1955

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Years: 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Films Released

  • Alexander The Great
  • Blackboard Jungle
  • Marty
  • All That Heaven Allows
  • The Ladykillers
  • To Catch a Theif
  • The Desperate Hours

[edit] Hit Songs

  • Rock around the Clock- Bill Haley

[edit] New Books

  • The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
  • Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor
  • Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
  • Bath Tangle – Georgette Heyer
  • Birdman of Alcatraz - Thomas E. Gaddis
  • Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
  • The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
  • The Dragon in the Sea - Frank Herbert
  • The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
  • The Genius and the Goddess - Aldous Huxley
  • The Ginger Man - J. P. Donleavy
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore
  • The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Sloan Wilson
  • Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
  • Moonraker - Ian Fleming
  • No Time for Sergeants - Mac Hyman
  • Not As a Stranger - Morton Thompson
  • Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
  • The October Country - Ray Bradbury
  • Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
  • The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  • Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Scuffy the Tugboat - Gertrude Crampton
  • Something of Value - Robert Ruark
  • That Uncertain Feeling - Kingsley Amis
  • The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago) - Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
  • Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara
  • The Tontine - Thomas B. Costain
  • The Tree of Man - Patrick White
  • Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein