1956 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Kingsley Amis - That Uncertain Feeling
• Poul Anderson - Planet of No Return
• Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun
• James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
• Saul Bellow - Seize the Day
• Pierre Berton - The Mysterious North
• Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination (as Tiger! Tiger!)
• Anthony Burgess - Time for a Tiger
• Pearl S. Buck - Imperial Woman
• Albert Camus - The Fall (La Chute)
• John Dickson Carr
  • Patrick Butler for the Defense
  • Fear is the Same (as by Carter Dickson)
• Agatha Christie - Dead Man's Folly
• Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars
• A. J. Cronin
  • A Thing of Beauty
  • Crusader's Tomb
• Philip K. Dick
  • The Man Who Japed
  • The Minority Report
• Gordon R. Dickson
  • Alien From Arcturus
  • Mankind on the Run
• Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt - A Dangerous Game
• Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever
• Romain Gary - Les racines du ciel
• William Golding - Pincher Martin
• Henri René Guieu - Les Monstres du Néant
• Mark Harris - Bang the Drum Slowly
• Marguerite Henry - Misty of Chincoteague
• Frank Herbert - The Dragon in the Sea
• Georgette Heyer - Sprig Muslin
• Kathryn Hulme - The Nun's Story
• C. S. Lewis
  • The Last Battle
  • Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
• Rose Macaulay - The Towers of Trebizond
• Ed McBain - Cop Hater
• Naguib Mahfouz
  • Cairo Trilogy
  • Palace Walk
• Grace Metalious - Peyton Place
• Nicholas Monsarrat - The Tribe that Lost its Head
• Farley Mowat - Lost in the Barrens
• Agnar Mykle - Song of the Red Ruby
• Edwin O'Connor - The Last Hurrah
• Pier Paolo Pasolini - Ragazzi di vita
• Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
• Mary Renault - The Last of the Wine
• Kenneth Roberts - Boon Island
• João Guimarães Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grande Sertão: Veredas)
• Françoise Sagan - A Certain Smile
• Samuel Selvon - The Lonely Londoners
• Ian Serraillier - The Silver Sword
• Irwin Shaw - Lucy Crown
• Khushwant Singh - Train to Pakistan
• Rex Stout - Might as Well Be Dead
• Rex Stout - Three Witnesses
• Kay Thompson - Eloise
• A. E. van Vogt - The Wizard of Linn
• Angus Wilson - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
• P. G. Wodehouse - French Leave
• Eiji Yoshikawa - Heike Story