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Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953
Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction novels and novellas edited by E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by The Bodley Head in 1955 under the title Category Phoenix. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%27s_Best_Science_Fiction_Novels:_1953
Writing Degree Zero
Writing Degree Zero (French: Le degré zéro de l'écriture) is a book of literary criticism by Roland Barthes. First published in 1953, it was Barthes' first full-length book and was intended, as Barthes writes in the introduction, as "no more than an Introduction to what a History of Writing might be."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_Degree_Zero
When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter which studied a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent Apocalypse and its coping mechanisms after the event did not occur. Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance can account for the psychological consequences of disconfirmed expectations. One of the first published cases of dissonance was reported in this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
User:Ksanchez20/sandbox
Other sandboxes: Main sandbox | Tutorial sandbox 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Template sandbox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ksanchez20/sandbox
A Very Special House
A Very Special House, written by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, is a 1953 picture book published by HarperCollins. A Very Special House was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for 1954 and was Sendak's first Caldecott Honor Medal of a total of seven during his career. Sendak won the Caldecott Medal in 1964 for Where the Wild Things Are, which he both authored and Illustrated. A Very Special House was re-issued by HarperCollins in 2001 in hardcover format as part of a project to re-issue 22 Sendak works including several authored by Ruth Krauss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Special_House
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions is a 1953 book, which explains the twenty-four basic principles or Alcoholics Anonymous and their application., and contains a detailed interpretation of principles for personal recovery and group survival. Bill W began work on this project in early 1952. By 1957, 50,000 copies were in circulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Steps_and_Twelve_Traditions
Tomorrow, the Stars
Tomorrow, the Stars is an anthology of speculative fiction short stories, presented as edited by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow,_the_Stars
The Boy Who Saw True (book)
The Boy Who Saw True (Originally published Neville Spearman, 1953 ) with an introduction, afterword and notes by Cyril Scott, is the allegedly true diary of a young Victorian boy with clairvoyant gifts. Born with unusual talents, the anonymous author could apparently see auras and spirits, yet failed to realise that other people were not similarly gifted. "In consequence he was misunderstood, and had to suffer many indignities."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Saw_True_(book)
A Tally of Types
A Tally of Types is a book in the field of typography, authored by the type designer Stanley Morison in 1953, showcasing significant typeface designs produced during his tenure at the Lanston Monotype Corporation for their hot metal typesetting machines during the 1920s and 1930s in England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tally_of_Types
Straight and Crooked Thinking
Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather than a theoretical one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking
A Stillness at Appomattox
A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is an award-winning, non-fiction book written by Bruce Catton. It recounts the American Civil War's final year, describing the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia during 1864 to the end of the war in 1865. It is the final volume of the Army of the Potomac trilogy that includes Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951) and Glory Road (1952).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Stillness_at_Appomattox
The Spirit of St. Louis (book)
The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). The book was published on September 14, 1953, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_St._Louis_(book)
The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure
The Silent World (subtitle: A story of undersea discovery and adventure, by the first men to swim at record depths with the freedom of fish) is a 1953 book co-authored by Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frédéric Dumas and edited by James Dugan. Although a French national, Cousteau wrote the book in English. Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943 off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters Cousteau recounts the earliest days of scuba diving with his diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Philippe Tailliez. The aqualung allowed for the first time untethered free-floating extended deep water diving and ushered in the modern era of scuba diving. Later chapters include excursions diving ship wrecks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_World:_A_Story_of_Undersea_Discovery_and_Adventure
Scuppers The Sailor Dog
Scuppers The Sailor Dog (or simply The Sailor Dog) is a children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was originally published in 1953 by Golden Books. The 2001 edition lacks four pages of color illustrations and text found in the original 1953 edition as well as the cover illustration from the original (replaced by the illustration from Page 23). An interactive CD-ROM version was published in 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppers_The_Sailor_Dog
Scrambled Eggs Super!
Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 book by American children's author Dr. Seuss. It tells of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs of various exotic birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambled_Eggs_Super!
Science Fiction Carnival
Science Fiction Carnival is an anthology of humorous science fiction stories edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds. It was published by Shasta Publishers in 1953 in an edition of 3,500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Super Science Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Astounding, Worlds Beyond, Slant, Imagination, Space Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Blue Book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Carnival
Science and Sorcery
Science and Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories edited by Garret Ford (a pseudonym for William L. Crawford). It was published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in 1953 in an edition of 500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy Book. Others appeared in the magazines Thrilling Wonder Stories, The Vortex and Weird Tales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Sorcery
The Robot and the Man
The Robot and the Man is a 1953 anthology of science fiction short stories regarding robots edited by Martin Greenberg. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Astounding and Galaxy Science Fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robot_and_the_Man
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (German: Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik) is a book of Ludwig Wittgenstein's notes on the philosophy of mathematics. It has been translated from German to English by G.E.M. Anscombe, edited by G.H. von Wright and Rush Rhees, and published first in 1956. The text has been produced from passages in various sources by selection and editing. The notes have been written during the years 1937-1944 and a few passages are incorporated in the Philosophical Investigations which were composed later. When the book appeared it received many negative reviews mostly from working logicians and mathematicians, among them Michael Dummett, Paul Bernays, and Georg Kreisel. Today Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics is read mostly by philosophers sympathetic to Wittgenstein and they tend to adopt a more positive stance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remarks_on_the_Foundations_of_Mathematics
Quadratic (collection)
Quadratic is a collection of four science fiction works by Olaf Stapledon and Murray Leinster. It was edited by William L. Crawford and published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of Stapledon's Worlds of Wonder and Leinster's Murder Madness, created by combining unbound sheets from the publisher's previous editions of the two volumes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_(collection)
The Principal Upanishads
The Principal Upanishads is a 1953 book written Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), then Vice President of India (and later President of India), about the main Upanishads, which carry central teachings of the Vedanta. Originally published in 1953 by Harper, the book has been republished several times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_Upanishads
Poems (Hesse)
Poems is a collection of 31 poems written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1899 and 1921. They were selected and translated to English by James Wright in 1970 from Die Gedichte, which was published in German in 1953. This collection was first published in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_(Hesse)
Performing Flea
Performing Flea is a non-fiction book, consisting of a series of letters written by P. G. Wodehouse to William Townend, a friend of Wodehouse's since their schooldays together at Dulwich College. It was originally published in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The title alludes to a disparaging comment by the playwright Seán O'Casey, who, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph in July 1941, referring to Wodehouse's radio broadcasts from Berlin, wrote that "If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_Flea
Old Men Forget
Old Men Forget is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature and politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Men_Forget
Neue Deutsche Biographie
Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (literally New German Biography) is a biographical reference work. Scheduled for completion in 2019, it is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB, Universal German Biography). The 25 volumes published thus far cover more than 21,800 individuals and families who lived in the German language area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Biographie
Men Among the Ruins
Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist is a book by Julius Evola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Among_the_Ruins
The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 Second World War war film, based on the book of the same name by Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu and dramatising actual events. The film was directed by Ronald Neame and starred Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame and Robert Flemyng. It is about Operation Mincemeat, a 1943 British Intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, would take place elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was
Madeline's Rescue
Madeline's Rescue is a book by Ludwig Bemelmans, the second in the Madeline series. Released by Viking Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline%27s_Rescue
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953 jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian Chromatic Concept (LCC), or Lydian Chromatic Theory (LCT). Russell's work postulates that all music is based on the tonal gravity of the Lydian mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_Chromatic_Concept_of_Tonal_Organization
Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker
Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker is a Lucky Luke comic by Morris, it was the fifth album in the series and was printed by Dupuis in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke_contre_Pat_Poker
Le Livre de poche
Le Livre de Poche (literally "The Pocket Book") is the name of a collection of literature which appeared 9 February 1953 under the leadership of Henri Filipacchi and published by the Librairie générale française, a subsidiary of Hachette.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Livre_de_poche
The Little Red Caboose
The Little Red Caboose is a children's book by Marian Potter and illustrated by Tibor Gergely, first published in 1953. It tells the story of a caboose who longs to be as popular as the steam engine at the front of the train, and gains the respect and admiration of all when it saves the train from rolling down a mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Caboose
A Life for Hungary
Ein Leben für Ungarn (English: A Life for Hungary) are the memoirs of Nikolaus von Horthy (also known as Miklós Horthy), Regent of Hungary. They were published in German under the name of Nikolaus von Horthy when he was exiled in Portugal after World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Life_for_Hungary
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones. The most famous biography of Freud, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was originally published in three volumes (first volume 1953, second volume 1955, third volume 1957); a one-volume edition abridged by literary critics Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus followed in 1961. Although his biography has retained its status as a classic, Jones has been criticized for presenting an overly-favorable image of Freud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Work_of_Sigmund_Freud
Kinsey Reports
The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others and published by Saunders. Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University and the founder of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction (more widely known as the Kinsey Institute).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Reports
Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger)
Introduction to Metaphysics (German: Einführung in die Metaphysik) is a book by Martin Heidegger, the published version of a lecture course he gave in the summer of 1935 at the University of Freiburg. The content of these lectures was not published in Germany until 1953. Heidegger commended this book along with his work Being and Time (1927), as summarising his views at that time (1953) on ontology. The work has been widely regarded as "indelibly fascist in character."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Metaphysics_(Heidegger)
Indian Tales
Indian Tales is a collection of connected short narratives written and illustrated by Jaime de Angulo, published by A. A. Wyn in 1953. The stories revolve around an anthropomorphic animal family traveling across California, and encountering various mythological figures, such as Old Man Coyote, Loon Woman, and various animal tribes who live as the indigenous peoples of California did in pre-European times. The book is an imaginative retelling of many of the folktales and myths collected by de Angulo as an erstwhile anthropologist. The stories are written to be of interest to younger readers, but are also read by adults. The books foreword is by Carl Carmer. The Indian Tales were originally read live on KPFA radio in 1949, and released as a recording. The book has been used as a text in California history classes. De Angulo writes in the foreword,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Tales
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son is the title of a work by J. R. R. Tolkien that was originally published in 1953 in volume 6 of the scholarly journal Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, and later republished in 1966 in The Tolkien Reader. It is a work of historical fiction, inspired by the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon. It is written in the form of an alliterative poem, but is also a play, being mainly a dialogue between two characters in the aftermath of the Battle of Maldon. The work was accompanied by two essays, also by Tolkien, one before and one after the main work. The work, as published, was thus presented as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homecoming_of_Beorhtnoth_Beorhthelm%27s_Son
The Hill of Devi
The Hill of Devi is an account by E. M. Forster of two visits to India in 1912-1913 and 1921, during which he worked as the private secretary to Tukojirao III, the Maharaja of the state of Dewas Senior. The book was first published in 1953. E. M. Forster derived inspiration for the book from the famous hill-top temple of the Hindu Mother Goddess "Devi".The story is based in pre-independence India in a non-descript kingdom in the central part of the country, Dewas. The book offers an insight into the life of Indian royalty as it skillfully revolves around the internal feud between two scions of the ruling family of Dewas. The 1924 novel "A Passage to India" should be read along with this book: it makes a complete experience. The hill is immediately north of the old town in Dewas, at 22.97 degrees north, 76.06 degrees east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_of_Devi
The Hedgehog and the Fox
'The Hedgehog and the Fox' is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. It was one of Berlin's most popular essays with the general public. Berlin himself said of the essay: 'I never meant it very seriously. I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken seriously. Every classification throws light on something.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
Flying Saucers from Outer Space
Flying Saucers from Outer Space (Holt, 1953) is a non-fiction book by Donald Keyhoe about unidentified flying objects, aka UFO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucers_from_Outer_Space
Fantasy Twin
Fantasy Twin is a collection of fantasy novels by L. Sprague de Camp and Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of de Camps's The Undesired Princess and Weinbaum's The Dark Other, created by combining unbound sheets from the publisher's previous editions of the two volumes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Twin
The Facts of Life (book)
The Facts of Life is a book published in 1953 by C. D. Darlington of the subject of race, heredity and evolution. Darlington was a major contributor to the field of genetics around the time of the Modern synthesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facts_of_Life_(book)
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web-based publication that contains statistics for 7,469 languages and dialects in its 18th edition, which was released in 2015. Of these, 7,102 are listed as living and 367 are listed as extinct Up until the 16th edition in 2009, the publication was a printed volume. Ethnologue provides information on the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations, availability of the Bible in each language and dialect described, and an estimate of language viability using the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue
Essays in Positive Economics
Milton Friedman's book Essays in Positive Economics (1953) is a collection of earlier articles by the author with as its lead an original essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics," on which this article focuses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_in_Positive_Economics
The Economic System In Islam
The Economic System In Islam is a book written by Taqiuddin an-Nabhani originally written and published in Arabic in 1953 and translated into English and other languages. It explains the Islamic views on economy and its contradictions with Western-based capitalism and socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_System_In_Islam
Early Netherlandish Painting (Panofsky)
Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character, is a 1953 book on art history by Erwin Panofsky, derived from the 1947-48 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. The book had a wide impact on studies of Renaissance art and Early Netherlandish painting in particular, but also studies in iconography, art history, and intellectual history in general. The book is particularly well-known for its iconographic treatment of Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait as a kind of marriage contract. The book remains influential despite its reliance on black-and-white reproductions of paintings, which led to some errors of analysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Netherlandish_Painting_(Panofsky)
Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851
The Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 is a biographical dictionary of sculptors active in Britain in the period between the Restoration of Charles II and the Great Exhibition of 1851. It has appeared in three editions, published in 1953, 1968, and 2009 respectively: the 2009 edition adopts the amended title, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660–1851. The first two editions were researched and written by Rupert Forbes Gunnis, and were often known simply as Gunnis. The third edition was edited by Ingrid Roscoe. The book is a major scholarly work, which rapidly established itself as a standard authority on British sculptors and sculpture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_British_Sculptors_1660%E2%80%931851
Destination Moon (comics)
Destination Moon (French: Objectif Lune) is the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from March to September 1950 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953. The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is working on a top-secret project in a secure government facility to plan a manned mission to the Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Moon_(comics)
Crossroads in Time
Crossroads in Time is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Permabooks in November 1953. It has also been translated into Spanish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_in_Time
The Complete Book of Outer Space
The Complete Book of Outer Space is a 1953 collection of essays about space exploration edited by Jeffrey Logan. It first appeared as a magazine, published by Maco Magazine Corp. The first book publication was by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 3,000 copies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Book_of_Outer_Space
The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig
The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953) is the brief 21st book in the humorous American children's series Freddy the Pig (1927 to 1958). The entire series, which otherwise comprises 25 novels, was written by Walter R. Brooks, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, and published by Alfred A. Knopf. The Collected Poems is primarily a reissue of poems and songs that had appeared in the first 20 novels, although it contains some new poems by Brooks and new illustrations by Wiese. One cover notes, "If it seems a bit hammy in spots, that is to be expected." It was republished in 1962 by Random House, and again in 2001 by the Overlook Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Poems_of_Freddy_the_Pig
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind (Polish: Zniewolony umysł) is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer, academic and Nobel laureate, Czesław Miłosz, translated into English by Jane Zielonko and originally published by Secker and Warburg. The book was written soon after the author received political asylum in Paris following his break with Poland's Communist government. It draws upon his experiences as an underground writer during World War II, and his position within the political and cultural elite of Poland in the immediate post-war years. The book attempts to explain both the intellectual allure of Stalinism and the temptation of collaboration with the Stalinist regime among intellectuals in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. Miłosz describes the book as having been written "under great inner conflict".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind
Bring on the Girls!
