1950 in literature

See also: 1949 in literature, other events of 1950, 1951 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
• The Adventurer - Mika Waltari
• Beetlecreek - William Demby
• Cabbagetown - Hugh Garner
• The Cardinal - Henry Morton Robinson
• The Child Who Never Grew - Pearl S. Buck
• The Disenchanted - Budd Schulberg
• The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli
• The Town and the City - Jack Kerouac
• Floodtide - Frank Yerby
• Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith
• The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
• I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
• Joy Street - Frances Parkinson Keyes
• Jubilee Trail - Gwen Bristow
• Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
• The Liberal Imagination - Lionel Trilling
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
• The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi
• The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
• Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
• The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier
• Reading and Criticism - Raymond Williams
• Star Money - Kathleen Winsor
• Summer In The Country - Edith Templeton
• La vida breve (A Brief Life) - Juan Carlos Onetti
• The Wall - John Hersey