Most Popular Fiction Books of the 1950s

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The Survivor and Others

H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1957

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Time Masters #2

Time Bomb

Wilson Tucker

Science Fiction

1955

10.0/10 1 ratings

Beyond Eden

David Duncan

Science Fiction

1955

10.0/10 1 ratings

Mushroom Planet #1

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

Eleanor Cameron

Science Fiction · Childrens

1954

The Bird's Nest

Shirley Jackson

Thriller

1954

10.0/10 1 ratings

Dark Dominion

David Duncan

Science Fiction

1954

10.0/10 1 ratings

Northwest of Earth

C. L. Moore

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1954

10.0/10 1 ratings

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

Science Fiction

1954

10.0/10 1 ratings

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Roger Lancelyn Green

Fantasy · Arthuriana · Childrens · Historical Fiction

1953

10.0/10 1 ratings

Mr Pye

Mervyn Peake

Fantasy

1953

10.0/10 1 ratings

Limbo

Bernard Wolfe

Science Fiction · Dystopia

1952

10.0/10 1 ratings

The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree

Louis Slobodkin

Science Fiction · Childrens

1952

10.0/10 1 ratings

Non-Stop

Brian Aldiss

Science Fiction

1958

9.0/10 3 ratings

E Pluribus Unicorn

Theodore Sturgeon

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1953

9.0/10 3 ratings

The Menace from Earth

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1959

9.0/10 2 ratings

Pan Book of Horror Stories #1

The Pan Book of Horror Stories

Johnny Mains, Herbert van Thal

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Ghosts · Gothic Horror

1959

9.0/10 1 ratings

Seed of Light

Edmund Cooper

Science Fiction

1959

9.0/10 1 ratings

British Library Science Fiction Classics

The Tide Went Out

Charles Eric Maine

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic · Thriller

1958

9.0/10 1 ratings

A Way Home

Theodore Sturgeon

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1955

9.0/10 1 ratings

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Horror

1959

8.5/10 8 ratings

HMS Ulysses

Alistair MacLean

Suspense Thriller · War & Military · Adventure · Thriller

1955

8.5/10 2 ratings

Heinlein Juveniles

Between Planets

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction · Young Adult

1951

8.5/10 2 ratings

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

C. S. Lewis

Fantasy · Ancient Mythology

1956

8.5/10 11 ratings

The Borrowers #3

The Borrowers Afloat

Mary Norton

Fantasy · Young Adult

1959

8.3/10 7 ratings

The Star Diaries

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Translation

1957

8.3/10 4 ratings

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1950

8.0/10 14 ratings

Gormenghast #2

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake

Fantasy

1950

8.0/10 8 ratings

The Borrowers #2

The Borrowers Afield

Mary Norton

Fantasy · Young Adult

1955

8.0/10 8 ratings

The Door into Summer

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

1957

8.0/10 4 ratings

The Broken Sword

Poul Anderson

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy

1954

8.0/10 4 ratings

Heinlein Juveniles

Farmer in the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction · Young Adult · Hugo Award

1950

8.0/10 4 ratings

The Puppet Masters

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

1951

8.0/10 3 ratings

A Touch of Strange

Theodore Sturgeon

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1958

8.0/10 2 ratings

Darkover

Falcons of Narabedla

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Science Fiction

1957

8.0/10 2 ratings

Conan

Conan the Barbarian

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1954

8.0/10 2 ratings

Judgment Night

C. L. Moore

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1952

8.0/10 2 ratings