Bring on the Girls! is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on 5 October 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_on_the_Girls!
Borges on Martín Fierro
Borges on Martín Fierro concerns Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges's comments on José Hernández's nineteenth century poem Martín Fierro. Like most of his compatriots, Borges was a great admirer of this work, which he often characterized as the one clearly great work in Argentine literature. Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered (beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception - El "Martín Fierro" (written with Margarita Guerrero) - gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borges_on_Mart%C3%ADn_Fierro
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1955 under the title The Best Science Fiction Stories: Fourth Series. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction and Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Science_Fiction_Stories:_1953
Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology
Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology is a popular introductory textbook on psychology written originally by Ernest Hilgard, Richard C. Atkinson and Rita L. Atkinson and edited and revised by Edward E. Smith, Daryl J. Bem, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Geoff R. Loftus and Willem A. Wagenaar. Sixteen editions of Introduction to Psychology have been published between 1953 and 2014. The text is organized around the major discoveries of psychology research and is strongly biological in its approach to psychology. Eventually the book was translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_%26_Hilgard%27s_Introduction_to_Psychology
Amateur Telescope Making
Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) is a series of three books edited by Albert G. Ingalls between 1926 and 1953 while he was an associate editor at Scientific American. The books cover various aspects of telescope construction and observational technique, sometimes at quite an advanced level, but always in a way that is accessible to the intelligent amateur. The caliber of the contributions is uniformly high and the books have remained in constant use by both amateurs and professionals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Telescope_Making
333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel
333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel is a bibliography of English science fiction and fantasy books compiled and edited by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr., James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant. It was first published by The Grandon Company in an edition of 450 paperback and 50 hardback copies. The hardback was issued without jacket. The book gives plot descriptions of 333 novels published prior to 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/333:_A_Bibliography_of_the_Science-Fantasy_Novel
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea
Picnic (play)
Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. The play was premiered at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway, on 19 February 1953 in a Theatre Guild production, directed by Joshua Logan, which ran for 477 performances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(play)
Secret of the Andes
Secret of the Andes is a children's novel by Ann Nolan Clark. It won the 1953 Newbery Medal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Andes
Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man_(novel)
John Moore (British Army officer)
American War of Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore_(British_Army_officer)
A Valley Grows Up
A Valley Grows Up is a history book for children, written and illustrated by Edward Osmond and published by Oxford University Press in 1953. It features an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BCE to 1900. Osmond won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. In more than seventy years only a handful of nonfiction books have been so honoured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Valley_Grows_Up
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations (German: Philosophische Untersuchungen) is a highly influential work by the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In it, Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of mind. He puts forth the view that conceptual confusions surrounding language use are at the root of most philosophical problems, contradicting or discarding much of what he argued in his earlier work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet: My Life Before, During and After (1952; German: Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama; 1954 in English) is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet
The Overloaded Ark
The Overloaded Ark, first published in 1953, is the debut book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It is the chronicle of a six months collecting trip to the West African colony of British Cameroon - now Cameroon - (Dec 1947 - Aug 1948) - that Durrell made with the highly regarded aviculturist and ornithologist John Yealland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overloaded_Ark
Science-Fiction Handbook
Science-Fiction Handbook is a guide to writing and marketing science fiction and fantasy by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, "one of the earliest books about modern sf." The original edition by L. Sprague de Camp alone, subtitled The Writing of Imaginative Fiction, was published in hardcover by Hermitage House in 1953 as a volume in its Professional Writers Library series. A revised edition, credited to both authors, titled Science Fiction Handbook, Revised, was published in hardcover by Owlswick Press in 1975 and as a trade paperback by McGraw-Hill in 1977. An E-book version of the revised edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on April 30, 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-Fiction_Handbook
Era of Good Feelings
The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The era saw the collapse of the Federalist Party and an end to the bitter partisan disputes between it and the dominant Democratic-Republican Party during the First Party System. President James Monroe strove to downplay partisan affiliation in making his nominations, with the ultimate goal of national unity and eliminating parties altogether from national politics. The period is so closely associated with Monroe's presidency (1817–1825) and his administrative goals that his name and the era are virtually synonymous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Era_of_Good_Feelings
Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950 was a poetry anthology edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, and first published in 1953 by Faber and Faber. A selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse, it did not attempt to cover American poetry (beyond Eliot and Pound). It has been through numerous further editions. It was last issued as a hardback in St. Clair Shores, Michigan by Somerset Publishers Inc. in 1988 with ISBN 0-403-07212-3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faber_Book_of_Twentieth_Century_Verse
The Marriage (Gombrowicz play)
The Marriage (Polish: Ślub) is a play by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, written in Argentina after World War II. The narrative takes place in a dream, where the dreamer transforms into a king and plans to marry his fiancée in a royal wedding, only as a means to save their integrity. A Spanish translation was first published in 1948, followed by the original Polish version in 1953. The play was first performed in 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_(Gombrowicz_play)
The Fire Raisers (play)
The Fire Raisers (German: Biedermann und die Brandstifter), also known in English as The Firebugs, Firebugs, or The Arsonists, was written by Max Frisch in 1953, first as a radio play, then adapted for television and the stage (1958) as a play in six scenes. It was revised in 1960 to include an epilogue, or afterpiece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)
Witness for the Prosecution (play)
Witness for the Prosecution is a play adapted by Agatha Christie from her short story. The play opened in London on 28 October 1953 at the Winter Garden Theatre (although the first performance had actually been in Nottingham on 28 September). It was produced by Peter Saunders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_for_the_Prosecution_(play)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictures. Dennis Weaver and Earl Holliman make early screen roles in the motion picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_at_Toko-Ri
The Robe
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion of Jesus written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, and four weeks later rose to No. 1. It held the position for nearly a year. The Robe remained on the list for another two years, returning several other times over the next several years including when the film adaptation (featuring Richard Burton in an early role) was released in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robe
Maud Martha
Maud Martha is the only novella written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Published in 1953 by Harper & Brothers and reprinted by Third World Press, it includes a series of vignettes following the titular character Maud Martha as she negotiates the passage from childhood to adulthood in black Chicago neighbourhoods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Martha
Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son
Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son subtitled The Writings of an Orphan Boy (מאָטל פּייסי דעם חזנס; כתבֿים פֿון אַ ייִנגל אַ יתום — motl peysi dem khazns; ksovim fun a yingl a yosem) was the last novel by the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, and unfinished at the time of his death. It was published in two separate volumes. The first was headed From Home to America (פֿון דער היים קיין אַמעריקע — fun der heym keyn amerike), relating the protagonist's experiences in Europe, and appearing in 1907. The second was headed In America, (אין אַמעריקע — in amerike), chronicling his life in New York City, and written in 1916. They were printed on numerous occasions in various formats and with differing orthographic conventions. A representative edition is located at https://archive.org/download/nybc200058/nybc200058.pdf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Mottel_the_Cantor%27s_Son
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many interpretations since the play's 1953 premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century". Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The première was on 5 January 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_For_Godot
Who He?
Who He (also published as The Rat Race) is a novel by science fiction author Alfred Bester, published in 1953. The book was republished in 2007 and as of 2015 is available for purchase from Wildside Press. It provides a detailed if somewhat madcap view of the early days of television production in New York City before most tv production moved west to California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_He%3F
Watt (novel)
Watt was Samuel Beckett's second published novel in English, largely written on the run in the south of France during the Second World War and published by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press in 1953 (an extract had been published in the Dublin literary review, Envoy, in 1950). A French translation followed in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_(novel)
The Virgin of Zesh
The Virgin of Zesh is a science fiction novella written by L. Sprague de Camp, the fourth book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and the third of its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. Chronologically it is the fifth Krishna novel.It was first published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories for February 1953. It was first published in book form together with The Wheels of If in the paperback collection The Virgin & the Wheels by Popular Library in 1976. For the later standard edition of Krishna novels it was published together with The Tower of Zanid in the paperback collection The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid by Ace Books in 1983. The first stand-alone edition was published as an E-book by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_of_Zesh
The Victorian Chaise-Longue
The Victorian Chaise-Longue (1953) is a novella by the English novelist Marghanita Laski. Published in 1953, the book describes the experience of an invalided young woman who wakes up in the body of her alter-ego eighty years previously. Described by Anthony Boucher as 'relentlessly terrifying', and as 'disturbing and compulsive' by Penelope Lively, the novella plays on the fear of the unexpected and unknown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Chaise-Longue
La Vallée infernale
La Vallée infernale is the first novel in the Bob Morane series, written by the Belgian novelist Henri Vernes. It was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vall%C3%A9e_infernale
Up Ferguson Way
A fictional work (from 1953) by Pulitzer-prize winner Louis Bromfield, Up Ferguson Way would epitomize Bromfield's work. First appearing as a chapter in Pleasant Valley, Up Ferguson Way was set at the high-meadowed prairie at Malabar Farm that bore its name. William Ferguson was one of the earliest settlers to the valley. He had crossed the Alleghenies and struck a partnership with the native Delaware tribes in the area. Later, the log cabin in which he resided during these fur trading expeditions became his permanent home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Ferguson_Way
The Unnamable (novel)
The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It is the third and final entry in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels, which begins with Molloy followed by Malone Dies. It was originally published in French as L'Innommable and later adapted by the author into English. Grove Press published the English edition in 1958.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unnamable_(novel)
The Universe Maker
The Universe Maker is a science fiction novel by American author A.E. van Vogt, published in 1953 by Ace Books. It takes place 400 years into the future. The main character is Morton Cargill, a U.S. army officer who served in the Korean War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_Maker
The Undying Fire (Pratt novel)
The Undying Fire is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1953. The novel has also been translated into Italian. The book is an expansion of the author's novella "The Conditioned Captain," originally published in the magazine Startling Stories in the issue for May, 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undying_Fire_(Pratt_novel)
The Unconquered (novel)
The Unconquered was a 1953 novel by Ben Ames Williams. It was Williams' final novel, completed in January 1953 less than a month before his death. It is a sequel to his House Divided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unconquered_(novel)
Trans-Atlantyk
Trans-Atlantyk is a novel by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, originally published in 1953. The semi-autobiographical plot of the novel closely tracks Gombrowicz's own experience in the years during and just after the outbreak of World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Atlantyk
Too Late the Phalarope
Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country. It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful in 1981.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Late_the_Phalarope
The Syndic
The Syndic is a 1953 science fiction novel by Cyril M. Kornbluth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syndic
The Sword of Rhiannon
The Sword of Rhiannon is a science fiction novel by Leigh Brackett, set in her usual venue of Mars. A 1942 Brackett story, "The Sorcerer of Rhiannon", also uses the name; however, it is the name of a place rather than a character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Rhiannon
Starman Jones
Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_Jones
Star Rangers (novel)
Star Rangers, also known as The Last Planet, is a science-fiction novel written by Andre Norton and published on 1953 Aug 20 by Harcourt, Brace & Company. This is one of Norton’s Central Control books, which lay out the history of a galactic empire through events suggested by Norton’s understanding of Terran history (see also Star Guard).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Rangers_(novel)
Space Tug (novel)
Space Tug is a YA science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review in Galaxy, noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity." Boucher and McComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ; ; ; Leinster's adult work." P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tug_(novel)
Space Platform
Space Platform is a YA science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Platform
The Space Merchants
The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel, written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth in 1952. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine as a serial entitled Gravy Planet, the novel was first published as a single volume in 1953, and has sold heavily since. It deals satirically with a hyper-developed consumerism, seen through the eyes of an advertising executive. In 1984, Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
Space Lawyer
Space Lawyer is a science fiction novel by Nat Schachner. It was released in 1953 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from two short stories, "Old Fireball" and "Jurisdiction", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Lawyer
The Southpaw
The Southpaw was the first of the Henry Wiggen baseball novels by Mark Harris, published in 1953. Wiggen, star pitcher and narrator of the novel, tells of his early years in baseball and his debut with the New York Mammoths. It was followed by Bang the Drum Slowly (1956).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Southpaw
The Sixth Wife
The Sixth Wife is a 1953 historical novel by noted novelist Jean Plaidy. It recounts the tale of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII, King of England. The novel covers the life of Catherine as Queen, and her fearful feeling of being replaced in the King's eyes. Though the novel conveys Catherine's life, several other characters' lives are foreshadowed as well. Catherine's family play a key role including her sister Anne Parr Herbert, her stepdaughter Elizabeth, niece Jane Grey, doomed friend Anne Askew, rivals Thomas Wriothesley, Stephen Gardiner, Henry Howard, Anne Stanhope, Mary Howard Fitzroy the Dowager Duchess of Richmond and former romantic interest Thomas Seymour. The novel unfolds over a period of five years, recounting Catherine's rise as Queen Consort to her death as Dowager Queen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Wife
Simon (novel)
Simon is a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published in 1953. It is set during the English Civil War, and shows the effect of the conflict on two friends, who find themselves on opposite sides. It is her fifth novel, acknowledged to be the first in which she displayed the mastery of subject and style for which she is known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(novel)
The Silver Chair
The Silver Chair is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953. It was the fourth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956); it is volume six in recent editions, which are sequenced according to Narnian history. Like the others it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair
Shadrach (novel)
Shadrach by Meindert De Jong is a children's novel about a small boy and his pet rabbit. The novel, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was first published in 1953 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadrach_(novel)
Sentinels From Space
Sentinels From Space is a science-fiction novel written by Eric Frank Russell and first published in 1952 (Dec 15) by Bouregy & Curl, Inc., New York. It was adapted from a story that appeared in the Nov 1951 issue of Startling Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinels_From_Space
The Sensitive Man
The Sensitive Man is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson that was first published in the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe and reprinted in the 1981 collection The Psychotechnic League. The story is a component of the Psychotechnic League future history, and takes place in the year 2009, between "Un-Man" and "The Big Rain".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sensitive_Man
Second Foundation
Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in the in-universe chronology. It was first published in 1953 by Gnome Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Foundation
The Scarlet Letters
The Scarlet Letters is an English language novel published in 1953 by American author Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set primarily in New York City, USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letters
The Scarlet Frontier
The Scarlet Frontier is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the sixth in his Great South Land Saga of novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Frontier
Savage Night
Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Night
The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York
The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York is an historical novel by Leslie Barringer. It was first published by Phoenix House in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_in_Splendour:_a_Story_of_the_Wars_of_Lancaster_and_York
Rocket to Luna
Rocket to Luna is a juvenile science fiction novel by prolific author and screenwriter Evan Hunter (as Richard Marsten) published in 1953 by The John C. Winston Company with cover illustration by Alex Schomburg. The story follows the adventures of the main character Ted Baker after he mistakenly replaces a member of the first lunar expedition at the last moment before the rocket leaves for the moon. Rocket to Luna is a part of the Winston Science Fiction set, a series of juvenile novels which have become famous for their influence on young science fiction readers and their exceptional cover illustrations by award winning artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_to_Luna
The Ringmaster's Secret
The Ringmaster's Secret is the thirty-first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in late 1953 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringmaster%27s_Secret
Ring Out Bow Bells!
Ring Out Bow Bells! is a children's historical novel by Cynthia Harnett. It was first published in 1953, and later reprinted as The Drawbridge Gate. It is the story of an apprentice in the time of Henry V, when Dick Whittington was Lord Mayor of London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Out_Bow_Bells!
Ring for Jeeves
Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_for_Jeeves
Ring Around the Sun (novel)
Ring Around the Sun is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak. Its anti-urban and pro-agrarian sentiments are typical of much of Simak's work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Around_the_Sun_(novel)
The Return of Lanny Budd
The Return of Lanny Budd is the 11th and final novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1953, the story covers the period from 1946 to 1949.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Lanny_Budd
Querelle of Brest
Querelle of Brest (French: Querelle de Brest) is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder, and its protagonist is Georges Querelle. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, Querelle (1982).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Querelle_of_Brest
Queen Jezebel (novel)
Queen Jezebel is a 1953 historical novel by Jean Plaidy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Jezebel_(novel)
The Private Life of an Indian Prince
The Private Life of an Indian Prince is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1953. The book is classified as one of Anand's most impressive and important works. In keeping with his other writings dealing with the topic of social and political reform, this book deals with the abolition of the princely states system in India. While the novel is not an autobiography, like many of his earlier novels, it follows an autobiographical tone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_an_Indian_Prince
The Present and the Past
The Present and the Past (1953) is a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett about the head of a family who, although outwardly powerful and in charge, is suffering under the fact that he is being belittled and at some point even outright ignored by family and servants alike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Present_and_the_Past
Prelude to Space
Prelude to Space is a science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1947. However, it was not until 1951 that the story first appeared in magazine format from World Editions Inc as number three in the series Galaxy Science Fiction. Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a United States hardcover edition from Gnome Press and a paperback from Ballantine Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_Space
The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in The New Yorker in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954. The plot of The Ponder Heart follows Daniel Ponder, a wealthy heir, and is told through the narration of Edna Earle Ponder, Daniel's niece. In 1956, the story was made into a Broadway play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Una Merkel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Edna Earle Ponder in the Broadway play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ponder_Heart
A Pocket Full of Rye
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & co. the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple. Like several of Christie's novels (e.g., Hickory Dickory Dock, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) the title and substantial parts of the plot reference a nursery rhyme, in this case Sing a Song of Sixpence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pocket_Full_of_Rye
Planet of Light
Planet of Light, written by Raymond F. Jones, is a science-fiction novel first published in 1953 by the John C. Winston Co. as part of its 35-book set of juvenile novels. Written as a sequel to Son of the Stars, the story follows Ron Barron and his family as they are taken to a planet in the Great Galaxy of Andromeda to participate in a meeting of an intergalactic analogue of the United Nations. They face one question – Is Earth ready to join an intergalactic society?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_Light
The Outsider (Wright novel)
The Outsider is a novel by American author Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms. The kind of racism that Wright knew and experienced, a racism from which most black people of his own time could not escape, remained the central element in his fiction. The Outsider appeared during the height of McCarthyism in the United States and the advent of the Cold War in Europe, two events which had a significant bearing on its initial reception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(Wright_novel)
Otis Spofford
Otis Spofford is a 1953 children's novel by Beverly Cleary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Spofford
The Orchid House (novel)
The Orchid House was a book published in 1953, and the only novel written by Dominican writer Phyllis Shand Allfrey. It is considered "a pioneering work of Caribbean literature".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_House_(novel)
One in Three Hundred
One in Three Hundred is a science fiction novel written by J. T. McIntosh. It was originally published as three novellas in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1953-54 , and was then published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. During 1956 the novel was reissued by Ace as Ace Double D-113, in a dos-à-dos binding with Dwight V. Swain's The Transposed Man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_in_Three_Hundred
One (David Karp novel)
One is a dystopian novel by David Karp first published in 1953. It was also published under the title, Escape to Nowhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(David_Karp_novel)
Nothing to Make a Fuss About
Nothing to Make a Fuss About (French: Histoire d'un amour) is a 1953 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. The narrative is set in Paris right after World War I. It tells the story of a female ex-ambulance driver with a passion for the arts, who falls in love with a disillusioned Austrian painter, while she in turn is adored by a young woman. The novel was published in English in 1954, as part of an omnibus volume titled Children of Circumstance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_Make_a_Fuss_About
The Night of the Hunter (novel)
The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb. The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(novel)
The Narrows (Petry novel)
The Narrows is a 1953 novel by African-American writer Ann Petry. "The Narrows" is the name of the African-American section of the fictional town of Monmouth, Connecticut, in which most of the novel’s action takes place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Petry_novel)
The Mystery of Holly Lane
The Mystery of Holly Lane is a 1953 mystery novel by English author, Enid Blyton and the eleventh book in Enid Blyton's Mystery Series featuring the Five Find-Outers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Holly_Lane
Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse
Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse is a 1953 novel by Patrick Hamilton, the second in the Gorse Trilogy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Stimpson_and_Mr._Gorse
Mr Pye
Mr Pye is a short 1953 novel by English novelist Mervyn Peake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Pye
More Than Human
More Than Human is a 1953 science fiction novel by Theodore Sturgeon. It is a fix-up of his previously published novella Baby is Three with two parts (The Fabulous Idiot and Morality) written especially for the novel. It won the 1954 International Fantasy Award, which was also given to works in science fiction. It was additionally nominated in 2004 for a "Retro Hugo" award for the year 1954. Sci-fi critic and editor David Pringle included it in his book, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_Human
Mission of Gravity
Mission of Gravity is a science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The novel was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in April–July 1953. Its first hardcover book publication was in 1954, and it was first published as a paperback book in 1958. Along with the novel itself, many editions (and most recent editions) of the book also include "Whirligig World", an essay by Clement on creating the planet Mesklin that was first published in the June 1953 Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_of_Gravity
Missing Men of Saturn
Missing Men of Saturn is a juvenile science fiction novel, published first during 1953, by astronomer and author Robert S. Richardson as (Philip Latham) with cover illustration by Alex Schomburg. The story concerns Dale Sutton's mission to the dreaded planet Saturn from which no one has ever returned. Missing Men of Saturn is a part of the Winston Science Fiction set, a series of juvenile novels which have become famous for their influence on young science fiction readers and their exceptional cover illustrations by award winning artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Men_of_Saturn
The Marlows and the Traitor
In the introduction to the Girls Gone By edition of The Marlows and the Traitor, Antonia Forest admits she never intended to write a series of books about the Marlows. At the time of writing (the book was published in 1953) the Nuremberg Trials were happening and Forest decided to write a book about a traitor. Only then did it occur to her to use the Marlows in the book. The Marlows and the Traitor comes between Autumn Term and Falconer's Lure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marlows_and_the_Traitor
A Marcha das Utopias
A Marcha das Utopias is a Portuguese language novel by Brazilian author, Oswald de Andrade. It was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Marcha_das_Utopias
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw is a historical fiction children's book. It follows Mara, a young Egyptian girl who takes up a dangerous job as a double spy between two different masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara,_Daughter_of_the_Nile
Man of Many Minds
Man of Many Minds is a science fiction novel by author E. Everett Evans. It was first published in 1953 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 3,558 copies. The book includes an introduction by E. E. Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Many_Minds
Maigret's Mistake
Maigret's Mistake (French:Maigret se trompe) is a 1953 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. It was translated into English in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret%27s_Mistake
Maigret et l'homme du banc
Maigret et l'homme du banc (published in English variously as Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Maigret and the Man on the Bench and The Man on the Boulevard) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret_et_l%27homme_du_banc
Magic Maize
Magic Maize is a short children's novel written and illustrated by Mary and Conrad Buff. Set in contemporary Guatemala, it describes the life and adventures of a boy from a traditional Mayan Indian family. First published in 1953, it was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Maize
The Lying Days
The Lying Days is the debut novel of Nobel winning South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer. It was published in 1953 in London by Victor Gollancz and New York by Simon & Schuster. It is Gordimer's third published book, following two collections of short stories, Face to Face (1949), and The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952). The novel is semi-autobiographical, with the main character coming from a small mining town in Africa similar to Gordimer's own childhood. The novel is also a bildungsroman "about waking up from the naivete of a small colonial town."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lying_Days
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in November 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Starr_and_the_Pirates_of_the_Asteroids
Love for Lydia
Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel written by British author H. E. Bates, first published in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_for_Lydia
Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future is a 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who at the beginning of the story is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably high recidivism rate. Upon release, Plastic goes to work at a state-run euthanasia center. The centers are not restricted to the terminally ill and are so popular that Plastic's sole responsibility is to stem "the too eager rush" of perfectly healthy but "welfare weary" citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Among_the_Ruins._A_Romance_of_the_Near_Future
The Lotus and the Wind
The Lotus and the Wind is a spy novel by John Masters published in 1953. It continues his saga of the Savage family, who are part of the British Raj in India, and is set against the backdrop of the Great Game, the period of tension between Britain and Russia in Central Asia during the late nineteenth century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lotus_and_the_Wind
The Lost Planet (novel)
The Lost Planet is a 1953 juvenile science fiction novel by Angus MacVicar, published by Burke, London. It is the first of the popular novel series The Lost Planet, which was adapted for radio and television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Planet_(novel)
The Long Goodbye (novel)
The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler himself, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book" and recalled the agony of writing it while his wife was terminally ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(novel)
The Light in the Forest
The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates historic figures and is based in historical fact related to the late eighteenth century and period of the American Revolutionary War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_in_the_Forest
The Legion of the Damned (novel)
Legion of the Damned (original Danish title: Fordømtes Legion) is the first in a series of fourteen World War II novels written by Sven Hassel. The book covers a chronological period of a number of years, starting with the protagonist's arrest and time in German concentration camps, and ending with his being an officer and company commander on the Russian front. All of Sven Hassel's subsequent war stories, from a chronological point of view, fill in details omitted by this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legion_of_the_Damned_(novel)
The Last Parable
The Last Parable is a 1953 novel by Alec Coppel about the life and times of a judge. It differed from much of Coppel's usual output in that it was not a murder mystery or comedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Parable
The Kraken Wakes
The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback. The title is a reference to Alfred Tennyson's sonnet The Kraken. The eponymous kraken is a sea monster from Scandinavian folklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kraken_Wakes
A Kiss Before Dying (novel)
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1953 novel written by Ira Levin. It won the 1954 Edgar Award, for Best First Novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kiss_Before_Dying_(novel)
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a novel for children written by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has been frequently reprinted. In 2008 it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series with an introduction by David Almond (the award-winning author of Clay, Skellig, Kit's Wilderness and The Fire-Eaters), and the original illustrations by Lotte Reiniger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_and_His_Knights_of_the_Round_Table
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1953 novel by the British writer Wolf Mankowitz, based on the author's experiences of growing up within a Jewish community in London's East End.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kid_for_Two_Farthings
Junkie (novel)
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkie_(novel)
Jane and Prudence
Jane and Prudence is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953 and, according to the novelist Jilly Cooper, her finest work - "full of wit, plotting, characterization and miraculous observation".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_and_Prudence
In the Wet
In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in 1953. It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Shute yarn such as flying, the future, mystic states, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wet
In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin is the first and much acclaimed novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, originally published in 1953 by Michael Joseph in London, and subsequently published in New York by McGraw-Hill. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition. An autobiographical novel, set in the 1930s–'40s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised, In the Castle of My Skin follows the events in a young boy's life taking place against the background of dramatic changes in the society in which he lives. The book's title is taken from a Derek Walcott couplet: "You in the castle of your skin / I the swineherd."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Castle_of_My_Skin
Iceworld
Iceworld is a science fiction novel by author Hal Clement. It was published in 1953 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceworld
Hurry Home, Candy
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong is a children's novel about a dog. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the book was first published in 1953 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1954. It regularly appears on public library and school reading lists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurry_Home,_Candy
Hornblower and the Atropos
Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C.S. Forester.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornblower_and_the_Atropos
Hingede öö
Hingede öö (English: All Souls' Night or Night of Souls) is a novel by the Estonian author Karl Ristikivi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingede_%C3%B6%C3%B6
The High and the Mighty (novel)
The High and the Mighty is a 1953 novel by Ernest K. Gann based on a real-life trip that he flew as a commercial airline pilot for Matson Lines from Honolulu, Hawaii to Burbank, California. It was adapted into a film of the same name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_and_the_Mighty_(novel)
Heartsnatcher
Heartsnatcher (French: L'Arrache-cœur) is a 1953 novel by the French writer Boris Vian. It tells the story of a psychoanalyst who is newly arrived in a very superstitious village where absurd events occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartsnatcher
Gorse Trilogy
The Gorse Trilogy is a series of three novels, the last published works of the author Patrick Hamilton. The stories follow the anti-hero Ernest Ralph Gorse, whose heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles his victims. He is thought to have been based on the real-life con-man and murderer Neville George Heath, executed in 1946.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorse_Trilogy
Goldsborough (novel)
Goldsborough is a proletarian novel by the German-American writer Stefan Heym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsborough_(novel)
The Golden Spiders
The Golden Spiders is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. It was first published in 1953 by The Viking Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Spiders
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Between
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930's Harlem, and his relationship to his family and his church. The novel also reveals the back stories of John's mother, his biological father, and his violent, religious fanatic step-father, Gabriel Grimes. The novel focuses on the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, as a negative source of repression and moral hypocrisy and also as a positive source of inspiration and community. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Go Tell It on the Mountain 39th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Tell_It_on_the_Mountain_(novel)
Four Reigns
The Four Reigns (Thai สี่แผ่นดิน, Si Phaen Din), a novel by Kukrit Pramoj, shows how individuals in Thai society adjust to change in the face of historic events. The story first develops under the palace life of minor courtiers during a time of absolute monarchy and explicit observance of traditional Buddhist mores. The traditional values of the times are experienced by the main character and are enhanced by her surroundings. Throughout the evolving years the country experiences disturbances of World War I; the Palace Revolution of 1932 and World War II respectively. The book focuses primarily on the lives of the minor nobility and the necessary modes of adapting to unpreventable events that come by way of foreign and domestic conflicts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Reigns
Five Go Down to the Sea
Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Go_Down_to_the_Sea
Red Lights (novel)
Feux rouges (Red Lights) is the title of a short novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is among one of the author's roman durs or "hard novels".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lights_(novel)
The Fair Bride
The Fair Bride is a 1953 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fair_Bride
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperature of paper (In reality, scientists place the autoignition temperature of paper anywhere from high 440 degrees Fahrenheit to some 30 degrees hotter, depending on the study and type of paper).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
The Duplicated Man
The Duplicated Man is a science fiction novel which was one of the first fictional works that tackle the idea of cloning. It was co-written by James Blish and Robert Lowndes. The Duplicated Man was first published in the August 1953 edition of Dynamic Science Fiction and in book form, in 1959 by Avalon Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duplicated_Man
The Demolished Man
The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, is an American novel, science fiction and inverted detective story, that was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953. The story was first serialized in three parts, beginning with the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, followed by publication of the novel in 1953. The novel is dedicated to Galaxy's editor, H. L. Gold, who made suggestions during its writing. Bester's title was Demolition!, but Gold talked him out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demolished_Man
The Deep Six (novel)
The Deep Six is a 1953 novel by Martin Dibner (1911-1992) describing the experiences of a group of U.S. Navy sailors fighting in the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1943 during World War II. The novel, based on the author's experiences serving in the light cruiser USS Richmond during the same campaign, is written in a terse Hemingwayesque style and was a contemporary of Nicholas Monsarrat's novel The Cruel Sea and The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. The novel reached the New York Times Bestseller List for the week of September 6, 1953, ranked 16th in sales, and appeared six times on the list until October 18, fluctuating between 14th and 16th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_Six_(novel)
Cry Slaughter!
Cry Slaughter! is a 1957 novel by Filipino author Edilberto K. Tiempo. Before the novel’s revision for publication in the United States, it was first published in the Philippines as Watch in the Night in 1953. In the United States, the renamed novel was printed four times by Avon in New York City. In 1959, Cry Slaughter! was published and assigned the number R306 by Digit Books. It had been published as a hardbound book in London, England. It had been translated into six languages in other parts of Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Slaughter!
The Crisscross Shadow
The Crisscross Shadow is Volume 32 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisscross_Shadow
Cotillion (novel)
Cotillion is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer that was released in 1953. It is one of the most light-hearted of Heyer's romances, avoiding the mystery, intrigue, and sensational events present in many of her novels. The story is set in 1816.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotillion_(novel)
Conjure Wife
Conjure Wife (1943) is a supernatural horror novel by Fritz Leiber. Its premise is that witchcraft flourishes as an open secret among women. The story is told from the point of view of a small-town college professor who discovers that his wife is a witch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjure_Wife
The Clue of the Velvet Mask
The Clue of the Velvet Mask is the thirtieth volume in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was Mildred Benson's final ghostwrite for the series. The plot and story take place largely in Nancy's hometown of River Heights. Nancy tries to solve a mystery about a gang of event thieves robbing homes during parties, lectures, musicals, and other social occasions planned or catered by Lightner's Entertainment Company. Much of the original story contains elements of dramatic crime dramas; the villains are darker in tone than many other entries in the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clue_of_the_Velvet_Mask
Children of the Atom
Children of the Atom is a 1953 science fiction novel by Wilmar H. Shiras, which has been listed as one of "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002." The book is a collection and expansion of three earlier stories, the most famous of which is the novella "In Hiding" from 1948, which appeared on several "Best SF" lists. The book's plot focuses on superhuman children with immeasurably high intelligence who have to hide their youth, and work from hiding in order to get along in the less-intelligent world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Atom
Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End
The Charioteer
The Charioteer is a 1953 war novel by Mary Renault. It was first published in the United States in 1959. The Charioteer is significant because it features a prominent gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller within the gay community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charioteer
The Cavalier's Cup
The Cavalier's Cup is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery and the final appearance of the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cavalier%27s_Cup
Casino Royale (novel)
Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)
A Case of Conscience
A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by James Blish, first published in 1958. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion yet has a perfect, innate sense of morality, a situation which conflicts with Catholic teaching. The story was originally published as a novella in 1953, and later extended to novel-length, of which the first part is the original novella. The novel is the first part of Blish's thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy, followed by Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter, and The Day After Judgment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience
Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid
Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid is the fictionally embellished autobiography of Catherine "Caddie" Edmonds, who worked as a barmaid in Sydney during the Great Depression. Published anonymously in 1953 under Edmonds' nickname, which was coined by a lover who likened her to "the sleek body and class of his Cadillac motorcar", Caddie attracted wide critical acclaim upon its original publication in London, and became a bestseller when it was adapted into a feature film in 1976, one year after International Women's Year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddie,_the_Story_of_a_Barmaid
Burning Valley
Burning Valley is a 1953 coming-of-age novel by the American writer Phillip Bonosky set in the steel valley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1920s. It was originally published in the Communist Party publication Masses and Mainstream. In 1998 it was reprinted as part of the series "The Radical Novel Reconsidered" by the University of Illinois Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Valley
Bring the Jubilee
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history, with elements of steampunk (a word not coined until the 1980s). The point of divergence occurs in July 1863 when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southern Independence" on July 4, 1864, after the surrender of the United States of America. The novel takes place in the impoverished rump United States in the mid-20th century as war looms between the Confederacy and its rival, the German Union. History takes an unexpected turn when the protagonist Hodge Backmaker, a historian, decides to travel back in time to witness the moment when the South won the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_Jubilee
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Rand McNally (1953)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighty_of_the_Grand_Canyon
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (novel)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953) is a novella by American author James A. Michener. The book details the experiences of United States Navy pilots in the Korean War as they undertake a mission to destroy heavily protected bridges in enemy territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_at_Toko-Ri_(novel)
Black Wings Has My Angel
Black Wings Has My Angel is a fictional crime novel by American novelist Elliott Chaze, published by Gold Medal Books in 1953. It centers on an escaped convict, Tim Sunblade, and his plot to rob an armored truck while being wrapped up in a love/hate relationship with Virginia, a call girl he meets in Mississippi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wings_Has_My_Angel
Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue
Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (original Swedish title Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus) is the 3rd and last novel about the Swedish "master detective" Kalle Blomkvist, written by Astrid Lindgren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bergson_and_the_White_Rose_Rescue
Beyond This Place
Beyond This Place is a novel by Scottish author A. J. Cronin first published in 1950. The first Edition for Australia and New Zealand was in 1953. A serial version appeared in Collier's under the title of To Live Again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_This_Place
Battle Cry (Leon Uris novel)
Battle Cry is a novel by American writer Leon Uris, published in 1953. Many of the events in the book are based on Uris's own World War II experience with the 6th Marine Regiment. The story is largely told in first person from the viewpoint of the Battalion Communications Chief, "Mac," although it frequently shifts to third person in scenes where Mac is not personally present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Cry_(Leon_Uris_novel)
Attack from Atlantis
Attack From Atlantis (1953) is a science fiction novel written by Lester del Rey. The story follows the new U.S.S. Triton submarine on her maiden voyage, but trouble happens when the crew comes face to face with the inhabitants of the underwater city Atlantis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_from_Atlantis
Atta (novel)
Atta: A Novel of a Most Extraordinary Adventure is a science fiction novel by Francis Rufus Bellamy published in 1953. In 1954 the novel was published back-to-back with Murray Leinster's The Brain Stealers as Ace Double D-079.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta_(novel)
...And Now Miguel
...And Now Miguel is a novel by Joseph Krumgold that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1954. It deals with the life of Miguel Chavez, a 12-year-old Hispanic-American shepherd from New Mexico. It is also the title of a 1953 documentary directed by Krumgold. In 1966, a feature film adaptation was directed by James B. Clark and starred Pat Cardi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...And_Now_Miguel
And Never Said a Word
And Never Said a Word (German: Und sagte kein einziges Wort) is a novel by German author Heinrich Böll, published in 1953. The novel deals with the thoughts and actions of Fred and Käte Bogner, a married couple. Fred, feeling sick of the poverty of their house, has left her with their three children. They continue to meet on a casual basis every time Fred can find money enough to book a hotel room. As in numerous works from the German writer, the main theme is the situation in Germany after World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Never_Said_a_Word
All Alone (novel)
All Alone is a children's book by Claire Huchet Bishop, published by Viking Press with illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky in 1953. It was a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, which recognizes the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Alone_(novel)
The Alcoholics
The Alcoholics is a 1953 novel by Jim Thompson. The plot evolves around Dr. Peter S. Murphy and his clinic El Healtho where he treats alcoholics. It was re-released in the 1980s along with several other Thompson books under the Black Lizard imprint, by the Creative Arts Book Company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alcoholics
Against the Fall of Night
Against the Fall of Night is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Originally appearing as a novella in the November, 1948 issue of the magazine Startling Stories, it was revised and expanded in 1951 and published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press. It was later expanded and revised again and published in 1956 as The City and the Stars. A later edition includes another of Clarke's early works and is titled The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night. In 1990, with Clarke's approval, Gregory Benford wrote a sequel titled Beyond the Fall of Night which continues the story arc of the 1953 novel. It is generally printed with the original novel as a single volume.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Fall_of_Night
After the Funeral
After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Funeral
The African Child
The African Child, originally written in French and published in 1953 as l’enfant noir, is an autobiographical novel, written by Camara Laye. It tells the story of a young African child, Baba, growing up in Guinea. The novel won the Prix Charles Veillon writing prize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Child
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. It features the eponymous Augie March who grows up during the Great Depression and it is an example of bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to manhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Augie_March
The Abyss of Wonders
The Abyss of Wonders is a science fiction novel by author Perley Poore Sheehan. It was first published in book form in 1953 by Polaris Press in an edition of 990 copies. It was the second and final book published by Polaris Press and included an introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Argosy in 1915.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss_of_Wonders
Abeltje
Abeltje is a children's novel by celebrated Dutch author Annie M. G. Schmidt, originally published in 1953 by De Arbeiderspers. It was one of Annie M. G. Schmidt's first children's books, and such an instant success that it was already in its fourth edition when the sequel, De A van Abeltje, came out in 1955. Since 1988, the book has been published by Querido with illustrations by Thé Tjong-Khing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeltje
7½ Cents
7½ Cents is a 1953 novel by Richard Bissell, his third book and second novel. It was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. With George Abbott, Bissell adapted it into the musical The Pajama Game, which was a hit on Broadway and won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%C2%BD_Cents
Worlds of Tomorrow
Worlds of Tomorrow is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1953. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Worlds Beyond, Fantastic, Fantasy, The Magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction, If, Fantastic Adventures, Future, Startling Stories, Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, The Fantasy Fan and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Abridged editions were published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1955, Berkley Books in 1958 and Four Square Books in 1963.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Tomorrow
The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales is a 1953 collection of stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers. An E-book edition was published as The Tritonian Ring and Other Pasudian Tales by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form; however, despite the title, the e-edition includes The Tritonian Ring only; the other tales are omitted. The pieces were originally published between 1951 and 1953 in the magazines and anthologies Two Complete Science Adventure Books, Fantasy Fiction, Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, and Fantastic Adventures. The title story, the novel The Tritonian Ring has also been published separately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tritonian_Ring_and_Other_Pusadian_Tales
Tales from Gavagan's Bar
Tales from Gavagan's Bar is a collection of short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, illustrated by the latter's wife Inga Pratt. It was first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers in 1953; an expanded edition retaining the original illustrations was published by Owlswick Press in 1978 and subsequently issued in paperback (without the illustrations) by Bantam Books in 1980. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. The pieces were originally published between 1950 and 1954, mostly in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Gavagan%27s_Bar
Strange Worlds (collection)
Strange Worlds is a collection of a science fiction novel and two science fiction novellas by Ralph Milne Farley. It was first published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of Farley's earlier books, The Radio Man and The Hidden Universe. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Argosy and the novellas originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Worlds_(collection)
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2 is the second book in the anthology series, Star Science Fiction Stories, edited by Frederik Pohl. It was first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Science_Fiction_Stories_No.2
Star Science Fiction Stories No.1
Star Science Fiction Stories No.1 is the first book in the anthology series, Star Science Fiction Stories, edited by Frederik Pohl. It was first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books, without numeration, and was reprinted in 1972 as "No. 1". The book featured the first appearance of Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "The Nine Billion Names of God".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Science_Fiction_Stories_No.1
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction is a collection of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp, edited by H. J. Campbell. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback in 1953 by Panther Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprague_de_Camp%27s_New_Anthology_of_Science_Fiction
Someone Like You (collection)
Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(collection)
Shambleau and Others
Shambleau and Others is a 1953 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. The book was originally announced by Arkham House but never published by them. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambleau_and_Others
Science-Fantasy Quintette
Science-Fantasy Quintette is a collection of science fiction short stories by authors L. Ron Hubbard and Ed Earl Repp and edited by William L. Crawford. It was published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of Repp's The Radium Pool and Hubbard's Triton. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Unknown, Amazing Stories, Fantasy Book and Science Wonder Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-Fantasy_Quintette
Revolt in 2100
Revolt in 2100 is a 1953 collection by Robert A. Heinlein and is part of his Future History series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_in_2100
Paranoia (Hermans book)
Paranoia is a 1953 short story collection by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans. The titular story was adapted into the 1967 film Paranoia, directed by Adriaan Ditvoorst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(Hermans_book)
The Other Place (Priestley)
The Other Place, subtitled "And Other Stories of the Same Sort", is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by J. B. Priestley published in hardcover by Harper & Brothers and Heinemann in 1953. The title story, original to the collection, was adapted as an episode of the television series Westinghouse Studio One in 1958, starring Cedric Hardwicke as "a sorcerer with chin whiskers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Place_(Priestley)
Nine Stories (Salinger)
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Stories_(Salinger)
Mutant (collection)
Mutant is a 1953 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_(collection)
El Llano en llamas
El Llano en Llamas (translated into English as "The Burning Plain and other Stories" and as "The Plain in Flames") is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo and first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Llano_en_llamas
King Conan
King Conan is a collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1953. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales. The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Conan" collections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Conan
The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories (32 in the 1997 edition) by Ray Bradbury; it was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Apples_of_the_Sun
From Death to the Stars
From Death to the Stars is a collection of a fantasy novel and science fiction short stories by L. Ron Hubbard. It was published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus edition of Hubbard's Death's Deputy and The Kingslayer. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Unknown and Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Death_to_the_Stars
Expedition to Earth
Expedition to Earth (ISBN 0-7221-2423-6) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_to_Earth
Eleven Blue Men
Eleven Blue Men, and Other Narratives of Medical Detection is an award winning collection of twelve true short stories written by Berton Roueché and published in 1953. Each story, including the titular story Eleven Blue Men, was originally published in the "Annals of Medicine" section of The New Yorker between 1947 and 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven_Blue_Men
E Pluribus Unicorn
E Pluribus Unicorn is a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1953 by Abelard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Unicorn
Death in Midsummer and other stories
Death in Midsummer and other stories is a 1953 collection of stories by Yukio Mishima translated into English in 1966. It contains one play, Dōjōji, based on a Nō drama of that name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Midsummer_and_other_stories
The Curse of Yig (book)
The Curse of Yig is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and essays by author Zealia Bishop. It was released in 1953 and was the author's only collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 1,217 copies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Yig_(book)
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens is a 1953 collection of stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, the fifth book in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It was first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers, and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971 with a cover by illustrator Bob Pepper. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. It has also been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian. The pieces were originally published between 1949 and 1951 in the magazines Astounding Science-Fiction, Startling Stories, Future Combined with Science Fiction, and Thrilling Wonder Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continent_Makers_and_Other_Tales_of_the_Viagens
The Coming of Conan
The Coming of Conan is a collection of eight fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Kull and Conan the Barbarian, together with the first part of his pseudo-history of the "Hyborian Age" in which the Conan tales were set. It was first published in hardcover in the United States by Gnome Press in 1953 and by Boardman Books in the United Kingdom in 1954. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales. The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Kull" and "Conan" collections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_of_Conan
Children of Wonder
Children of Wonder is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories edited by William Tenn, published in hardcover by Simon and Schuster in 1953. It was reprinted in paperback in 1954 by Permabooks, under the title Outsiders: Children of Wonder. The only anthology edited by Tenn, its stories feature children with superhuman or supernatural talents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Wonder
The Black Star Passes
The Black Star Passes is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author John W. Campbell, Jr.. It was first published in 1953 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,951 copies. The book is the first in Campbell's Arcot, Morey and Wade series. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Amazing Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly, and were "extensively edited" for book publication, with Campbell's approval, by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Star_Passes
Assignment in Eternity
Assignment in Eternity, is a collection of four mixed science fiction and fantasy novellas by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1953, with some of the stories somewhat revised from their original magazine publications, as follows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_in_Eternity
Ahead of Time
Ahead of Time is a collection of science fiction stories by Henry Kuttner, first published in hardcover by Ballantine Books in 1953 (with a paperback edition shortly afterwards). A British hardcover appeared in 1954, with a paperback following in 1961. Paperback reissues of both the UK and US editions appeared in the mid-1960s. A French translation appeared in 1962, and an Italian translation in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahead_of_Time

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Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953
First edition dust jacket
Editors	E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Published	1953 (Frederick Fell)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	331
Preceded by	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952
Followed by	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954

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Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction novels and novellas edited by E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by The Bodley Head in 1955 under the title Category Phoenix. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories.
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Writing Degree Zero
Writing Degree Zero (French: Le degré zéro de l'écriture) is a book of literary criticism by Roland Barthes. First published in 1953, it was Barthes' first full-length book and was intended, as Barthes writes in the introduction, as "no more than an Introduction to what a History of Writing might be."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_Degree_Zero
When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter which studied a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent Apocalypse and its coping mechanisms after the event did not occur. Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance can account for the psychological consequences of disconfirmed expectations. One of the first published cases of dissonance was reported in this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
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A Very Special House
A Very Special House, written by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, is a 1953 picture book published by HarperCollins. A Very Special House was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for 1954 and was Sendak's first Caldecott Honor Medal of a total of seven during his career. Sendak won the Caldecott Medal in 1964 for Where the Wild Things Are, which he both authored and Illustrated. A Very Special House was re-issued by HarperCollins in 2001 in hardcover format as part of a project to re-issue 22 Sendak works including several authored by Ruth Krauss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Special_House
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions is a 1953 book, which explains the twenty-four basic principles or Alcoholics Anonymous and their application., and contains a detailed interpretation of principles for personal recovery and group survival. Bill W began work on this project in early 1952. By 1957, 50,000 copies were in circulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Steps_and_Twelve_Traditions
Tomorrow, the Stars
Tomorrow, the Stars is an anthology of speculative fiction short stories, presented as edited by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow,_the_Stars
The Boy Who Saw True (book)
The Boy Who Saw True (Originally published Neville Spearman, 1953 ) with an introduction, afterword and notes by Cyril Scott, is the allegedly true diary of a young Victorian boy with clairvoyant gifts. Born with unusual talents, the anonymous author could apparently see auras and spirits, yet failed to realise that other people were not similarly gifted. "In consequence he was misunderstood, and had to suffer many indignities."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Saw_True_(book)
A Tally of Types
A Tally of Types is a book in the field of typography, authored by the type designer Stanley Morison in 1953, showcasing significant typeface designs produced during his tenure at the Lanston Monotype Corporation for their hot metal typesetting machines during the 1920s and 1930s in England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tally_of_Types
Straight and Crooked Thinking
Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather than a theoretical one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking
A Stillness at Appomattox
A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is an award-winning, non-fiction book written by Bruce Catton. It recounts the American Civil War's final year, describing the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia during 1864 to the end of the war in 1865. It is the final volume of the Army of the Potomac trilogy that includes Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951) and Glory Road (1952).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Stillness_at_Appomattox
The Spirit of St. Louis (book)
The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). The book was published on September 14, 1953, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_St._Louis_(book)
The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure
The Silent World (subtitle: A story of undersea discovery and adventure, by the first men to swim at record depths with the freedom of fish) is a 1953 book co-authored by Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frédéric Dumas and edited by James Dugan. Although a French national, Cousteau wrote the book in English. Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943 off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters Cousteau recounts the earliest days of scuba diving with his diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Philippe Tailliez. The aqualung allowed for the first time untethered free-floating extended deep water diving and ushered in the modern era of scuba diving. Later chapters include excursions diving ship wrecks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_World:_A_Story_of_Undersea_Discovery_and_Adventure
Scuppers The Sailor Dog
Scuppers The Sailor Dog (or simply The Sailor Dog) is a children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was originally published in 1953 by Golden Books. The 2001 edition lacks four pages of color illustrations and text found in the original 1953 edition as well as the cover illustration from the original (replaced by the illustration from Page 23). An interactive CD-ROM version was published in 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppers_The_Sailor_Dog
Scrambled Eggs Super!
Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 book by American children's author Dr. Seuss. It tells of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs of various exotic birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambled_Eggs_Super!
Science Fiction Carnival
Science Fiction Carnival is an anthology of humorous science fiction stories edited by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds. It was published by Shasta Publishers in 1953 in an edition of 3,500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Super Science Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Astounding, Worlds Beyond, Slant, Imagination, Space Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Blue Book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Carnival
Science and Sorcery
Science and Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories edited by Garret Ford (a pseudonym for William L. Crawford). It was published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in 1953 in an edition of 500 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy Book. Others appeared in the magazines Thrilling Wonder Stories, The Vortex and Weird Tales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Sorcery
The Robot and the Man
The Robot and the Man is a 1953 anthology of science fiction short stories regarding robots edited by Martin Greenberg. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Astounding and Galaxy Science Fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robot_and_the_Man
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (German: Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik) is a book of Ludwig Wittgenstein's notes on the philosophy of mathematics. It has been translated from German to English by G.E.M. Anscombe, edited by G.H. von Wright and Rush Rhees, and published first in 1956. The text has been produced from passages in various sources by selection and editing. The notes have been written during the years 1937-1944 and a few passages are incorporated in the Philosophical Investigations which were composed later. When the book appeared it received many negative reviews mostly from working logicians and mathematicians, among them Michael Dummett, Paul Bernays, and Georg Kreisel. Today Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics is read mostly by philosophers sympathetic to Wittgenstein and they tend to adopt a more positive stance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remarks_on_the_Foundations_of_Mathematics
Quadratic (collection)
Quadratic is a collection of four science fiction works by Olaf Stapledon and Murray Leinster. It was edited by William L. Crawford and published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of Stapledon's Worlds of Wonder and Leinster's Murder Madness, created by combining unbound sheets from the publisher's previous editions of the two volumes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_(collection)
The Principal Upanishads
The Principal Upanishads is a 1953 book written Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), then Vice President of India (and later President of India), about the main Upanishads, which carry central teachings of the Vedanta. Originally published in 1953 by Harper, the book has been republished several times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_Upanishads
Poems (Hesse)
Poems is a collection of 31 poems written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1899 and 1921. They were selected and translated to English by James Wright in 1970 from Die Gedichte, which was published in German in 1953. This collection was first published in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_(Hesse)
Performing Flea
Performing Flea is a non-fiction book, consisting of a series of letters written by P. G. Wodehouse to William Townend, a friend of Wodehouse's since their schooldays together at Dulwich College. It was originally published in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The title alludes to a disparaging comment by the playwright Seán O'Casey, who, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph in July 1941, referring to Wodehouse's radio broadcasts from Berlin, wrote that "If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_Flea
Old Men Forget
Old Men Forget is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature and politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Men_Forget
Neue Deutsche Biographie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Biographie
Men Among the Ruins
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Among_the_Ruins
The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 Second World War war film, based on the book of the same name by Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu and dramatising actual events. The film was directed by Ronald Neame and starred Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame and Robert Flemyng. It is about Operation Mincemeat, a 1943 British Intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, would take place elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was
Madeline's Rescue
Madeline's Rescue is a book by Ludwig Bemelmans, the second in the Madeline series. Released by Viking Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline%27s_Rescue
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953 jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian Chromatic Concept (LCC), or Lydian Chromatic Theory (LCT). Russell's work postulates that all music is based on the tonal gravity of the Lydian mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_Chromatic_Concept_of_Tonal_Organization
Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker
Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker is a Lucky Luke comic by Morris, it was the fifth album in the series and was printed by Dupuis in 1953.
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Le Livre de poche
Le Livre de Poche (literally "The Pocket Book") is the name of a collection of literature which appeared 9 February 1953 under the leadership of Henri Filipacchi and published by the Librairie générale française, a subsidiary of Hachette.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Livre_de_poche
The Little Red Caboose
The Little Red Caboose is a children's book by Marian Potter and illustrated by Tibor Gergely, first published in 1953. It tells the story of a caboose who longs to be as popular as the steam engine at the front of the train, and gains the respect and admiration of all when it saves the train from rolling down a mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Caboose
A Life for Hungary
Ein Leben für Ungarn (English: A Life for Hungary) are the memoirs of Nikolaus von Horthy (also known as Miklós Horthy), Regent of Hungary. They were published in German under the name of Nikolaus von Horthy when he was exiled in Portugal after World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Life_for_Hungary
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones. The most famous biography of Freud, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was originally published in three volumes (first volume 1953, second volume 1955, third volume 1957); a one-volume edition abridged by literary critics Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus followed in 1961. Although his biography has retained its status as a classic, Jones has been criticized for presenting an overly-favorable image of Freud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Work_of_Sigmund_Freud
Kinsey Reports
The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others and published by Saunders. Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University and the founder of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction (more widely known as the Kinsey Institute).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Reports
Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger)
Introduction to Metaphysics (German: Einführung in die Metaphysik) is a book by Martin Heidegger, the published version of a lecture course he gave in the summer of 1935 at the University of Freiburg. The content of these lectures was not published in Germany until 1953. Heidegger commended this book along with his work Being and Time (1927), as summarising his views at that time (1953) on ontology. The work has been widely regarded as "indelibly fascist in character."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Metaphysics_(Heidegger)
Indian Tales
Indian Tales is a collection of connected short narratives written and illustrated by Jaime de Angulo, published by A. A. Wyn in 1953. The stories revolve around an anthropomorphic animal family traveling across California, and encountering various mythological figures, such as Old Man Coyote, Loon Woman, and various animal tribes who live as the indigenous peoples of California did in pre-European times. The book is an imaginative retelling of many of the folktales and myths collected by de Angulo as an erstwhile anthropologist. The stories are written to be of interest to younger readers, but are also read by adults. The books foreword is by Carl Carmer. The Indian Tales were originally read live on KPFA radio in 1949, and released as a recording. The book has been used as a text in California history classes. De Angulo writes in the foreword,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Tales
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homecoming_of_Beorhtnoth_Beorhthelm%27s_Son
The Hill of Devi
The Hill of Devi is an account by E. M. Forster of two visits to India in 1912-1913 and 1921, during which he worked as the private secretary to Tukojirao III, the Maharaja of the state of Dewas Senior. The book was first published in 1953. E. M. Forster derived inspiration for the book from the famous hill-top temple of the Hindu Mother Goddess "Devi".The story is based in pre-independence India in a non-descript kingdom in the central part of the country, Dewas. The book offers an insight into the life of Indian royalty as it skillfully revolves around the internal feud between two scions of the ruling family of Dewas. The 1924 novel "A Passage to India" should be read along with this book: it makes a complete experience. The hill is immediately north of the old town in Dewas, at 22.97 degrees north, 76.06 degrees east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_of_Devi
The Hedgehog and the Fox
'The Hedgehog and the Fox' is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. It was one of Berlin's most popular essays with the general public. Berlin himself said of the essay: 'I never meant it very seriously. I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken seriously. Every classification throws light on something.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
Flying Saucers from Outer Space
Flying Saucers from Outer Space (Holt, 1953) is a non-fiction book by Donald Keyhoe about unidentified flying objects, aka UFO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucers_from_Outer_Space
Fantasy Twin
Fantasy Twin is a collection of fantasy novels by L. Sprague de Camp and Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of de Camps's The Undesired Princess and Weinbaum's The Dark Other, created by combining unbound sheets from the publisher's previous editions of the two volumes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Twin
The Facts of Life (book)
The Facts of Life is a book published in 1953 by C. D. Darlington of the subject of race, heredity and evolution. Darlington was a major contributor to the field of genetics around the time of the Modern synthesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facts_of_Life_(book)
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web-based publication that contains statistics for 7,469 languages and dialects in its 18th edition, which was released in 2015. Of these, 7,102 are listed as living and 367 are listed as extinct Up until the 16th edition in 2009, the publication was a printed volume. Ethnologue provides information on the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations, availability of the Bible in each language and dialect described, and an estimate of language viability using the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue
Essays in Positive Economics
Milton Friedman's book Essays in Positive Economics (1953) is a collection of earlier articles by the author with as its lead an original essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics," on which this article focuses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_in_Positive_Economics
The Economic System In Islam
The Economic System In Islam is a book written by Taqiuddin an-Nabhani originally written and published in Arabic in 1953 and translated into English and other languages. It explains the Islamic views on economy and its contradictions with Western-based capitalism and socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_System_In_Islam
Early Netherlandish Painting (Panofsky)
Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character, is a 1953 book on art history by Erwin Panofsky, derived from the 1947-48 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. The book had a wide impact on studies of Renaissance art and Early Netherlandish painting in particular, but also studies in iconography, art history, and intellectual history in general. The book is particularly well-known for its iconographic treatment of Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait as a kind of marriage contract. The book remains influential despite its reliance on black-and-white reproductions of paintings, which led to some errors of analysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Netherlandish_Painting_(Panofsky)
Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851
The Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 is a biographical dictionary of sculptors active in Britain in the period between the Restoration of Charles II and the Great Exhibition of 1851. It has appeared in three editions, published in 1953, 1968, and 2009 respectively: the 2009 edition adopts the amended title, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660–1851. The first two editions were researched and written by Rupert Forbes Gunnis, and were often known simply as Gunnis. The third edition was edited by Ingrid Roscoe. The book is a major scholarly work, which rapidly established itself as a standard authority on British sculptors and sculpture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_British_Sculptors_1660%E2%80%931851
Destination Moon (comics)
Destination Moon (French: Objectif Lune) is the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from March to September 1950 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953. The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is working on a top-secret project in a secure government facility to plan a manned mission to the Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Moon_(comics)
Crossroads in Time
Crossroads in Time is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Permabooks in November 1953. It has also been translated into Spanish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_in_Time
The Complete Book of Outer Space
The Complete Book of Outer Space is a 1953 collection of essays about space exploration edited by Jeffrey Logan. It first appeared as a magazine, published by Maco Magazine Corp. The first book publication was by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 3,000 copies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Book_of_Outer_Space
The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig
The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953) is the brief 21st book in the humorous American children's series Freddy the Pig (1927 to 1958). The entire series, which otherwise comprises 25 novels, was written by Walter R. Brooks, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, and published by Alfred A. Knopf. The Collected Poems is primarily a reissue of poems and songs that had appeared in the first 20 novels, although it contains some new poems by Brooks and new illustrations by Wiese. One cover notes, "If it seems a bit hammy in spots, that is to be expected." It was republished in 1962 by Random House, and again in 2001 by the Overlook Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Poems_of_Freddy_the_Pig
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind (Polish: Zniewolony umysł) is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer, academic and Nobel laureate, Czesław Miłosz, translated into English by Jane Zielonko and originally published by Secker and Warburg. The book was written soon after the author received political asylum in Paris following his break with Poland's Communist government. It draws upon his experiences as an underground writer during World War II, and his position within the political and cultural elite of Poland in the immediate post-war years. The book attempts to explain both the intellectual allure of Stalinism and the temptation of collaboration with the Stalinist regime among intellectuals in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. Miłosz describes the book as having been written "under great inner conflict".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind
Bring on the Girls!
Bring on the Girls! is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on 5 October 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_on_the_Girls!
Borges on Martín Fierro
Borges on Martín Fierro concerns Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges's comments on José Hernández's nineteenth century poem Martín Fierro. Like most of his compatriots, Borges was a great admirer of this work, which he often characterized as the one clearly great work in Argentine literature. Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered (beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception - El "Martín Fierro" (written with Margarita Guerrero) - gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borges_on_Mart%C3%ADn_Fierro
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1955 under the title The Best Science Fiction Stories: Fourth Series. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction and Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Science_Fiction_Stories:_1953
Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology
Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology is a popular introductory textbook on psychology written originally by Ernest Hilgard, Richard C. Atkinson and Rita L. Atkinson and edited and revised by Edward E. Smith, Daryl J. Bem, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Geoff R. Loftus and Willem A. Wagenaar. Sixteen editions of Introduction to Psychology have been published between 1953 and 2014. The text is organized around the major discoveries of psychology research and is strongly biological in its approach to psychology. Eventually the book was translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_%26_Hilgard%27s_Introduction_to_Psychology
Amateur Telescope Making
Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) is a series of three books edited by Albert G. Ingalls between 1926 and 1953 while he was an associate editor at Scientific American. The books cover various aspects of telescope construction and observational technique, sometimes at quite an advanced level, but always in a way that is accessible to the intelligent amateur. The caliber of the contributions is uniformly high and the books have remained in constant use by both amateurs and professionals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Telescope_Making
333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel
333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel is a bibliography of English science fiction and fantasy books compiled and edited by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr., James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant. It was first published by The Grandon Company in an edition of 450 paperback and 50 hardback copies. The hardback was issued without jacket. The book gives plot descriptions of 333 novels published prior to 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/333:_A_Bibliography_of_the_Science-Fantasy_Novel
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea
Picnic (play)
Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. The play was premiered at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway, on 19 February 1953 in a Theatre Guild production, directed by Joshua Logan, which ran for 477 performances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(play)
Secret of the Andes
Secret of the Andes is a children's novel by Ann Nolan Clark. It won the 1953 Newbery Medal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Andes
Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man_(novel)
John Moore (British Army officer)
American War of Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore_(British_Army_officer)
A Valley Grows Up
A Valley Grows Up is a history book for children, written and illustrated by Edward Osmond and published by Oxford University Press in 1953. It features an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BCE to 1900. Osmond won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. In more than seventy years only a handful of nonfiction books have been so honoured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Valley_Grows_Up
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations (German: Philosophische Untersuchungen) is a highly influential work by the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In it, Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of mind. He puts forth the view that conceptual confusions surrounding language use are at the root of most philosophical problems, contradicting or discarding much of what he argued in his earlier work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet: My Life Before, During and After (1952; German: Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama; 1954 in English) is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet
The Overloaded Ark
The Overloaded Ark, first published in 1953, is the debut book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It is the chronicle of a six months collecting trip to the West African colony of British Cameroon - now Cameroon - (Dec 1947 - Aug 1948) - that Durrell made with the highly regarded aviculturist and ornithologist John Yealland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overloaded_Ark
Science-Fiction Handbook
Science-Fiction Handbook is a guide to writing and marketing science fiction and fantasy by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, "one of the earliest books about modern sf." The original edition by L. Sprague de Camp alone, subtitled The Writing of Imaginative Fiction, was published in hardcover by Hermitage House in 1953 as a volume in its Professional Writers Library series. A revised edition, credited to both authors, titled Science Fiction Handbook, Revised, was published in hardcover by Owlswick Press in 1975 and as a trade paperback by McGraw-Hill in 1977. An E-book version of the revised edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on April 30, 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-Fiction_Handbook
Era of Good Feelings
The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The era saw the collapse of the Federalist Party and an end to the bitter partisan disputes between it and the dominant Democratic-Republican Party during the First Party System. President James Monroe strove to downplay partisan affiliation in making his nominations, with the ultimate goal of national unity and eliminating parties altogether from national politics. The period is so closely associated with Monroe's presidency (1817–1825) and his administrative goals that his name and the era are virtually synonymous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Era_of_Good_Feelings
Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950 was a poetry anthology edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, and first published in 1953 by Faber and Faber. A selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse, it did not attempt to cover American poetry (beyond Eliot and Pound). It has been through numerous further editions. It was last issued as a hardback in St. Clair Shores, Michigan by Somerset Publishers Inc. in 1988 with ISBN 0-403-07212-3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faber_Book_of_Twentieth_Century_Verse
The Marriage (Gombrowicz play)
The Marriage (Polish: Ślub) is a play by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, written in Argentina after World War II. The narrative takes place in a dream, where the dreamer transforms into a king and plans to marry his fiancée in a royal wedding, only as a means to save their integrity. A Spanish translation was first published in 1948, followed by the original Polish version in 1953. The play was first performed in 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_(Gombrowicz_play)
The Fire Raisers (play)
The Fire Raisers (German: Biedermann und die Brandstifter), also known in English as The Firebugs, Firebugs, or The Arsonists, was written by Max Frisch in 1953, first as a radio play, then adapted for television and the stage (1958) as a play in six scenes. It was revised in 1960 to include an epilogue, or afterpiece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)
Witness for the Prosecution (play)
Witness for the Prosecution is a play adapted by Agatha Christie from her short story. The play opened in London on 28 October 1953 at the Winter Garden Theatre (although the first performance had actually been in Nottingham on 28 September). It was produced by Peter Saunders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_for_the_Prosecution_(play)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictures. Dennis Weaver and Earl Holliman make early screen roles in the motion picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_at_Toko-Ri
The Robe
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion of Jesus written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, and four weeks later rose to No. 1. It held the position for nearly a year. The Robe remained on the list for another two years, returning several other times over the next several years including when the film adaptation (featuring Richard Burton in an early role) was released in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robe
Maud Martha
Maud Martha is the only novella written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Published in 1953 by Harper & Brothers and reprinted by Third World Press, it includes a series of vignettes following the titular character Maud Martha as she negotiates the passage from childhood to adulthood in black Chicago neighbourhoods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Martha
Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son
Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son subtitled The Writings of an Orphan Boy (מאָטל פּייסי דעם חזנס; כתבֿים פֿון אַ ייִנגל אַ יתום — motl peysi dem khazns; ksovim fun a yingl a yosem) was the last novel by the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, and unfinished at the time of his death. It was published in two separate volumes. The first was headed From Home to America (פֿון דער היים קיין אַמעריקע — fun der heym keyn amerike), relating the protagonist's experiences in Europe, and appearing in 1907. The second was headed In America, (אין אַמעריקע — in amerike), chronicling his life in New York City, and written in 1916. They were printed on numerous occasions in various formats and with differing orthographic conventions. A representative edition is located at https://archive.org/download/nybc200058/nybc200058.pdf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Mottel_the_Cantor%27s_Son
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many interpretations since the play's 1953 premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century". Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The première was on 5 January 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_For_Godot
Who He?
Who He (also published as The Rat Race) is a novel by science fiction author Alfred Bester, published in 1953. The book was republished in 2007 and as of 2015 is available for purchase from Wildside Press. It provides a detailed if somewhat madcap view of the early days of television production in New York City before most tv production moved west to California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_He%3F
Watt (novel)
Watt was Samuel Beckett's second published novel in English, largely written on the run in the south of France during the Second World War and published by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press in 1953 (an extract had been published in the Dublin literary review, Envoy, in 1950). A French translation followed in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_(novel)
The Virgin of Zesh
The Virgin of Zesh is a science fiction novella written by L. Sprague de Camp, the fourth book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and the third of its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. Chronologically it is the fifth Krishna novel.It was first published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories for February 1953. It was first published in book form together with The Wheels of If in the paperback collection The Virgin & the Wheels by Popular Library in 1976. For the later standard edition of Krishna novels it was published together with The Tower of Zanid in the paperback collection The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid by Ace Books in 1983. The first stand-alone edition was published as an E-book by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_of_Zesh
The Victorian Chaise-Longue
The Victorian Chaise-Longue (1953) is a novella by the English novelist Marghanita Laski. Published in 1953, the book describes the experience of an invalided young woman who wakes up in the body of her alter-ego eighty years previously. Described by Anthony Boucher as 'relentlessly terrifying', and as 'disturbing and compulsive' by Penelope Lively, the novella plays on the fear of the unexpected and unknown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Chaise-Longue
La Vallée infernale
La Vallée infernale is the first novel in the Bob Morane series, written by the Belgian novelist Henri Vernes. It was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vall%C3%A9e_infernale
Up Ferguson Way
A fictional work (from 1953) by Pulitzer-prize winner Louis Bromfield, Up Ferguson Way would epitomize Bromfield's work. First appearing as a chapter in Pleasant Valley, Up Ferguson Way was set at the high-meadowed prairie at Malabar Farm that bore its name. William Ferguson was one of the earliest settlers to the valley. He had crossed the Alleghenies and struck a partnership with the native Delaware tribes in the area. Later, the log cabin in which he resided during these fur trading expeditions became his permanent home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Ferguson_Way
The Unnamable (novel)
The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It is the third and final entry in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels, which begins with Molloy followed by Malone Dies. It was originally published in French as L'Innommable and later adapted by the author into English. Grove Press published the English edition in 1958.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unnamable_(novel)
The Universe Maker
The Universe Maker is a science fiction novel by American author A.E. van Vogt, published in 1953 by Ace Books. It takes place 400 years into the future. The main character is Morton Cargill, a U.S. army officer who served in the Korean War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_Maker
The Undying Fire (Pratt novel)
The Undying Fire is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1953. The novel has also been translated into Italian. The book is an expansion of the author's novella "The Conditioned Captain," originally published in the magazine Startling Stories in the issue for May, 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undying_Fire_(Pratt_novel)
The Unconquered (novel)
The Unconquered was a 1953 novel by Ben Ames Williams. It was Williams' final novel, completed in January 1953 less than a month before his death. It is a sequel to his House Divided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unconquered_(novel)
Trans-Atlantyk
Trans-Atlantyk is a novel by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, originally published in 1953. The semi-autobiographical plot of the novel closely tracks Gombrowicz's own experience in the years during and just after the outbreak of World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Atlantyk
Too Late the Phalarope
Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country. It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful in 1981.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Late_the_Phalarope
The Syndic
The Syndic is a 1953 science fiction novel by Cyril M. Kornbluth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syndic
The Sword of Rhiannon
The Sword of Rhiannon is a science fiction novel by Leigh Brackett, set in her usual venue of Mars. A 1942 Brackett story, "The Sorcerer of Rhiannon", also uses the name; however, it is the name of a place rather than a character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Rhiannon
Starman Jones
Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_Jones
Star Rangers (novel)
Star Rangers, also known as The Last Planet, is a science-fiction novel written by Andre Norton and published on 1953 Aug 20 by Harcourt, Brace & Company. This is one of Norton’s Central Control books, which lay out the history of a galactic empire through events suggested by Norton’s understanding of Terran history (see also Star Guard).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Rangers_(novel)
Space Tug (novel)
Space Tug is a YA science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review in Galaxy, noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity." Boucher and McComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ; ; ; Leinster's adult work." P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tug_(novel)
Space Platform
Space Platform is a YA science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Platform
The Space Merchants
The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel, written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth in 1952. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine as a serial entitled Gravy Planet, the novel was first published as a single volume in 1953, and has sold heavily since. It deals satirically with a hyper-developed consumerism, seen through the eyes of an advertising executive. In 1984, Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
Space Lawyer
Space Lawyer is a science fiction novel by Nat Schachner. It was released in 1953 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from two short stories, "Old Fireball" and "Jurisdiction", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Lawyer
The Southpaw
The Southpaw was the first of the Henry Wiggen baseball novels by Mark Harris, published in 1953. Wiggen, star pitcher and narrator of the novel, tells of his early years in baseball and his debut with the New York Mammoths. It was followed by Bang the Drum Slowly (1956).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Southpaw
The Sixth Wife
The Sixth Wife is a 1953 historical novel by noted novelist Jean Plaidy. It recounts the tale of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII, King of England. The novel covers the life of Catherine as Queen, and her fearful feeling of being replaced in the King's eyes. Though the novel conveys Catherine's life, several other characters' lives are foreshadowed as well. Catherine's family play a key role including her sister Anne Parr Herbert, her stepdaughter Elizabeth, niece Jane Grey, doomed friend Anne Askew, rivals Thomas Wriothesley, Stephen Gardiner, Henry Howard, Anne Stanhope, Mary Howard Fitzroy the Dowager Duchess of Richmond and former romantic interest Thomas Seymour. The novel unfolds over a period of five years, recounting Catherine's rise as Queen Consort to her death as Dowager Queen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Wife
Simon (novel)
Simon is a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published in 1953. It is set during the English Civil War, and shows the effect of the conflict on two friends, who find themselves on opposite sides. It is her fifth novel, acknowledged to be the first in which she displayed the mastery of subject and style for which she is known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(novel)
The Silver Chair
The Silver Chair is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1953. It was the fourth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956); it is volume six in recent editions, which are sequenced according to Narnian history. Like the others it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair
Shadrach (novel)
Shadrach by Meindert De Jong is a children's novel about a small boy and his pet rabbit. The novel, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was first published in 1953 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadrach_(novel)
Sentinels From Space
Sentinels From Space is a science-fiction novel written by Eric Frank Russell and first published in 1952 (Dec 15) by Bouregy & Curl, Inc., New York. It was adapted from a story that appeared in the Nov 1951 issue of Startling Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinels_From_Space
The Sensitive Man
The Sensitive Man is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson that was first published in the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe and reprinted in the 1981 collection The Psychotechnic League. The story is a component of the Psychotechnic League future history, and takes place in the year 2009, between "Un-Man" and "The Big Rain".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sensitive_Man
Second Foundation
Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in the in-universe chronology. It was first published in 1953 by Gnome Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Foundation
The Scarlet Letters
The Scarlet Letters is an English language novel published in 1953 by American author Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set primarily in New York City, USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letters
The Scarlet Frontier
The Scarlet Frontier is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the sixth in his Great South Land Saga of novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Frontier
Savage Night
Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Night
The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York
The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York is an historical novel by Leslie Barringer. It was first published by Phoenix House in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_in_Splendour:_a_Story_of_the_Wars_of_Lancaster_and_York
Rocket to Luna
Rocket to Luna is a juvenile science fiction novel by prolific author and screenwriter Evan Hunter (as Richard Marsten) published in 1953 by The John C. Winston Company with cover illustration by Alex Schomburg. The story follows the adventures of the main character Ted Baker after he mistakenly replaces a member of the first lunar expedition at the last moment before the rocket leaves for the moon. Rocket to Luna is a part of the Winston Science Fiction set, a series of juvenile novels which have become famous for their influence on young science fiction readers and their exceptional cover illustrations by award winning artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_to_Luna
The Ringmaster's Secret
The Ringmaster's Secret is the thirty-first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in late 1953 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringmaster%27s_Secret
Ring Out Bow Bells!
Ring Out Bow Bells! is a children's historical novel by Cynthia Harnett. It was first published in 1953, and later reprinted as The Drawbridge Gate. It is the story of an apprentice in the time of Henry V, when Dick Whittington was Lord Mayor of London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Out_Bow_Bells!
