borges
[Argentina]
1962

68
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The Golden Notebook

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Doris Lessing
[Iran]
1962

69
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Time of Silence

A

Luis Martin-Santos
[Spain]
1962

70
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Pale Fire

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Vladimir Nabokov
[Russia]
1962

71
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A Clockwork Orange

A

Anthony Burgess
[England]
1962

72
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

A

Ken Kesey
[US]
1962

73
Q

Girl with Green Eyes

A

Edna O’Brien
[Ireland]
1962

74
Q

The Death of Artemio Cruz

A

Carlos Fuentes
[Mexico]
1962

75
Q

The Time of the Hero

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Mario Vargas Llosa
[Peru]
1962

76
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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Giorgio Bassani
[Italy]
1963

77
Q

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
[Russia]
1963

78
Q

The Third Wedding

A

Costas Taktsis
[Greece]
1963

79
Q

Dog Years

A

Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1963
[NPL 1999]

80
Q

The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath (pseudo. Victoria Lucas)
[US]
1963

81
Q

Inside Mr. Enderby

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Anthony Burgess (pseudo. Joseph Kell)
[England]
1963

82
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The Girls of Slender Means

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Muriel Spark
[Scotland]
1963

83
Q

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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John Le Carre
[England]
1963

84
Q

Manon des Sources

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Marcel Pagnol
[France]
1963

85
Q

The Graduate

A

Charles Webb
[US]
1963

86
Q

Cat’s Cradle

A

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
[US]
1963

87
Q

V.

A

Thomas Pynchon
[US]
1963

88
Q

Herzog

A

Saul Bellow
[Canada]
1964
[NBA 1965]

89
Q

The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein

A

Marguerite Duras
[Vietnam]
1964

90
Q

Arrow of God

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Chinua Achebe
[Nigeria]
1964

91
Q

Three Trapped Tigers

A

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
[Cuba]
1964

92
Q

Sometimes a Great Notion

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Ken Kesey
[US]
1964

93
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The Passion According to G.H.

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Clarice Lispector
[Ukraine]
1964

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