Listă cu cele mai bune romane din SUA în anii 1950

1950 The Cardinal de Henry Morton Robinson Joy Street de Frances Parkinson Keyes Across the River and into the Trees de Ernest Hemingway The Wall de John Hersey Star Money de Kathleen Winsor The Parasites de Daphne du Maurier Floodtide de Frank Yerby Jubilee Trail de Gwen Bristow The Adventurer de Mika Waltari The Disenchanted de Budd Schulberg

1951 From Here to Eternity de James Jones The Caine Mutiny de Herman Wouk Moses de Sholem Asch The Cardinal de Henry Morton Robinson A Woman Called Fancy de Frank Yerby The Cruel Sea de Nicholas Monsarrat Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. de John P. Marquand Return to Paradise de James A. Michener The Foundling de Cardinal Spellman The Wanderer de Mika Waltari

1952 The Silver Chalice de Thomas B. Costain The Caine Mutiny de Herman Wouk East of Eden de John Steinbeck My Cousin Rachel de Daphne du Maurier Steamboat Gothic de Frances Parkinson Keyes Giant de Edna Ferber Bătrânul și marea de Ernest Hemingway The Gown of Glory de Agnes Sligh Turnbull The Saracen Blade de Frank Yerby The Houses in Between de Howard Spring De veghe în lanul de secară de J.D. Salinger

1953 The Robe de Lloyd C. Douglas The Silver Chalice de Thomas B. Costain Desirée de Annemarie Selinko Battle Cry de Leon M. Uris From Here to Eternity de James Jones The High and the Mighty de Ernest K. Gann Beyond This Place de A. J. Cronin Time and Time Again de James Hilton Lord Vanity de Samuel Shellabarger The Unconquered de Ben Ames Williams

1954 Not as a Stranger de Morton Thompson Mary Anne de Daphne du Maurier Love Is Eternal de Irving Stone The Royal Box de Frances Parkinson Keyes The Egyptian de Mika Waltari No Time for Sergeants de Mac Hyman Sweet Thursday de John Steinbeck The View from Pompey's Head de Hamilton Basso Never Victorious, Never Defeated de Taylor Caldwell Benton's Row de Frank Yerby

1955 Marjorie Morningstar de Herman Wouk Auntie Mame de Patrick Dennis Andersonville de MacKinlay Kantor Bonjour Tristesse de Francoise Sagan The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit de Sloan Wilson Something of Value de Robert Ruark Not as a Stranger de Morton Thompson No Time for Sergeants de Mac Hyman The Tontine de Thomas B. Costain Ten North Frederick de John O'Hara

1956 Don't Go Near the Water de William Brinkley The Last Hurrah de Edwin O'Connor Peyton Place de Grace Metalious Auntie Mame de Patrick Dennis Eloise de Kay Thompson Andersonville de MacKinlay Kantor A Certain Smile de Francoise Sagan The Tribe That Lost Its Head de Nicholas Monsarrat The Mandarins de Simone de Beauvoir Boon Island de Kenneth Roberts

1957 By Love Possessed de James Gould Cozzens Peyton Place de Grace Metalious Compulsion de Meyer Levin Rally Round the Flag, Boys! de Max Shulman Blue Camellia de Frances Parkinson Keyes Eloise in Paris de Kay Thompson The Scapegoat de Daphne du Maurier On the Beach de Nevil Shute Below the Salt de Thomas B. Costain Atlas Shrugged de Ayn Rand

1958 Doctor Zhivago de Boris Pasternak Anatomy of a Murder de Robert Traver Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov Around the World with Auntie Mame de Patrick Dennis From the Terrace de John O'Hara Eloise at Christmastime de Kay Thompson Ice Palace de Edna Ferber The Winthrop Woman de Anya Seton The Enemy Camp de Jerome Weidman Victorine de Frances Parkinson Keyes

1959 Exodus de Leon Uris Doctor Zhivago de Boris Pasternak Hawaii de James A. Michener Advise and Consent de Allen Drury Lady Chatterley's Lover de D. H. Lawrence The Ugly American de Eugene L. Burdick Dear and Glorious Physician de Taylor Caldwell Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris de Paul Gallico Poor No More de Robert Ruark