Ring for Jeeves
Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_for_Jeeves
Ring Around the Sun (novel)
Ring Around the Sun is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak. Its anti-urban and pro-agrarian sentiments are typical of much of Simak's work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Around_the_Sun_(novel)
The Return of Lanny Budd
The Return of Lanny Budd is the 11th and final novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1953, the story covers the period from 1946 to 1949.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Lanny_Budd
Querelle of Brest
Querelle of Brest (French: Querelle de Brest) is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder, and its protagonist is Georges Querelle. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, Querelle (1982).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Querelle_of_Brest
Queen Jezebel (novel)
Queen Jezebel is a 1953 historical novel by Jean Plaidy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Jezebel_(novel)
The Private Life of an Indian Prince
The Private Life of an Indian Prince is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1953. The book is classified as one of Anand's most impressive and important works. In keeping with his other writings dealing with the topic of social and political reform, this book deals with the abolition of the princely states system in India. While the novel is not an autobiography, like many of his earlier novels, it follows an autobiographical tone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_an_Indian_Prince
The Present and the Past
The Present and the Past (1953) is a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett about the head of a family who, although outwardly powerful and in charge, is suffering under the fact that he is being belittled and at some point even outright ignored by family and servants alike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Present_and_the_Past
Prelude to Space
Prelude to Space is a science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1947. However, it was not until 1951 that the story first appeared in magazine format from World Editions Inc as number three in the series Galaxy Science Fiction. Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a United States hardcover edition from Gnome Press and a paperback from Ballantine Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_Space
The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in The New Yorker in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954. The plot of The Ponder Heart follows Daniel Ponder, a wealthy heir, and is told through the narration of Edna Earle Ponder, Daniel's niece. In 1956, the story was made into a Broadway play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Una Merkel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Edna Earle Ponder in the Broadway play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ponder_Heart
A Pocket Full of Rye
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & co. the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple. Like several of Christie's novels (e.g., Hickory Dickory Dock, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) the title and substantial parts of the plot reference a nursery rhyme, in this case Sing a Song of Sixpence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pocket_Full_of_Rye
Planet of Light
Planet of Light, written by Raymond F. Jones, is a science-fiction novel first published in 1953 by the John C. Winston Co. as part of its 35-book set of juvenile novels. Written as a sequel to Son of the Stars, the story follows Ron Barron and his family as they are taken to a planet in the Great Galaxy of Andromeda to participate in a meeting of an intergalactic analogue of the United Nations. They face one question – Is Earth ready to join an intergalactic society?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_Light
The Outsider (Wright novel)
The Outsider is a novel by American author Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms. The kind of racism that Wright knew and experienced, a racism from which most black people of his own time could not escape, remained the central element in his fiction. The Outsider appeared during the height of McCarthyism in the United States and the advent of the Cold War in Europe, two events which had a significant bearing on its initial reception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(Wright_novel)
Otis Spofford
Otis Spofford is a 1953 children's novel by Beverly Cleary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Spofford
The Orchid House (novel)
The Orchid House was a book published in 1953, and the only novel written by Dominican writer Phyllis Shand Allfrey. It is considered "a pioneering work of Caribbean literature".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_House_(novel)
One in Three Hundred
One in Three Hundred is a science fiction novel written by J. T. McIntosh. It was originally published as three novellas in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1953-54 , and was then published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. During 1956 the novel was reissued by Ace as Ace Double D-113, in a dos-à-dos binding with Dwight V. Swain's The Transposed Man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_in_Three_Hundred
One (David Karp novel)
One is a dystopian novel by David Karp first published in 1953. It was also published under the title, Escape to Nowhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(David_Karp_novel)
Nothing to Make a Fuss About
Nothing to Make a Fuss About (French: Histoire d'un amour) is a 1953 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. The narrative is set in Paris right after World War I. It tells the story of a female ex-ambulance driver with a passion for the arts, who falls in love with a disillusioned Austrian painter, while she in turn is adored by a young woman. The novel was published in English in 1954, as part of an omnibus volume titled Children of Circumstance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_Make_a_Fuss_About
The Night of the Hunter (novel)
The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb. The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(novel)
The Narrows (Petry novel)
The Narrows is a 1953 novel by African-American writer Ann Petry. "The Narrows" is the name of the African-American section of the fictional town of Monmouth, Connecticut, in which most of the novel’s action takes place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Petry_novel)
The Mystery of Holly Lane
The Mystery of Holly Lane is a 1953 mystery novel by English author, Enid Blyton and the eleventh book in Enid Blyton's Mystery Series featuring the Five Find-Outers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Holly_Lane
Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse
Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse is a 1953 novel by Patrick Hamilton, the second in the Gorse Trilogy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Stimpson_and_Mr._Gorse
Mr Pye
Mr Pye is a short 1953 novel by English novelist Mervyn Peake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Pye
More Than Human
More Than Human is a 1953 science fiction novel by Theodore Sturgeon. It is a fix-up of his previously published novella Baby is Three with two parts (The Fabulous Idiot and Morality) written especially for the novel. It won the 1954 International Fantasy Award, which was also given to works in science fiction. It was additionally nominated in 2004 for a "Retro Hugo" award for the year 1954. Sci-fi critic and editor David Pringle included it in his book, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Than_Human
Mission of Gravity
Mission of Gravity is a science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The novel was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in April–July 1953. Its first hardcover book publication was in 1954, and it was first published as a paperback book in 1958. Along with the novel itself, many editions (and most recent editions) of the book also include "Whirligig World", an essay by Clement on creating the planet Mesklin that was first published in the June 1953 Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_of_Gravity
Missing Men of Saturn
Missing Men of Saturn is a juvenile science fiction novel, published first during 1953, by astronomer and author Robert S. Richardson as (Philip Latham) with cover illustration by Alex Schomburg. The story concerns Dale Sutton's mission to the dreaded planet Saturn from which no one has ever returned. Missing Men of Saturn is a part of the Winston Science Fiction set, a series of juvenile novels which have become famous for their influence on young science fiction readers and their exceptional cover illustrations by award winning artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Men_of_Saturn
The Marlows and the Traitor
In the introduction to the Girls Gone By edition of The Marlows and the Traitor, Antonia Forest admits she never intended to write a series of books about the Marlows. At the time of writing (the book was published in 1953) the Nuremberg Trials were happening and Forest decided to write a book about a traitor. Only then did it occur to her to use the Marlows in the book. The Marlows and the Traitor comes between Autumn Term and Falconer's Lure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marlows_and_the_Traitor
A Marcha das Utopias
A Marcha das Utopias is a Portuguese language novel by Brazilian author, Oswald de Andrade. It was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Marcha_das_Utopias
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw is a historical fiction children's book. It follows Mara, a young Egyptian girl who takes up a dangerous job as a double spy between two different masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara,_Daughter_of_the_Nile
Man of Many Minds
Man of Many Minds is a science fiction novel by author E. Everett Evans. It was first published in 1953 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 3,558 copies. The book includes an introduction by E. E. Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Many_Minds
Maigret's Mistake
Maigret's Mistake (French:Maigret se trompe) is a 1953 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. It was translated into English in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret%27s_Mistake
Maigret et l'homme du banc
Maigret et l'homme du banc (published in English variously as Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Maigret and the Man on the Bench and The Man on the Boulevard) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret_et_l%27homme_du_banc
Magic Maize
Magic Maize is a short children's novel written and illustrated by Mary and Conrad Buff. Set in contemporary Guatemala, it describes the life and adventures of a boy from a traditional Mayan Indian family. First published in 1953, it was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Maize
The Lying Days
The Lying Days is the debut novel of Nobel winning South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer. It was published in 1953 in London by Victor Gollancz and New York by Simon & Schuster. It is Gordimer's third published book, following two collections of short stories, Face to Face (1949), and The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952). The novel is semi-autobiographical, with the main character coming from a small mining town in Africa similar to Gordimer's own childhood. The novel is also a bildungsroman "about waking up from the naivete of a small colonial town."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lying_Days
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in November 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Starr_and_the_Pirates_of_the_Asteroids
Love for Lydia
Love for Lydia is a semi-autobiographical novel written by British author H. E. Bates, first published in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_for_Lydia
Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future is a 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who at the beginning of the story is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably high recidivism rate. Upon release, Plastic goes to work at a state-run euthanasia center. The centers are not restricted to the terminally ill and are so popular that Plastic's sole responsibility is to stem "the too eager rush" of perfectly healthy but "welfare weary" citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Among_the_Ruins._A_Romance_of_the_Near_Future
The Lotus and the Wind
The Lotus and the Wind is a spy novel by John Masters published in 1953. It continues his saga of the Savage family, who are part of the British Raj in India, and is set against the backdrop of the Great Game, the period of tension between Britain and Russia in Central Asia during the late nineteenth century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lotus_and_the_Wind
The Lost Planet (novel)
The Lost Planet is a 1953 juvenile science fiction novel by Angus MacVicar, published by Burke, London. It is the first of the popular novel series The Lost Planet, which was adapted for radio and television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Planet_(novel)
The Long Goodbye (novel)
The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler himself, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book" and recalled the agony of writing it while his wife was terminally ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(novel)
The Light in the Forest
The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates historic figures and is based in historical fact related to the late eighteenth century and period of the American Revolutionary War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_in_the_Forest
The Legion of the Damned (novel)
Legion of the Damned (original Danish title: Fordømtes Legion) is the first in a series of fourteen World War II novels written by Sven Hassel. The book covers a chronological period of a number of years, starting with the protagonist's arrest and time in German concentration camps, and ending with his being an officer and company commander on the Russian front. All of Sven Hassel's subsequent war stories, from a chronological point of view, fill in details omitted by this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legion_of_the_Damned_(novel)
The Last Parable
The Last Parable is a 1953 novel by Alec Coppel about the life and times of a judge. It differed from much of Coppel's usual output in that it was not a murder mystery or comedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Parable
The Kraken Wakes
The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback. The title is a reference to Alfred Tennyson's sonnet The Kraken. The eponymous kraken is a sea monster from Scandinavian folklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kraken_Wakes
A Kiss Before Dying (novel)
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1953 novel written by Ira Levin. It won the 1954 Edgar Award, for Best First Novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kiss_Before_Dying_(novel)
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a novel for children written by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has been frequently reprinted. In 2008 it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series with an introduction by David Almond (the award-winning author of Clay, Skellig, Kit's Wilderness and The Fire-Eaters), and the original illustrations by Lotte Reiniger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_and_His_Knights_of_the_Round_Table
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1953 novel by the British writer Wolf Mankowitz, based on the author's experiences of growing up within a Jewish community in London's East End.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kid_for_Two_Farthings
Junkie (novel)
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkie_(novel)
Jane and Prudence
Jane and Prudence is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953 and, according to the novelist Jilly Cooper, her finest work - "full of wit, plotting, characterization and miraculous observation".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_and_Prudence
In the Wet
In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in 1953. It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Shute yarn such as flying, the future, mystic states, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wet
In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin is the first and much acclaimed novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, originally published in 1953 by Michael Joseph in London, and subsequently published in New York by McGraw-Hill. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition. An autobiographical novel, set in the 1930s–'40s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised, In the Castle of My Skin follows the events in a young boy's life taking place against the background of dramatic changes in the society in which he lives. The book's title is taken from a Derek Walcott couplet: "You in the castle of your skin / I the swineherd."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Castle_of_My_Skin
Iceworld
Iceworld is a science fiction novel by author Hal Clement. It was published in 1953 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceworld
Hurry Home, Candy
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong is a children's novel about a dog. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the book was first published in 1953 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1954. It regularly appears on public library and school reading lists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurry_Home,_Candy
Hornblower and the Atropos
Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C.S. Forester.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornblower_and_the_Atropos
Hingede öö
Hingede öö (English: All Souls' Night or Night of Souls) is a novel by the Estonian author Karl Ristikivi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingede_%C3%B6%C3%B6
The High and the Mighty (novel)
The High and the Mighty is a 1953 novel by Ernest K. Gann based on a real-life trip that he flew as a commercial airline pilot for Matson Lines from Honolulu, Hawaii to Burbank, California. It was adapted into a film of the same name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_and_the_Mighty_(novel)
Heartsnatcher
Heartsnatcher (French: L'Arrache-cœur) is a 1953 novel by the French writer Boris Vian. It tells the story of a psychoanalyst who is newly arrived in a very superstitious village where absurd events occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartsnatcher
Gorse Trilogy
The Gorse Trilogy is a series of three novels, the last published works of the author Patrick Hamilton. The stories follow the anti-hero Ernest Ralph Gorse, whose heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles his victims. He is thought to have been based on the real-life con-man and murderer Neville George Heath, executed in 1946.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorse_Trilogy
Goldsborough (novel)
Goldsborough is a proletarian novel by the German-American writer Stefan Heym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsborough_(novel)
The Golden Spiders
The Golden Spiders is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. It was first published in 1953 by The Viking Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Spiders
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Between
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930's Harlem, and his relationship to his family and his church. The novel also reveals the back stories of John's mother, his biological father, and his violent, religious fanatic step-father, Gabriel Grimes. The novel focuses on the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, as a negative source of repression and moral hypocrisy and also as a positive source of inspiration and community. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Go Tell It on the Mountain 39th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Tell_It_on_the_Mountain_(novel)
Four Reigns
The Four Reigns (Thai สี่แผ่นดิน, Si Phaen Din), a novel by Kukrit Pramoj, shows how individuals in Thai society adjust to change in the face of historic events. The story first develops under the palace life of minor courtiers during a time of absolute monarchy and explicit observance of traditional Buddhist mores. The traditional values of the times are experienced by the main character and are enhanced by her surroundings. Throughout the evolving years the country experiences disturbances of World War I; the Palace Revolution of 1932 and World War II respectively. The book focuses primarily on the lives of the minor nobility and the necessary modes of adapting to unpreventable events that come by way of foreign and domestic conflicts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Reigns
Five Go Down to the Sea
Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Go_Down_to_the_Sea
Red Lights (novel)
Feux rouges (Red Lights) is the title of a short novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is among one of the author's roman durs or "hard novels".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lights_(novel)
The Fair Bride
The Fair Bride is a 1953 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fair_Bride
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperature of paper (In reality, scientists place the autoignition temperature of paper anywhere from high 440 degrees Fahrenheit to some 30 degrees hotter, depending on the study and type of paper).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
The Duplicated Man
The Duplicated Man is a science fiction novel which was one of the first fictional works that tackle the idea of cloning. It was co-written by James Blish and Robert Lowndes. The Duplicated Man was first published in the August 1953 edition of Dynamic Science Fiction and in book form, in 1959 by Avalon Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duplicated_Man
The Demolished Man
The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, is an American novel, science fiction and inverted detective story, that was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953. The story was first serialized in three parts, beginning with the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, followed by publication of the novel in 1953. The novel is dedicated to Galaxy's editor, H. L. Gold, who made suggestions during its writing. Bester's title was Demolition!, but Gold talked him out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demolished_Man
The Deep Six (novel)
The Deep Six is a 1953 novel by Martin Dibner (1911-1992) describing the experiences of a group of U.S. Navy sailors fighting in the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1943 during World War II. The novel, based on the author's experiences serving in the light cruiser USS Richmond during the same campaign, is written in a terse Hemingwayesque style and was a contemporary of Nicholas Monsarrat's novel The Cruel Sea and The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. The novel reached the New York Times Bestseller List for the week of September 6, 1953, ranked 16th in sales, and appeared six times on the list until October 18, fluctuating between 14th and 16th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_Six_(novel)
Cry Slaughter!
Cry Slaughter! is a 1957 novel by Filipino author Edilberto K. Tiempo. Before the novel’s revision for publication in the United States, it was first published in the Philippines as Watch in the Night in 1953. In the United States, the renamed novel was printed four times by Avon in New York City. In 1959, Cry Slaughter! was published and assigned the number R306 by Digit Books. It had been published as a hardbound book in London, England. It had been translated into six languages in other parts of Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Slaughter!
