In 1958, the prizes ReadingRate follows named 7 winners. The most approachable is A Death in the Family by James Agee (difficulty 45/100, about 6.5 hours); the hardest is The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (59/100).
Earlier: 1957 · Every year · Later: 1959
Other prizes: Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, International Booker Prize, National Book Award for Fiction, Women's Prize for Fiction, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Prix Goncourt, Dublin Literary Award, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Costa Novel Award, Albert J. Beveridge Award, Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. Every literary prize; every winner of 2026.