1959 in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • Isaac Asimov - Nine Tomorrows
  • Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King
  • Robert Bloch - Psycho
  • Ray Bradbury - A Medicine for Melancholy
  • John Brunner
    • Echo in the Skull
    • The World Swappers
  • Algis Budrys - The Falling Torch
  • William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
  • Taylor Caldwell - Dear and Glorious Physician
  • John Dickson Carr - Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama
  • Agatha Christie - Cat Among the Pigeons
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett - A Heritage and Its History
  • Richard Condon - The Manchurian Candidate
  • Alexander Cordell - Rape of the Fair Country
  • Julio Cortázar - Las armas secretas (short stories)
  • Richard Crichton - The Great Impostor
  • Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
  • Alfred Duggan - Children of the Wolf
  • Ian Fleming - Goldfinger
  • Paul Gallico - Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
  • William Golding - Free Fall
  • Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
  • Robert A. Heinlein
    • The Menace From Earth
    • Starship Troopers
    • The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  • Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
  • John Knowles - A Separate Peace
  • William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick - The Ugly American
  • H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands - The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces
  • John Lymington - Night of the Big Heat
  • John D. MacDonald
    • Deadly Welcome
    • The Beach Girls
    • The Crossroads
  • Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners
  • Alistair MacLean - Night Without End
  • Naguib Mahfouz - The Children of Gebelaawi
  • Norman Mailer - Advertisements for Myself
  • James A. Michener - Hawaii
  • Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone
  • Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett) - The Dawning Light
  • Mordecai Richler - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus
  • Robert Ruark - Poor No More
  • Nathalie Sarraute - Le Planétarium
  • Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
  • Aimée Sommerfelt – The Road to Agra
  • Terry Southern - The Magic Christian
  • Rex Stout - Plot It Yourself
  • John Updike - The Same Door
  • Leon Uris - Exodus
  • Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
  • Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
  • Sheila Watson - The Double Hook

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