The Crisscross Shadow
The Crisscross Shadow is Volume 32 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisscross_Shadow
Cotillion (novel)
Cotillion is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer that was released in 1953. It is one of the most light-hearted of Heyer's romances, avoiding the mystery, intrigue, and sensational events present in many of her novels. The story is set in 1816.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotillion_(novel)
Conjure Wife
Conjure Wife (1943) is a supernatural horror novel by Fritz Leiber. Its premise is that witchcraft flourishes as an open secret among women. The story is told from the point of view of a small-town college professor who discovers that his wife is a witch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjure_Wife
The Clue of the Velvet Mask
The Clue of the Velvet Mask is the thirtieth volume in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was Mildred Benson's final ghostwrite for the series. The plot and story take place largely in Nancy's hometown of River Heights. Nancy tries to solve a mystery about a gang of event thieves robbing homes during parties, lectures, musicals, and other social occasions planned or catered by Lightner's Entertainment Company. Much of the original story contains elements of dramatic crime dramas; the villains are darker in tone than many other entries in the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clue_of_the_Velvet_Mask
Children of the Atom
Children of the Atom is a 1953 science fiction novel by Wilmar H. Shiras, which has been listed as one of "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002." The book is a collection and expansion of three earlier stories, the most famous of which is the novella "In Hiding" from 1948, which appeared on several "Best SF" lists. The book's plot focuses on superhuman children with immeasurably high intelligence who have to hide their youth, and work from hiding in order to get along in the less-intelligent world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Atom
Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End
The Charioteer
The Charioteer is a 1953 war novel by Mary Renault. It was first published in the United States in 1959. The Charioteer is significant because it features a prominent gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller within the gay community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charioteer
The Cavalier's Cup
The Cavalier's Cup is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery and the final appearance of the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cavalier%27s_Cup
Casino Royale (novel)
Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)
A Case of Conscience
A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by James Blish, first published in 1958. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion yet has a perfect, innate sense of morality, a situation which conflicts with Catholic teaching. The story was originally published as a novella in 1953, and later extended to novel-length, of which the first part is the original novella. The novel is the first part of Blish's thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy, followed by Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter, and The Day After Judgment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience
Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid
Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid is the fictionally embellished autobiography of Catherine "Caddie" Edmonds, who worked as a barmaid in Sydney during the Great Depression. Published anonymously in 1953 under Edmonds' nickname, which was coined by a lover who likened her to "the sleek body and class of his Cadillac motorcar", Caddie attracted wide critical acclaim upon its original publication in London, and became a bestseller when it was adapted into a feature film in 1976, one year after International Women's Year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddie,_the_Story_of_a_Barmaid
Burning Valley
Burning Valley is a 1953 coming-of-age novel by the American writer Phillip Bonosky set in the steel valley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1920s. It was originally published in the Communist Party publication Masses and Mainstream. In 1998 it was reprinted as part of the series "The Radical Novel Reconsidered" by the University of Illinois Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Valley
Bring the Jubilee
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history, with elements of steampunk (a word not coined until the 1980s). The point of divergence occurs in July 1863 when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southern Independence" on July 4, 1864, after the surrender of the United States of America. The novel takes place in the impoverished rump United States in the mid-20th century as war looms between the Confederacy and its rival, the German Union. History takes an unexpected turn when the protagonist Hodge Backmaker, a historian, decides to travel back in time to witness the moment when the South won the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_Jubilee
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Rand McNally (1953)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighty_of_the_Grand_Canyon
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (novel)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953) is a novella by American author James A. Michener. The book details the experiences of United States Navy pilots in the Korean War as they undertake a mission to destroy heavily protected bridges in enemy territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_at_Toko-Ri_(novel)
Black Wings Has My Angel
Black Wings Has My Angel is a fictional crime novel by American novelist Elliott Chaze, published by Gold Medal Books in 1953. It centers on an escaped convict, Tim Sunblade, and his plot to rob an armored truck while being wrapped up in a love/hate relationship with Virginia, a call girl he meets in Mississippi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wings_Has_My_Angel
Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue
Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (original Swedish title Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus) is the 3rd and last novel about the Swedish "master detective" Kalle Blomkvist, written by Astrid Lindgren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bergson_and_the_White_Rose_Rescue
Beyond This Place
Beyond This Place is a novel by Scottish author A. J. Cronin first published in 1950. The first Edition for Australia and New Zealand was in 1953. A serial version appeared in Collier's under the title of To Live Again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_This_Place
Battle Cry (Leon Uris novel)
Battle Cry is a novel by American writer Leon Uris, published in 1953. Many of the events in the book are based on Uris's own World War II experience with the 6th Marine Regiment. The story is largely told in first person from the viewpoint of the Battalion Communications Chief, "Mac," although it frequently shifts to third person in scenes where Mac is not personally present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Cry_(Leon_Uris_novel)
Attack from Atlantis
Attack From Atlantis (1953) is a science fiction novel written by Lester del Rey. The story follows the new U.S.S. Triton submarine on her maiden voyage, but trouble happens when the crew comes face to face with the inhabitants of the underwater city Atlantis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_from_Atlantis
Atta (novel)
Atta: A Novel of a Most Extraordinary Adventure is a science fiction novel by Francis Rufus Bellamy published in 1953. In 1954 the novel was published back-to-back with Murray Leinster's The Brain Stealers as Ace Double D-079.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta_(novel)
...And Now Miguel
...And Now Miguel is a novel by Joseph Krumgold that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1954. It deals with the life of Miguel Chavez, a 12-year-old Hispanic-American shepherd from New Mexico. It is also the title of a 1953 documentary directed by Krumgold. In 1966, a feature film adaptation was directed by James B. Clark and starred Pat Cardi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...And_Now_Miguel
And Never Said a Word
And Never Said a Word (German: Und sagte kein einziges Wort) is a novel by German author Heinrich Böll, published in 1953. The novel deals with the thoughts and actions of Fred and Käte Bogner, a married couple. Fred, feeling sick of the poverty of their house, has left her with their three children. They continue to meet on a casual basis every time Fred can find money enough to book a hotel room. As in numerous works from the German writer, the main theme is the situation in Germany after World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Never_Said_a_Word
All Alone (novel)
All Alone is a children's book by Claire Huchet Bishop, published by Viking Press with illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky in 1953. It was a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, which recognizes the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Alone_(novel)
The Alcoholics
The Alcoholics is a 1953 novel by Jim Thompson. The plot evolves around Dr. Peter S. Murphy and his clinic El Healtho where he treats alcoholics. It was re-released in the 1980s along with several other Thompson books under the Black Lizard imprint, by the Creative Arts Book Company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alcoholics
Against the Fall of Night
Against the Fall of Night is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Originally appearing as a novella in the November, 1948 issue of the magazine Startling Stories, it was revised and expanded in 1951 and published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press. It was later expanded and revised again and published in 1956 as The City and the Stars. A later edition includes another of Clarke's early works and is titled The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night. In 1990, with Clarke's approval, Gregory Benford wrote a sequel titled Beyond the Fall of Night which continues the story arc of the 1953 novel. It is generally printed with the original novel as a single volume.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Fall_of_Night
After the Funeral
After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Funeral
The African Child
The African Child, originally written in French and published in 1953 as l’enfant noir, is an autobiographical novel, written by Camara Laye. It tells the story of a young African child, Baba, growing up in Guinea. The novel won the Prix Charles Veillon writing prize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Child
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. It features the eponymous Augie March who grows up during the Great Depression and it is an example of bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to manhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Augie_March
The Abyss of Wonders
The Abyss of Wonders is a science fiction novel by author Perley Poore Sheehan. It was first published in book form in 1953 by Polaris Press in an edition of 990 copies. It was the second and final book published by Polaris Press and included an introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Argosy in 1915.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss_of_Wonders
Abeltje
Abeltje is a children's novel by celebrated Dutch author Annie M. G. Schmidt, originally published in 1953 by De Arbeiderspers. It was one of Annie M. G. Schmidt's first children's books, and such an instant success that it was already in its fourth edition when the sequel, De A van Abeltje, came out in 1955. Since 1988, the book has been published by Querido with illustrations by Thé Tjong-Khing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeltje
7½ Cents
7½ Cents is a 1953 novel by Richard Bissell, his third book and second novel. It was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. With George Abbott, Bissell adapted it into the musical The Pajama Game, which was a hit on Broadway and won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%C2%BD_Cents
Worlds of Tomorrow
Worlds of Tomorrow is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1953. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Worlds Beyond, Fantastic, Fantasy, The Magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction, If, Fantastic Adventures, Future, Startling Stories, Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, The Fantasy Fan and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Abridged editions were published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1955, Berkley Books in 1958 and Four Square Books in 1963.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Tomorrow
The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales is a 1953 collection of stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers. An E-book edition was published as The Tritonian Ring and Other Pasudian Tales by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form; however, despite the title, the e-edition includes The Tritonian Ring only; the other tales are omitted. The pieces were originally published between 1951 and 1953 in the magazines and anthologies Two Complete Science Adventure Books, Fantasy Fiction, Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, and Fantastic Adventures. The title story, the novel The Tritonian Ring has also been published separately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tritonian_Ring_and_Other_Pusadian_Tales
Tales from Gavagan's Bar
Tales from Gavagan's Bar is a collection of short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, illustrated by the latter's wife Inga Pratt. It was first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers in 1953; an expanded edition retaining the original illustrations was published by Owlswick Press in 1978 and subsequently issued in paperback (without the illustrations) by Bantam Books in 1980. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. The pieces were originally published between 1950 and 1954, mostly in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Gavagan%27s_Bar
Strange Worlds (collection)
Strange Worlds is a collection of a science fiction novel and two science fiction novellas by Ralph Milne Farley. It was first published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of Farley's earlier books, The Radio Man and The Hidden Universe. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Argosy and the novellas originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Worlds_(collection)
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2 is the second book in the anthology series, Star Science Fiction Stories, edited by Frederik Pohl. It was first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Science_Fiction_Stories_No.2
Star Science Fiction Stories No.1
Star Science Fiction Stories No.1 is the first book in the anthology series, Star Science Fiction Stories, edited by Frederik Pohl. It was first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books, without numeration, and was reprinted in 1972 as "No. 1". The book featured the first appearance of Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "The Nine Billion Names of God".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Science_Fiction_Stories_No.1
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction is a collection of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp, edited by H. J. Campbell. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback in 1953 by Panther Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprague_de_Camp%27s_New_Anthology_of_Science_Fiction
Someone Like You (collection)
Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(collection)
Shambleau and Others
Shambleau and Others is a 1953 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. The book was originally announced by Arkham House but never published by them. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambleau_and_Others
Science-Fantasy Quintette
Science-Fantasy Quintette is a collection of science fiction short stories by authors L. Ron Hubbard and Ed Earl Repp and edited by William L. Crawford. It was published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus of Repp's The Radium Pool and Hubbard's Triton. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Unknown, Amazing Stories, Fantasy Book and Science Wonder Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-Fantasy_Quintette
Revolt in 2100
Revolt in 2100 is a 1953 collection by Robert A. Heinlein and is part of his Future History series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_in_2100
Paranoia (Hermans book)
Paranoia is a 1953 short story collection by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans. The titular story was adapted into the 1967 film Paranoia, directed by Adriaan Ditvoorst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(Hermans_book)
The Other Place (Priestley)
The Other Place, subtitled "And Other Stories of the Same Sort", is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by J. B. Priestley published in hardcover by Harper & Brothers and Heinemann in 1953. The title story, original to the collection, was adapted as an episode of the television series Westinghouse Studio One in 1958, starring Cedric Hardwicke as "a sorcerer with chin whiskers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Place_(Priestley)
Nine Stories (Salinger)
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Stories_(Salinger)
Mutant (collection)
Mutant is a 1953 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_(collection)
El Llano en llamas
El Llano en Llamas (translated into English as "The Burning Plain and other Stories" and as "The Plain in Flames") is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo and first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Llano_en_llamas
King Conan
King Conan is a collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1953. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales. The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Conan" collections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Conan
The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories (32 in the 1997 edition) by Ray Bradbury; it was first published in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Apples_of_the_Sun
From Death to the Stars
From Death to the Stars is a collection of a fantasy novel and science fiction short stories by L. Ron Hubbard. It was published in 1953 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 300 copies. The book is an omnibus edition of Hubbard's Death's Deputy and The Kingslayer. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Unknown and Astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Death_to_the_Stars
Expedition to Earth
Expedition to Earth (ISBN 0-7221-2423-6) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_to_Earth
Eleven Blue Men
Eleven Blue Men, and Other Narratives of Medical Detection is an award winning collection of twelve true short stories written by Berton Roueché and published in 1953. Each story, including the titular story Eleven Blue Men, was originally published in the "Annals of Medicine" section of The New Yorker between 1947 and 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven_Blue_Men
E Pluribus Unicorn
E Pluribus Unicorn is a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1953 by Abelard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Unicorn
Death in Midsummer and other stories
Death in Midsummer and other stories is a 1953 collection of stories by Yukio Mishima translated into English in 1966. It contains one play, Dōjōji, based on a Nō drama of that name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Midsummer_and_other_stories
The Curse of Yig (book)
The Curse of Yig is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and essays by author Zealia Bishop. It was released in 1953 and was the author's only collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 1,217 copies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Yig_(book)
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens is a 1953 collection of stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, the fifth book in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It was first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers, and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971 with a cover by illustrator Bob Pepper. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. It has also been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian. The pieces were originally published between 1949 and 1951 in the magazines Astounding Science-Fiction, Startling Stories, Future Combined with Science Fiction, and Thrilling Wonder Stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continent_Makers_and_Other_Tales_of_the_Viagens
The Coming of Conan
The Coming of Conan is a collection of eight fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Kull and Conan the Barbarian, together with the first part of his pseudo-history of the "Hyborian Age" in which the Conan tales were set. It was first published in hardcover in the United States by Gnome Press in 1953 and by Boardman Books in the United Kingdom in 1954. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales. The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Kull" and "Conan" collections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_of_Conan
Children of Wonder
Children of Wonder is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories edited by William Tenn, published in hardcover by Simon and Schuster in 1953. It was reprinted in paperback in 1954 by Permabooks, under the title Outsiders: Children of Wonder. The only anthology edited by Tenn, its stories feature children with superhuman or supernatural talents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Wonder
The Black Star Passes
The Black Star Passes is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author John W. Campbell, Jr.. It was first published in 1953 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,951 copies. The book is the first in Campbell's Arcot, Morey and Wade series. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Amazing Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly, and were "extensively edited" for book publication, with Campbell's approval, by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Star_Passes
Assignment in Eternity
Assignment in Eternity, is a collection of four mixed science fiction and fantasy novellas by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1953, with some of the stories somewhat revised from their original magazine publications, as follows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_in_Eternity
Ahead of Time
Ahead of Time is a collection of science fiction stories by Henry Kuttner, first published in hardcover by Ballantine Books in 1953 (with a paperback edition shortly afterwards). A British hardcover appeared in 1954, with a paperback following in 1961. Paperback reissues of both the UK and US editions appeared in the mid-1960s. A French translation appeared in 1962, and an Italian translation in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahead_of_Time

Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953
First edition dust jacket
Editors	E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Published	1953 (Frederick Fell)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	331
Preceded by	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952
Followed by	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954

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