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Works of literature from the 1950s.
- The 13 Clocks
- The 27th Day
- 87th Precinct. Series started in 1956.
- The Abandoned
- The Accursed Kings
- Advise & Consent
- After Dark, My Sweet
- After the Funeral
- Agent of Vega. Last new story published in 1951.
- Alas, Babylon
- Alexandria Quartet
- All-of-a-Kind Family
- "All Summer in a Day"
- "All the Troubles of the World"
- "—All You Zombies—"
- Anatole
- Andersonville
- Andromeda Nebula
- April Lady
- The Astronauts
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Auntie Mame
- "The Author's Ordeal"
- "Autofac"
- The Bad Seed
- The Ballad of the Sad Café
- Basil of Baker Street
- Bath Tangle
- The Beast Master
- The Beebo Brinker Chronicles series started in 1957.
- The Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction anthology series begun in 1952.
- Between Planets
- The Big Time
- Billy Liar
- Bony series continued through the decade.
- Book of Imaginary Beings
- The Borrowers
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- "Breeds There a Man...?"
- A Brighter Sun
- Bring the Jubilee
- The Broken Sword
- The Caine Mutiny
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Cat in the Hat
- The Caves of Steel
- "C-Chute"
- Change War. Series started in 1958.
- Charlotte's Web
- Cherry Ames
- Childe Cycle. Series started in 1959.
- Childhood's End
- The Chocolate Touch
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Chrysalids
- Cities in Flight
- Citizen of the Galaxy
- The City and the Stars
- "The Cold Equations"
- The Cone Gatherers
- Confessions of Felix Krull
- The Conformist
- ConSentiency series started in 1958.
- Consider Her Ways
- "The Corpse of Charlie Rull"
- Cotillion
- Crictor (1958)
- The Cruel Sea
- A Dance to the Music of Time. The series began in 1951.
- The Damned Yard
- Dancing Shoes
- Darkover series began in 1958.
- The Daughter of Time
- David And The Phoenix
- The Day of the Triffids
- Dead Man's Folly
- "The Dead Past"
- A Death in the Family
- Death Is My Trade
- The Demolished Man
- Despoilers of the Golden Empire
- Destination Unknown of 1954.
- Detectives in Togas
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Doctor Dan the Bandage Man
- Doctor Zhivago
- "Does A Bee Care?"
- The Dolphin Ring – first four novels published 1954-59.
- The Door into Summer
- Double Star
- The Doubtful Guest
- "Dreaming is a Private Thing"
- Dying Earth. First collection published in 1950.
- "The Dying Night"
- The Eagle of the Ninth
- Earth is Room Enough
- East of Eden
- Eden
- Ellen and Otis series
- Eloise
- The End of Eternity
- The End of the Affair
- The Enormous Egg
- "Entropy"
- "EPICAC"
- "The Evitable Conflict"
- A Fable
- Fahrenheit 451
- Farmer in the Sky
- Featherless Buzzards
- Federation of the Hub. The very first story in this setting appeared in 1953.
- "The Feeling of Power"
- Felse Investigates. The series started in 1951.
- "Feminine Intuition"
- Fire Engine By Mistake
- "First Law"
- The First World of If
- "Flies"
- Flower Drum Song
- Flying Saucers Have Landed
- ''The Fly"
- Forbidden Valley
- Forest of Boland Light Railway. Part of the Little Grey Men series begun in 1942.
- Follow My Leader
- The Foundation Trilogy
- "The Foundation of S.F. Success"
- 4:50 from Paddington
- "Franchise"
- From Here to Eternity
- "The Fun They Had"
- "Galley Slave"
- "The Gentle Vultures"
- "Gimmicks Three"
- Giovanni's Room
- The Glass Bees
- The Go-Between
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- "The Golden Phoenix"
- Goodbye, Columbus
- The Grand Sophy
- The Green Knowe Chronicles
- The Guns of Navarone
- Half Magic
- Happy Birthday to You!
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Harold Shea. Two stories in this intermittent series were written in The '50s.
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Have Spacesuit Will Travel
- "Hell-Fire (1956)"
- Henderson the Rain King
- Henry Huggins
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Human? (1954)
- Hoka. First story appeared in 1951.
- The Horse and His Boy
- Horton Hears a Who!
- "Hostess"
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- The Hundred and One Dalmatians
- I Am Legend
- "Icarus Montgolfier Wright"
- If I Ran the Circus
- If I Ran the Zoo
- ''I Just Make Them Up, See!"
- "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda"
- "The Immortal Bard"
- Immortality, Inc.
- "In a Good Cause—"
- "Insert Knob A in Hole B"
- Inside The Space Ships
- Invisible Man
- I, Robot
- "It's a Good Life"
- "It's Such a Beautiful Day"
- James Bond. The novel series started in 1953.
- Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
- Jennings series began in 1950.
- "Joey: A 'Mechanical Boy'"
- "Jokester"
- Judge Dee. Series started in 1959.
- Karlsson on the Roof
- Katherine
- "Kid Stuff"
- Killing Time
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
- A Kiss Before Dying
- The Kraken Wakes
- Lady-In-Waiting
- "The Landlady"
- The Languages of Pao
- The Last Battle
- The Last Hurrah
- "The Last Trump"
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes
- "Lenny"
- The Leopard
- "Let's Get Together"
- Life Among the Savages
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Little Bear
- "Little Girl Lost"
- Little Man of Disneyland (1955)
- "Living Space"
- The Little Witch
- Lolita
- The Long Goodbye
- Lord of the Flies
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Lovers
- "Lowlands"
- Lucky Jim
- Lucky Starr:
- Mad Hatter's Tea Party (1951)
- "The Man Who Came Early"
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile
- Marianne Dreams
- The Martian Chronicles
- "The Martian Way"
- Med Ship
- "The Message"
- Mickey Mouse and His Spaceship (1952)
- The Midwich Cuckoos
- Miffy
- A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates
- Mission of Gravity
- molesworth
- Moonraker
- More Than Human
- The Mouse That Roared
- Mr. Revere and I
- Mrs. McGinty's Dead
- Murder By The Book
- A Murder Is Announced
- My Cousin Rachel
- My Family and Other Animals
- My Father's Dragon series (started in 1950)
- My Side of the Mountain
- Naked Lunch
- The Naked Sun
- The Natural
- Night
- Nine Tomorrows
- "Nobody Here But—"
- The Nothing Equation
- Nurse Nancy
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Old Bugs (written decades earlier but not published until 1959)
- Old Yeller
- On the Beach
- On the Road
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- Operation Future
- Operation Massacre
- Ordeal by Innocence
- Outcast
- The Palm Wine Drinkard
- Pebble in the Sky
- Pedro Páramo
- The People
- Peyton Place
- Playback
- Pnin
- A Pocket Full of Rye
- Prince Caspian
- "Profession"
- Professor Mmaa's Lecture
- Psycho
- "The Psychohistorians"
- The Puppet Masters
- The Puppy Who Wanted A Boy
- The Quiet American
- The Quiet Gentleman
- "Rainbow Bridge"
- Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
- Ramona Quimby series started in 1955.
- The Recognitions
- "Rejection Slips"
- The Rescuers series started in 1959.
- The Return of the Condor Heroes
- Der Richter und sein Henker
- The Rider of the White Horse
- Ring for Jeeves
- Ripliad
- "Risk"
- Robots Have No Tails
- The Rolling Stones (1952)
- Rudolph Shines Again (1954)
- The Sack
- "Sam Hall"
- Scamp: The Adventures of a Little Puppy (1957)
- "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
- Scrambled Eggs Super!
- Sector General - first story published 1957.
- Seize the Day
- A Separate Peace
- The Sherwood Ring
- S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy
- The Silver Branch
- The Silver Brumby
- The Silver Chair
- Silver John series started in 1951.
- Simon
- Simon Ark
- The Sirens of Titan
- Sleeping Beauty and the Good Fairies (1958)
- Slime (1953)
- The Small Rain
- The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades First edition in 1957.
- Solar Queen series started in 1955.
- "Someday"
- "A Sound of Thunder"
- The Sound of Waves
- The Space Merchants
- "Spell My Name with an S"
- Sprig Muslin
- The Star Beast
- The Star Diaries. First edition in 1957.
- Starman Jones
- Starship Troopers
- The Stars, Like Dust
- The Stars My Destination
- Strangers on a Train
- "Strikebreaker"
- Suspicion
- Sword of Honour
- Sylvester
- Tales from the White Hart
- Technic History. Series started in 1952.
- "There Shall Be No Darkness"
- "There Will Come Soft Rains"
- They Came to Baghdad
- They Do It With Mirrors
- Things Fall Apart
- Till We Have Faces
- Time for the Stars
- Time Out of Joint
- Time Patrol. Series started in 1955.
- The Time Traders. Series started in 1958.
- The Tin Drum
- To Sir, with Love
- Tomorrow, the Stars
- The Town
- A Town Like Alice
- Treasures Of The Snow
- Tunnel in the Sky
- "The Ugly Little Boy"
- Under the Net
- The Unknown Ajax
- The Unknown Soldier
- "Unto the Fourth Generation"
- "The Up-to-Date Sorcerer"
- The Veldt
- The Pledge
- Venetia
- The Viking
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- Warrior Scarlet
- Wasp (1957)
- "The Watery Place"
- "What If— (1952)"
- Wise Blood
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Words of Science and the History Behind Them
- A World Called Maanerek
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories