1956 Club
This page is for the latest of our club reads, books from the year 1956. I’ll collect here links to everyone’s posts, and if I miss yours please leave a comment so that I can add it in! Happy reading! 😀
Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot by Alf Prøysen
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
Tea at Four O’Clock by Janet McNeill
The Children Who Stayed Alone by Bonnie Bess Worline
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
A Devil in Paradise by Henry Miller
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
Talk of the Devil by Frank Baker
A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan
Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson
Thieves and Rascals by Mavis Gallant
The Sybil by Par Lagerkvist
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
The Wings of the Night by Thomas H. Raddall
Night by Elie Wiesel
Zama by Antonio de Benedetto
The Key by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Voyage into Violence by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Beyond the Gates by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
The Last Resort by Pamela Hansford Johnson
The Brazen Head by John Cowper Powys
The Chase by Alejo Carpentier
Every Eye by Isobel English
Italian Folk Tales by Italo Calvino
The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Five A. M., by Jean Dutourd
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Alexander Pamment (via Goodreads)
A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
Captain of Dragoons by Ronald Welch
Rasmus and the Vagabond by Astrid Lindgren
Miss Hogg and the Bronte Murders – Austin Lee
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
Thin Ice by Compton Mackenzie
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
A Haunted Land by Randolph Stow
We Made a Garden by Margery Fish
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
A Selection of Works by Damon Knight
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming
The Case of the Reluctant Reader by Earl Stanley Gardner
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Round up post and previous reads:
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
A Round up of Some Children’s Books
A Round up of some reading ideas
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
Oct 05, 2020 @ 14:49:42
Hi, before I forget, let me link up with today’s review (there may be a long gap until the next one) https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/1956club-childrens-books/
Oct 05, 2020 @ 17:11:06
Thank you! I will link later!
Oct 05, 2020 @ 15:08:30
Here’s today’s review: https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/1956-book-club-dead-mans-folly-by-agatha-christie/
Oct 05, 2020 @ 17:10:22
Thank you! I will link!
Oct 08, 2020 @ 13:23:15
Here’s mine. The Lonely Londoners, plus some previous reads from that year.
Oct 08, 2020 @ 15:40:57
Fab – thanks Annabel! I will link!
Oct 08, 2020 @ 18:27:40
And here’s another Silver Sword for you for the #1956Club
https://www.bookword.co.uk/child-refugees-and-the-silver-sword-by-ian-serraillier/
Oct 08, 2020 @ 20:30:25
Thank you!
Oct 09, 2020 @ 11:04:13
Here’s mine: Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie. https://bookertalk.com/dead-mans-folly-by-agatha-christie-1956club/
Oct 09, 2020 @ 11:06:51
Fab – thanks!
Oct 09, 2020 @ 17:31:06
Here’s one of Jean Dutourd’s Five A. M.
Oct 09, 2020 @ 19:28:15
Thank you – I shall link! 😀
Oct 10, 2020 @ 16:13:10
I found this wonderful idea via Neglected Books, so I’ll contribute my review of Sprig Muslin:
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2020/10/sprig-muslin-georgette-heyers-1956.html
Love this idea!
Oct 10, 2020 @ 19:09:06
Thank you, and glad you could take part! I’ll link to your post, and look out for our next club in six months’ time!
Oct 12, 2020 @ 03:58:10
At first I thought I wouldn’t find anything, but then I decided to go for a mooch through my bookshelves and found several that other people have covered. But I’ve also found one that isn’t on the list yet, The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge. I’ve never read it before, so I shall come back to review it once I have (promises, promises). For now, I’ve written an overview of the books I have and will add photos later, plus a quick review of Gerald Durrell’s The Drunken Forest is in the pipeline. Here’s the link: https://marketgardenreader.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/1956club-finding-1956-books (my book blog is Market Garden Reader, my much neglected expat blog is Integrated Expat, hence the name).
Oct 12, 2020 @ 11:03:27
Thank you – so glad you could join in and especially you found a book which hasn’t featured yet. Will link to your post! 😀
Oct 15, 2020 @ 12:22:12
So sorry I’m late! Technical difficulties… Here’s my review of The Lonely Londoners: https://10mh.net/2020/10/14/lonely-londoners-review-sam-selvon-brings-50s-london-to-life/
Thank you so much for organising it again, it’s been a great week and have loved seeing what everyone was reading!
Oct 15, 2020 @ 14:38:15
No worries! This seems to have been a popular choice and I will link! 😀
Oct 27, 2020 @ 21:20:08
As ‘better late than never’ seems to be my motto, I have finally posted a blog post about Gerald Durrell’s The Drunken Forest: https://marketgardenreader.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/1956club-the-drunken-forest-by-gerald-durrell. I’m going to save The Rosemary Tree for December, but I took the plunge and forced myself to read an Erle Stanley Gardner (much to my husband’s amusement), so that one should be showing up soon, too, with my feelings on the subject, positive or negative.
Oct 28, 2020 @ 10:59:28
Thank you! Well done for getting to 1956 – I shall link to your post! 😀
Nov 21, 2020 @ 00:02:30
A very late addition: my review of Ian Serraillier’s The Silver Sword: https://marketgardenreader.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/1956club-the-silver-sword-by-ian-serraillier. I also discovered something else when I was looking for options for Novellas in November, so I’ll link again later still.
Nov 21, 2020 @ 13:59:33
Thank you! I have linked!
Nov 21, 2020 @ 20:15:49
This wasn’t the one I meant, but – I’m back with two more books I read for the 1956 Club: https://marketgardenreader.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/bonding-over-diamonds-gardner-and-fleming/ (The Case of the Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley Gardner and Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming, neither of which are books I would otherwise have chosen to read.
Nov 21, 2020 @ 20:40:48
Fab – thanks!