1959 in Literature

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