Books - 1955 in literature

Events

• First issue of the "Guinness Book of Records" published.
• Lolita
  by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris. However, it took until 1958 to be published in United States.
• An article in the British Journal of Education is critical of the novels of Enid Blyton.
• Jean Cocteau is elected to both the Académie française and the Royal Academy of Belgium.

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
• Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor
• 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

New drama

• George Axelrod - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
• Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Non-fiction

• Walter Lippmann - Essays in the Public Philosophy
• Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation

Births

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