Publisher SeriesPenguin Decades

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Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse 631 copies, 14 reviews	Order: 1950s
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham 4,738 copies, 122 reviews	Order: 1950s
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 5,800 copies, 155 reviews	Order: 1950s
Another Part of the Wood by Beryl Bainbridge 179 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 1960s
The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge 925 copies, 21 reviews	Order: 1960s
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 25,868 copies, 387 reviews	Order: 1960s
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 1,046 copies, 18 reviews	Order: 1960s
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 930 copies, 25 reviews	Order: 1960s
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor 409 copies, 5 reviews	Order: 1970s
Don't Look Now / Not After Midnight / A Border-Line Case / The Way of the Cross / The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier 1,093 copies, 29 reviews	Order: 1970s
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill 512 copies, 8 reviews	Order: 1970s
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter 1,090 copies, 18 reviews	Order: 1970s
Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively 149 copies, 6 reviews	Order: 1970s
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd 1,866 copies, 42 reviews	Order: 1980s
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd 948 copies, 17 reviews	Order: 1980s
Latecomers by Anita Brookner 437 copies, 5 reviews	Order: 1980s
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr 2,302 copies, 118 reviews	Order: 1980s

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