1953 in Literature - New Books

New Books

• Sholom Aleichem - Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son
• Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
• James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
• Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
• Zealia Bishop - The Curse of Yig
• Ray Bradbury
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Golden Apples of the Sun
• Gwendolyn Brooks - Maud Martha
• William S. Burroughs - Junkie
• John Dickson Carr - The Cavalier's Cup (as by Carter Dickson)
• Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
• Agatha Christie
  • After the Funeral
  • A Pocket Full of Rye
• Arthur C. Clarke
  • Against the Fall of Night
  • Childhood's End
• Beverly Cleary - Otis Spofford
• Ivy Compton-Burnett - The Present and the Past
• A. J. Cronin - Beyond This Place
• Roald Dahl - Someone Like You
• L. Sprague de Camp
  • The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
  • Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction
  • The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
• L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - Tales from Gavagan's Bar
• Lloyd C. Douglas - The Robe
• Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
• Ernest K. Gann - The High and the Mighty
• Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
• Mark Harris - The Southpaw
• L. P. Hartley - The Go-Between
• James Hilton - Time and Time Again
• David Karp - One
• Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying
• C. S. Lewis - The Silver Chair
• James A. Michener - The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• Zoe B. Oldenbourg - The Cornerstone
• Mervyn Peake - Mr Pye
• Ellery Queen - The Scarlet Letters
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Sojourner
• Samuel Shellabarger - Lord Vanity
• Wilmar H. Shiras - Children of the Atom
• Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders
• Leon Uris - Battle Cry
• Boris Vian - Heartsnatcher
• A. E. van Vogt - The Universe Maker
• Evelyn Waugh - Love Among the Ruins
• Ben Ames Williams - The Unconquered
• John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes