Here are the books I've read so far from the 1950s. Links are to my reviews on this site.
• About Mrs. Leslie by Vina Delmar. Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1950), 301 pp.
• A Bullet for My Love by Octavus Roy Cohen. Macmillan Co. (1950), 218 pp.
• Do Evil in Return by Margaret Millar. Random House (1950), 243 pp.
• The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1950), 244 pp.
• The Married Look by Robert Nathan. Alfred A. Knopf (1950), 195 pp.
• Memory and Desire by Leonora Hornblow. Random House (1950), 211 pp.
• None but My Foe by David Duncan. Macmillan Co. (1950), 233 pp.
• Return to the Beach by Margaret Shedd. Doubleday and Co. (1950), 276 pp.
• The Serpent’s Egg by David Duncan. Macmillan Co. (1950), 243 pp.
• So Many Doors by Oakley Hall. Random House (1950), 302 pp.
• Something for Nothing by H. Vernor Dixon. Harper and Brothers (1950), 240 pp.
• The Tentacles by Dana Lyon. Harper and Brothers (1950), 235 pp.
• Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler. Penguin (1950), 248 pp.
• The Unheard Music by Eleanor Cameron. Little, Brown and Co. (1950), 278 pp.
• Hollywood Bedside Reader by Irwin Shaw et al. Avon (1951), 156 pp.
• No Vacancy by Mary Jane Rolfs. Houghton Mifflin Co. (1951), 247 pp.
• The Producer by Richard Brooks. Simon and Schuster (1951), 337 pp.
• Reach to the Stars by Calder Willingham. Vanguard Press (1951), 223 pp.
• Roadside Night by Erwin N. Nestler and Gerry P. Broderick. Pyramid Books (1951), 127 pp.
• Swanson by Timothy Pember. Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1951), 280 pp.
• To Hell Together by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1951), 280 pp.
• The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1951), 245 pp.
• The Beach House by Stephen Longstreet. Henry Holt and Co. (1952), 366 pp.• Catch a Tiger by Owen Cameron. Simon and Schuster (1952), 213 pp.
• The Chase by Richard G. Hubler. Coward-McCann (1952), 250 pp.
• The Cheaters by Ledru Baker. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 180 pp.
• A Cow Is Too Much Trouble in Los Angeles by Joseph Foster. Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1952), 248 pp.
• Don’t Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault. E. P. Dutton and Co. (1952), 220 pp.
• The Crimson Frame by Aylwin Lee Martin. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 180 pp.
• Deep Is the Pit by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 280 pp.
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Viking Press (1952), 602 pp.
• The Golden Sorrow by Theodore Pratt. Fawcett Red Seal (1952), 282 pp.
• The Ivory Grin by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1952), 240 pp.
• Love Me Now by John McPartland. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 184 pp.
• The Marriage Bed by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 268 pp.
• The Mountains Have No Shadow by Owen Cameron. Harper and Brothers (1952), 244 pp.
• No Head for Her Pillow by Sam S. Taylor. Dutton (1952), 219 pp.
• Pickup on Noon Street by Raymond Chandler. Pocket Books (1952), 196 pp.
• Remembered Moment by Norman Bligh. Star Guidance Venus (1952), 129 pp.
• The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. Pocket Books (1952), 194 pp.
• Takeoff by Cyril M. Kornbluth. Doubleday (1952), 218 pp.
• Trapped by Richard Hayward. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 160 pp.
• Vengeance Street by Robert Bloomfield. Doubleday (1952), 189 pp.
• Walk in Fear by Willis T. Ballard. Fawcett Gold Medal (1952), 174 pp.
• Way of a Wanton by Richard S. Prather. Gold Medal Books (1952), 144 pp.
• Wives and Husbands by David Duncan. World Publishing Co. (1952), 304 pp.
• The Alcoholics by Jim Thompson. Lion Books (1953), approx. 122 pp.
• Big Red's Daughter by John McPartland. Fawcett Gold Medal (1953), 156 pp.
• Children of the Atom by Wilmar H. Shiras. Gnome Press (1953), 216 pp.
• Corpus of Joe Bailey by Oakley Hall. Viking Press (1953), 479 pp.
• Escape from Morales by Virginia Myers. Fawcett Gold Medal (1953), 155 pp.
• The Girl Cage by Charles Mergendahl. Popular Library (1953), approx. 160 pp.
• Girl on the Beach by George Sumner Albee. Dell (1953), 255 pp.
• High Priest of California by Charles Willeford. Royal Books (1953), 320 pp.
• The Land That Touches Mine by John Sanford. Doubleday and Co. (1953), 251 pp.
• Leave Her to God by O. O. Osborne. Fawcett Gold Medal (1953), 154 pp.
• Lovers Are Losers by Howard Hunt. Fawcett Gold Medal (1953), 160 pp.
• Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1953), 212 pp.
• Mimi by Robert W. Taylor. Pyramid Books (1953), 158.
• Private Practice by Thomas Stone. Designs (1953), 124 pp.
• Someone is Bleeding by Richard Matheson. Lion (1953), 159 pp.
• The Square Trap by Irving Shulman. Little, Brown and Co. (1953), 374 pp.
• Too Rich to Die by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1953), 175 pp.
• Up a Winding Stair by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1953), 188 pp.
• White Night by Forrest Rosaire. Jonathan Cape (1954), 224 pp.
• And Dream of Evil by Tedd Thomey. Abelard-Schuman (1954), 159 pp.
• Boss Man by Roy Benard Sparkia. Lion Books (1954), 159 pp.
• Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West. Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1954), 311 pp.
• Dark Dominion by David Duncan. Ballantine Books (1954), 206 pp.
• The Deserter by Lowell Barrington. Macmillan Co. (1954), 249 pp.
• The Easter Egg Hunt by Speed Lamkin. Houghton Mifflin Co. (1954), 312 pp.
• The Face of Evil by John McPartland. Fawcett Gold Medal (1954), 153 pp.
• Find a Victim by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1954), 215 pp.
• The Gadget Maker by Maxwell Griffith. J. B. Lippincott Co. (1954), 438 pp.
• Giveaway by Steve Fisher. Random House (1954), 221 pp.
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Houghton Mifflin Co. (1954), 316 pp.
• A Lover for Cindy by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1954), 176 pp.
• Luisita by Rae Loomis. Ace Books (1954), 160 pp.
• The Nothing Man by Jim Thompson. Dell (1954), 234 pp.
• The Quality of Mercy by Robert Carson. Henry Holt and Co. (1954), 307 pp.
• The Red Jaguar by Oakley Hall [as Jason Manor]. Viking Press (1954), 184 pp.
• Senior Spring by C. G. Lumbard. Simon and Schuster (1954), 243 pp.
• Spiderweb by Robert Bloch. Ace Books (1954), 157 pp.
• Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck. Viking Press (1954), 273 pp.
• Walk toward the Rainbow by John Bell Clayton. Macmillan Co. (1954), 308 pp.
• White Night by Forrest Rosaire. Jonathan Cape (1954), 224 pp.
• Wives and Lovers by Margaret Millar. Random House (1954), 308 pp.
• The Woman on the Roof by Helen Nielsen. Ives Washburn (1954), 220 pp.
• The Actor by Niven Busch. Simon and Schuster (1955), 248 pp.
• Beyond Eden by David Duncan. Ballantine Books (1955), 169 pp.
• The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. Dell (1955), 191 pp.
• The Deer Park by Norman Mailer. G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1955), 375 pp.
• Good-Time Girl by Conrad Maine. Popular Library (1955), 144 pp.
• The Hound of Earth by Vance Bourjaily. Charles Scribner’s Sons (1955), 250 pp.
• The Hunger and the Hate by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1955), 284 pp.
• Jet Pilot by Tedd Thomey. Avon (1955), 157 pp.
• The Man Who Paid His Way by Walt Sheldon. J. B. Lippincott Co. (1955), 321 pp.
• Mardios Beach by Oakley Hall. Viking Press (1955), 282 pp.
• Pick-up by Charles Willeford. Beacon Books (1955), 191 pp.
• Sex Gantlet to Murder by Mark Shane. Fabian Books (1955), 156 pp.
• Too Near the Sun by Gordon Forbes. Dell (1955), 384 pp.
• Trap by George E. Jones. Graphic (1955), 157 pp.
• A View of the Bay by Richard Scowcroft. Houghton Mifflin (1955), 218 pp.
• Year of August by Anton Fereva. G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1955), 313 pp.
• The Barbarous Coast by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1956), 247 pp.
• The Big Nickelodeon by Maritta Wolff. Random House (1956), 373 pp.
• Catch a Falling Star by Reed Marr. Fawcett Gold Medal (1956), 158 pp.
• Cloud by Day by Ward Moore. William Heinemann (1956), 275 pp.
• Cry Blood by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1956), 192 pp.
• A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong. Coward-McCann (1956), 256 pp.
• The Girl He Left Behind by Marion Hargrove. Viking Press (1956), 191 pp.
• Killer in Silk by H. Vernor Dixon. Fawcett Gold Medal (1956), 189 pp.
• Killer in White by Tedd Thomey. Fawcett Gold Medal (1956), 144 pp.
• Love after Five by Raymond Mason. Fawcett Gold Medal (1956), 160 pp.
• The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick. Houghton Mifflin Co. (1956), 332 pp.
