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Highest Ranked Novels of the 1950s

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Year Title Type Authors
1 143 1953 More Than Human NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
2 134 1954 Mission of Gravity NOVEL Hal Clement
3 130 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz NOVEL Walter M. Miller, Jr.
4 130 1952 The Demolished Man NOVEL Alfred Bester
5 126 1956 The Stars My Destination NOVEL Alfred Bester
6 125 1953 Childhood's End NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
7 105 1953 Fahrenheit 451 NOVEL Ray Bradbury
8 90 1958 A Case of Conscience NOVEL James Blish
9 86 1954 A Mirror for Observers NOVEL Edgar Pangborn
10 85 1958 The Big Time NOVEL Fritz Leiber
11 82 1959 Starship Troopers NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
12 80 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe NOVEL C. S. Lewis
13 70 1950 Gather, Darkness! NOVEL Fritz Leiber
14 52 1956 Double Star NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
15 51 1959 The Sirens of Titan NOVEL Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
16 50 1959 The Lantern Bearers NOVEL Rosemary Sutcliff
17 50 1958 Non-Stop NOVEL Brian W. Aldiss
18 50 1958 A Planet for Texans NOVEL John J. McGuire and H. Beam Piper
19 50 1958 Methuselah's Children NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
20 50 1958 Tom's Midnight Garden NOVEL Philippa Pearce
21 50 1957 A Grass Rope NOVEL William Mayne
22 50 1957 They'd Rather Be Right NOVEL Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
23 50 1957 Atlas Shrugged NOVEL Ayn Rand
24 50 1956 The Last Battle NOVEL C. S. Lewis
25 50 1953 The Syndic NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth
26 50 1952 The Borrowers NOVEL Mary Norton
27 50 1951 The Weapon Shops of Isher NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
28 50 1951 Shadow Over Mars NOVEL Leigh Brackett
29 50 1950 Farmer in the Sky NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
30 37 1958 Have Space Suit - Will Travel NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
31 36 1958 Who? NOVEL Algis Budrys
32 35 1959 The Gammage Cup NOVEL Carol Kendall
33 35 1959 Dorsai! NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
34 35 1958 The Triumph of Time NOVEL James Blish
35 35 1957 Wasp NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
36 35 1957 Citizen of the Galaxy NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
37 35 1953 Second Stage Lensmen NOVEL Edward E. Smith
38 35 1952 Charlotte's Web NOVEL E. B. White
39 35 1952 Player Piano NOVEL Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
40 35 1952 Takeoff NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth
41 35 1951 Gray Lensman NOVEL Edward E. Smith
42 35 1951 The Day of the Triffids NOVEL John Wyndham
43 35 1951 The Great Idea NOVEL Henry Hazlitt
44 35 1950 The Dreaming Jewels NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
45 35 1950 Pebble in the Sky NOVEL Isaac Asimov
46 33 1954 The Caves of Steel NOVEL Isaac Asimov
47 30 1950 Galactic Patrol NOVEL Edward E. Smith
48 29 1955 The Body Snatchers NOVEL Jack Finney
49 29 1952 The Legion of Time NOVEL Jack Williamson
50 29 1952 The Mixed Men NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
51 29 1950 First Lensman NOVEL Edward E. Smith
52 28 1954 To the Stars NOVEL L. Ron Hubbard
53 18 1956 The City and the Stars NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
54 10 1959 Eden NOVEL
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55 9 1953 The Space Merchants NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
56 6 1957 The Door Into Summer NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
57 2 1955 The End of Eternity NOVEL Isaac Asimov
58 2 1952 Judgment Night NOVEL C. L. Moore
59 2 1950 Gormenghast NOVEL Mervyn Peake
60 1 1959 The Falling Torch NOVEL Algis Budrys
61 1 1959 The Pirates of Zan NOVEL Murray Leinster
62 1 1959 Titus Alone NOVEL Mervyn Peake
63 1 1959 Immortality, Inc. NOVEL Robert Sheckley
64 1 1958 The Enemy Stars NOVEL Poul Anderson
65 1 1956 Under Pressure NOVEL Frank Herbert
66 1 1956 Three to Conquer NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
67 1 1955 The Long Tomorrow NOVEL Leigh Brackett
68 1 1955 Not This August NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth
69 1 1955 Cash McCall NOVEL Cameron Hawley
70 1 1954 Lord of the Flies NOVEL William Golding
71 1 1952 The Rolling Stones NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
72 1 1952 East of Eden NOVEL John Steinbeck
73 1 1951 The Puppet Masters NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
74 1 1951 Renaissance NOVEL Raymond F. Jones
75 1 1950 Needle NOVEL Hal Clement
76 1 1950 The Voyage of the Space Beagle NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
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