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Anul 1956 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative.

• Kingsley Amis – That Uncertain Feeling
• Poul Anderson – Planet of No Return
• Isaac Asimov – The Naked Sun
• James Baldwin – Giovanni's Room
• Sybille Bedford – A Legacy
• Saul Bellow – Seize the Day
• Pierre Berton – The Mysterious North
• Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination (caTiger! Tiger!)
• W. E. Bowman – The Ascent of Rum Doodle
• Pearl S. Buck – Imperial Woman
• Anthony Burgess – Time for a Tiger
• Albert Camus – Căderea (La Chute)
• John Dickson Carr
  • Patrick Butler for the Defense
  • Fear is the Same (ca Carter Dickson)
• Agatha Christie – Dead Man's Folly
• Arthur C. Clarke – The City and the Stars
• A. J. Cronin
  • A Thing of Beauty
  • Crusader's Tomb
• Antonio di Benedetto – Zama
• Philip K. Dick
  • The Man Who Japed
  • The Minority Report
• Gordon R. Dickson
  • Alien From Arcturus
  • Mankind on the Run
• Alfred Döblin – Tales of a Long Night (Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende)
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt – A Dangerous Game (Die Panne – The Breakdown – or Traps)
• Ian Fleming – Diamonds Are Forever
• Romain Gary – Les Racines du ciel
• William Golding – Pincher Martin
• Henri René Guieu – Les Monstres du Néant
• Mark Harris – Bang the Drum Slowly
• Marguerite Henry – Misty of Chincoteague
• Frank Herbert – The Dragon in the Sea (first book publication)
• Georgette Heyer – Sprig Muslin
• Kathryn Hulme – The Nun's Story
• Feri Lainšček – Petelinji zajtrk
• C. S. Lewis – Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
• Rose Macaulay – The Towers of Trebizond
• Ed McBain – Cop Hater
• Naguib Mahfouz – Palace Walk (بين القصرين, Bein el-Qasrein, first of the Cairo Trilogy)
• Grace Metalious – Peyton Place
• Nicholas Monsarrat – The Tribe that Lost its Head
• Farley Mowat – Lost in the Barrens
• Agnar Mykle – The Song of the Red Ruby (Sangen om den røde rubin)
• Edwin O'Connor – The Last Hurrah
• Pier Paolo Pasolini – Ragazzi di vita
• Mervyn Peake – Boy in Darkness
• Mary Renault – The Last of the Wine
• Kenneth Roberts – Boon Island
• João Guimarães Rosa – The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grande Sertão: Veredas)
• Françoise Sagan – A Certain Smile (Un Certain Sourire)
• Samuel Selvon – The Lonely Londoners
• Irwin Shaw – Lucy Crown
• Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan
• Rex Stout
  • Might as Well Be Dead
  • Three Witnesses
• Kay Thompson – Eloise
• A. E. van Vogt – The Wizard of Linn
• Heimito von Doderer – Die Dämonen: Nach der Chronik des Sektionsrates Geyrenhoff (The Demons)
• Angus Wilson – Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
• P. G. Wodehouse – French Leave
• Kateb Yacine – Nedjma
• Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治) – The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War (Shin Heike monogatari, a retelling of The Tale of the Heike)

• Fred Gipson – Old Yeller
• Rumer Godden – The Fairy Doll
• C. S. Lewis – The Last Battle
• Ian Serraillier – The Silver Sword
• Dodie Smith – The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Eve Titus – Anatole (first in the Anatole and Basil series of 14 books)

• John G. Bennett – Dramatic Universe
• Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals
• Margery Fish – We Made a Garden
• Carl Gustav Jung – Mysterium Coniunctionis
• A. J. Liebling – The Sweet Science
• Norman Mailer – The White Negro
• Octavio Paz – El arco y la lira
• Lobsang Rampa – The Third Eye

• Zbor de noapte (Piesă în trei acte și șase tablouri), Editura militară, de Nicolae Tăutu

• Jean Anouilh – Pauvre Bitos, ou Le dîner de têtes (Poor Bitos)
• Ferdinand Bruckner – The Fight with the Angel (Der Kampf mit dem Engel)
• José Manuel Castañón – Moletú-Volevá
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Visit (Der Besuch der alten Dame)
• Max Frisch – Phiipp Hotz's Fury (Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz)
• Hugh Leonard – The Birthday Party
• Saunders Lewis – Siwan
• Bruce Mason – The Pohutukawa Tree
• Arthur Miller – A View from the Bridge (revised version)
• Yukio Mishima – Rokumeikan
• Heiner Müller and Inge Müller – Der Lohndrücker (The Scab, written)
• Eugene O'Neill – Long Day's Journey into Night
• John Osborne – Look Back in Anger
• Arnold Wesker – Chicken Soup with Barley (written)

• Allen Ginsberg – Howl and Other Poems
• Harry Martinson – Aniara
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko – Stantsiia Zima (Станция Зима, Stație de iarnă)

• Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură:

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