• The Package Deal by Willis T. Ballard. Appleton-Century-Crofts (1956), 280 pp.
• Run by Margaret Shedd. Doubleday and Co. (1956), 252 pp.
• The Self-Enchanted by David Stacton. Faber and Faber (1956), 304 pp.
• Some Die Young by James Duff. Graphic (1956), 157 pp.
• The Tramplers by Oakley Hall [as Jason Manor]. Viking Press (1956), 181 pp.
• The Wild Party by John McPartland. Fawcett Gold Medal (1956), 128 pp.
• Wild Wives by Charles Willeford. Beacon Books (1956), approx. 100 pp.
• The Adversary by H. H. Lynde. Random House (1957), 344 pp.
• The Flesh Agents by Jean C. Bosquet. Avon (1957), 159 pp.
• Cast of Characters by Al Morgan. Dutton (1957), 251 pp.
• Doctor Paradise by Jay Dratler. Popular Library (1957), 125 pp.
• Dragnet by Richard Deming. Whitman Publishing Co. (1957), 282 pp.
• The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1957), 244 pp.
• Gidget by Frederick Kohner. G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1957), 156 pp.
• The House of Numbers by Jack Finney. Dell (1957), 192 pp.
• It’s My Funeral by Peter Rabe. Fawcett Gold Medal (1957), 143 pp.
• Love among the Cannibals by Wright Morris. Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1957), 253 pp.
• No Down Payment by John McPartland. Simon and Schuster (1957), 312 pp.
• North of Market by Arthur Foff. Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1957), 181 pp.
• Sunset Strip by James Reach. Popular Library (1957), 127 pp.
• This Girl for Hire by G. G. Fickling. Pyramid Books (1957), 160 pp.
• Bright Web in the Darkness by Alexander Saxton. St. Martin’s Press (1958), 308 pp.
• Built for Trouble by Al Fray. Dell (1958), 159 pp.
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Viking Press (1958), 244 pp.
• The Doomsters by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1958), 251 pp.
• Flash and Filigree by Terry Southern. Coward-McCann (1958), 204 pp.
• Love Affair by Robert Carson. Henry Holt and Co. (1958), 439 pp.
• Lover’s Point by C. Y. Lee. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1958), 249 pp.
• The Mark by Charles E. Israel. Simon and Schuster (1958), 306 pp.
• The Marriage by Mona Williams. G. P. Putnam's Sons (1958), 320 pp.
• My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes. Harper and Brothers (1958), 183 pp.
• Playback by Raymond Chandler. Houghton Mifflin Co. (1958), 205 pp.
• Push-Over by Lora Sela. Fabian Books (1958), 153 pp.
• Ripe Fruit by John McPartland. Fawcett Gold Medal (1958), 128 pp.
• The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac. Grove Press (1958), 111 pp.
• The Tycoon and the Tigress by William Cox. Fawcett Gold Medal (1958), 188 pp.
• Young Mr. Keefe by Stephen Birmingham. Little, Brown (1958), 369 pp.
• The Chased and the Unchaste by Thomas B Dewey. New York (1959), 185 pp.
• Clown of Hemlock by Richard Ashby. Chilton Co. (1959), 342 pp.
• The Big X by Hank Searls. Harper and Brothers (1959), 241 pp.
• The Flesh Merchants by Bob Thomas. Dell (1959), 223 pp.
• The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald. Alfred A. Knopf (1959), 242 pp.
• The Heart of a Stranger by Lionel Olay. Signet (1959), 127 pp.
• In the Wrong Rain by Robert R. Kirsch. Little, Brown and Co. (1959), 339 pp.
• Kitten with a Whip by Wade Miller. Fawcett Gold Medal (1959), 174 pp.
• The Moment of Truth by William M. Goeney. Henry Holt and Co. (1959), 279 pp.
• Muscle Beach by Ira Wallach. Little, Brown and Co. (1959), 236 pp.
• Nikki by Stuart Friedman. Monarch (1959), 189 pp.
• Out for Kicks by Wilene Shaw. Ace Books (1959), 160 pp.
• Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal. Doubleday and Co. (1959), 235 pp.
• Prowler in the Night by Jack Matcha. Fawcett Gold Medal (1959), 144 pp.
• Ride the Nightmare by Richard Matheson. Ballantine (1959), 142 pp.
• The Sins of Philip Fleming by Irving Wallace. Frederick Fell (1959), 224 pp.
• The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert. Viking Press (1959), 223 pp.
• Sons of the Fathers by Martin Kramer. Macmillan Co. (1959), 342 pp.
• The Very First Time by Richard Fisher. Doubleday and Co. (1959) 192 pp.
• Yes, My Darling Daughters by David Duncan. Doubleday and Co. (1959), 238 pp.