Books 1955 to 1964 Flashcards by Darrell Pitt

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The Quiet American

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Graham Greene
[England]
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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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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Doctor Zhivago

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

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On the Road

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Jack Kerouac
[US]
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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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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Things Fall Apart

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Chinua Achebe
[Nigeria]
1958

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Truman Capote (Truman Persons)
[US]
1958

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The Tin Drum

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Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1959
[NPL 1999]

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The Naked Lunch

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William Burroughs
[US]
1959

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Billy Liar

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Keith Waterhouse
[England]
1959

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Absolute Beginners

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Colin Macinnes
[England]
1959

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Rabbit, Run

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John Updike
[US]
1960

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee
[US]
1960
[PPL 1961]

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Catch-22

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Joseph Heller
[US]
1961

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Solaris

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Stanislaw Lem
[Poland]
1961

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Cat and Mouse

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Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1961
[NPL 1999]

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Muriel Spark
[Scotland]
1961

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein [US] 1961 [Hugo 1962]

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing [Iran] 1962

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov [Russia] 1962

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess [England] 1962

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey [US] 1962

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Russia] 1963

The Bell Jar

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

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

John Le Carre [England] 1963

The Graduate

Charles Webb [US] 1963

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [US] 1963

Herzog

Saul Bellow [Canada] 1964 [NBA 1965]

Three Trapped Tigers

Guillermo Cabrera Infante [Cuba] 1964

Sometimes a Great Notion

Ken Kesey [US] 1964

The Passion According to G.H.

Clarice Lispector [Ukraine] 1964