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Books 1955 to 1964 Flashcards

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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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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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The Floating Opera

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John Barth
[US]
1956

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Giovanni’s Room

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James Baldwin
[US]
1956

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Justine

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Lawrence Durrell
[India]
1957

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The Glass Bees

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Ernst Junger
[Germany]
1957

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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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On the Road

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Jack Kerouac
[US]
1957

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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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Blue of Noon

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Georges Bataille
[France]
1957

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The Midwich Cuckoos [Movie: Village of the Damned]
John Wyndham [England] 1957
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Voss
Patrick White [England] 1957 [NPL 1973]
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Jealousy
Alain Robbe-Grillet [France] 1957
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The Birds
Tarjei Vesaas [Norway] 1957
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The Once and Future King
T.H. (Terence Hanbury) White [India] 1958
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The Bell
Iris Murdoch [Ireland] 1958
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Borstal Boy
Brendan Behan [Ireland] 1958
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado [Brazil] 1958
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alan Sillitoe [England] 1958
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] 1958
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The Bitter Glass
Eilis Dillon [Ireland] 1958
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The Guide
R.K. Narayan [India] 1958
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The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa [Italy] 1958
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Deep Rivers
Jose Maria Arguedas [Peru] 1958
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote (Truman Persons) [US] 1958
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Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Kenzaburo Oe [Japan] 1958 [NPL 1994]
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Heinrich Boll [Germany] 1959 [NPL 1972]
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Down Second Avenue
Ezekiel Mphahlele [South Africa] 1959
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Cider With Rosie
Laurie Lee [England] 1959
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The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass [Poland] 1959 [NPL 1999]
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The Naked Lunch
William Burroughs [US] 1959
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Billy Liar
Keith Waterhouse [England] 1959
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Absolute Beginners
Colin Macinnes [England] 1959
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Promise at Dawn
Romain Gary [Lithuania] 1960
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Rabbit, Run
John Updike [US] 1960
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee [US] 1960 [PPL 1961]
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The Magician of Lublin
Isaac Bashevis Singer [Poland] 1960 [NPL 1978]
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Halftime
Martin Walser [Germany] 1960
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The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien [Ireland] 1960
54
Bebo's Girl
Carlo Cassola [Italy] 1960
55
God's Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembene [Senegal] 1960
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The Shipyard
Juan Carlos Onetti [Uruguay] 1961
57
Catch-22
Joseph Heller [US] 1961
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Solaris
Stanislaw Lem [Poland] 1961
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Cat and Mouse
Gunter Grass [Poland] 1961 [NPL 1999]
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark [Scotland] 1961
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The Severed Head
Iris Murdoch [Ireland] 1961
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Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger [US] 1961
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No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Colombia] 1961
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Faces in the Water
Janet Frame [New Zealand] 1961
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Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Xose Neira Vilas [Spain] 1961
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein [US] 1961 [Hugo 1962]
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Labyrinths
Jorge Louis Borges [Argentina] 1962
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The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing [Iran] 1962
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Time of Silence
Luis Martin-Santos [Spain] 1962
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov [Russia] 1962
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess [England] 1962
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey [US] 1962
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Girl with Green Eyes
Edna O'Brien [Ireland] 1962
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes [Mexico] 1962
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The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] 1962
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani [Italy] 1963
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Russia] 1963
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The Third Wedding
Costas Taktsis [Greece] 1963
79
Dog Years
Gunter Grass [Poland] 1963 [NPL 1999]
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath (pseudo. Victoria Lucas) [US] 1963
81
Inside Mr. Enderby
Anthony Burgess (pseudo. Joseph Kell) [England] 1963
82
The Girls of Slender Means
Muriel Spark [Scotland] 1963
83
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John Le Carre [England] 1963
84
Manon des Sources
Marcel Pagnol [France] 1963
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The Graduate
Charles Webb [US] 1963
86
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [US] 1963
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V.
Thomas Pynchon [US] 1963
88
Herzog
Saul Bellow [Canada] 1964 [NBA 1965]
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The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Marguerite Duras [Vietnam] 1964
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Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] 1964
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Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante [Cuba] 1964
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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey [US] 1964
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The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector [Ukraine] 1964

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