Historical Fantasy Books of the 1950s
The 15 most-read historical fantasy books first published between 1950 and 1959, led by The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Slaughterhouse-Five (1956) and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950).
This list collects 15 books from the 1950s by 12 authors, published between 1950 and 1959. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
15 books
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis
The King Must Die
Mary Renault
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Roger Lancelyn Green
Porius
John Cowper Powys
Daughter of Satan
Eleanor Burford
Homer's Daughter
Robert Graves
A Search for the King
Gore Vidal
The Golden Phoenix
Marius Barbeau
The quest of Excalibur
Leonard Wibberley
An Introduction to Shakespeare (Hamlet / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Lear / King Richard II / Much Ado About Nothing / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Tempest / Twelfth Night)
William Shakespeare
The Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well / Anthony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Cymbeline / Hamlet / King Henry Viii / King Lear / Macbeth / Measure for Measure / Merry Wives of Windsor / Othello / Pericles / Sonnets / Tempest / Timon of Athens / Troilus and Cressida / Twelfth Night / Winter's Tale)
William Shakespeare