Books 1955 to 1964 Flashcards

1
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The Ragazzi

A

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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6
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The Tree of Man

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Patrick White
[England]
1955
[NPL 1973]

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7
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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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9
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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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11
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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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13
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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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19
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Pnin

A

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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22
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The Deadbeats

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Ward Ruyslinck
[Belgium]
1957

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23
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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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25
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The Midwich Cuckoos [Movie: Village of the Damned]

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John Wyndham
[England]
1957

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26
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Voss

A

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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30
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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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32
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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

A

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

A

Jose Maria Arguedas
[Peru]
1958

39
Q

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

A

Truman Capote (Truman Persons)
[US]
1958

40
Q

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring

A

Kenzaburo Oe
[Japan]
1958
[NPL 1994]

41
Q

Billiards at Half-Past Nine

A

Heinrich Boll
[Germany]
1959
[NPL 1972]

42
Q

Down Second Avenue

A

Ezekiel Mphahlele
[South Africa]
1959

43
Q

Cider With Rosie

A

Laurie Lee
[England]
1959

44
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The Tin Drum

A

Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1959
[NPL 1999]

45
Q

The Naked Lunch

A

William Burroughs
[US]
1959

46
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Billy Liar

A

Keith Waterhouse
[England]
1959

47
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Absolute Beginners

A

Colin Macinnes
[England]
1959

48
Q

Promise at Dawn

A

Romain Gary
[Lithuania]
1960

49
Q

Rabbit, Run

A

John Updike
[US]
1960

50
Q

To Kill a Mockingbird

A

Harper Lee
[US]
1960
[PPL 1961]

51
Q

The Magician of Lublin

A

Isaac Bashevis Singer
[Poland]
1960
[NPL 1978]

52
Q

Halftime

A

Martin Walser
[Germany]
1960

53
Q

The Country Girls

A

Edna O’Brien
[Ireland]
1960

54
Q

Bebo’s Girl

A

Carlo Cassola
[Italy]
1960

55
Q

God’s Bits of Wood

A

Ousmane Sembene
[Senegal]
1960

56
Q

The Shipyard

A

Juan Carlos Onetti
[Uruguay]
1961

57
Q

Catch-22

A

Joseph Heller
[US]
1961

58
Q

Solaris

A

Stanislaw Lem
[Poland]
1961

59
Q

Cat and Mouse

A

Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1961
[NPL 1999]

60
Q

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A

Muriel Spark
[Scotland]
1961

61
Q

The Severed Head

A

Iris Murdoch
[Ireland]
1961

62
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Franny and Zooey

A

J.D. Salinger
[US]
1961

63
Q

No One Writes to the Colonel

A

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[Colombia]
1961

64
Q

Faces in the Water

A

Janet Frame
[New Zealand]
1961

65
Q

Memoirs of a Peasant Boy

A

Xose Neira Vilas
[Spain]
1961

66
Q

Stranger in a Strange Land

A

Robert Heinlein
[US]
1961
[Hugo 1962]

67
Q

Labyrinths

A

Jorge Louis Borges
[Argentina]
1962

68
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The Golden Notebook

A

Doris Lessing
[Iran]
1962

69
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Time of Silence

A

Luis Martin-Santos
[Spain]
1962

70
Q

Pale Fire

A

Vladimir Nabokov
[Russia]
1962

71
Q

A Clockwork Orange

A

Anthony Burgess
[England]
1962

72
Q

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

A

Mario Vargas Llosa
[Peru]
1962

76
Q

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

A

Giorgio Bassani
[Italy]
1963

77
Q

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

A

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

A

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

81
Q

Inside Mr. Enderby

A

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

82
Q

The Girls of Slender Means

A

Muriel Spark
[Scotland]
1963

83
Q

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

A

John Le Carre
[England]
1963

84
Q

Manon des Sources

A

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

A

Chinua Achebe
[Nigeria]
1964

91
Q

Three Trapped Tigers

A

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
[Cuba]
1964

92
Q

Sometimes a Great Notion

A

Ken Kesey
[US]
1964

93
Q

The Passion According to G.H.

A

Clarice Lispector
[Ukraine]
1964