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1969 Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,476,329 ratings — published 1969
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.40 — 461,853 ratings — published 1969
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.10 — 218,413 ratings — published 1969
Portnoy’s Complaint (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,534 ratings — published 1969
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.30 — 578,501 ratings — published 1969
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 13 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.89 — 398,576 ratings — published 1969
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.91 — 270,768 ratings — published 1969
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.23 — 75,423 ratings — published 1969
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
by (shelved 9 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.34 — 545,432 ratings — published 1969
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,429 ratings — published 1969
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,935 ratings — published 1969
The House on the Strand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,678 ratings — published 1969
I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,103 ratings — published 1969
The Big Bounce (Jack Ryan, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.40 — 2,700 ratings — published 1969
Travels with My Aunt (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.80 — 16,970 ratings — published 1969
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 6 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.56 — 104,292 ratings — published 1969
The Edible Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,421 ratings — published 1969
Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,968 ratings — published 1969
Summer of '69 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.95 — 165,747 ratings — published 2019
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,272 ratings — published 1969
Inside the Third Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,282 ratings — published 1969
Asterix in Spain (Asterix, #14)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,821 ratings — published 1969
The Green Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,523 ratings — published 1969
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.06 — 15,895 ratings — published 1969
Conversation in the Cathedral: A Haunting Exploration of Dictatorship and Identity in 1950s Peru (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,649 ratings — published 1969
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,837,633 ratings — published 2006
Them (Wonderland Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,717 ratings — published 1969
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,173 ratings — published 1969
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,433 ratings — published 1969
Creatures of Light and Darkness (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,796 ratings — published 1969
Puppet on a Chain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,133 ratings — published 1969
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,234 ratings — published 1969
Bruno's Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,256 ratings — published 1969
The Moonshine War (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,413 ratings — published 1969
The Stud (Fontaine Khaled, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,317 ratings — published 1969
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,072 ratings — published 2020
Delta of Venus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.60 — 25,324 ratings — published 1977
My Darling, My Hamburger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,283 ratings — published 1969
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,535 ratings — published 1969
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,971 ratings — published 1969
The Inheritors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.67 — 727 ratings — published 1975
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,898 ratings — published 1969
Naked Came the Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1969)
avg rating 2.97 — 413 ratings — published 1969
The Mephisto Waltz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.69 — 424 ratings — published 1969
Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1969)
avg rating 3.83 — 132 ratings — published 1969
“In capitalism economic activity, success, material gains, become ends in themselves. It becomes man’s fate to contribute to the growth of the economic system, to amass capital, not for purposes of his own happiness or salvation; but as an end in itself. Man became a cog in the vast economic machine—an important one if he had much capital, an insignificant one if he had none—but always a cog to serve a purpose outside of himself. This readiness for submission of one’s self to extra-human ends was actually prepared by Protestantism, although nothing was further from Luther's or Calvin’s mind than the approval of such supremacy of economic activities. But in their theological teaching they had laid the ground for this development by breaking man’s spiritual backbone, his feeling of dignity and pride, by teaching him that activity had no further aims outside himself.”
― Escape from Freedom
― Escape from Freedom
“Sept 27-69-6.30 by knife by Stewart Stafford
I am the thief on the golden hill,
Predator in sight, a hooded chill,
Masked, armed and primed to strike,
Prey pinned by the lake, as I like.
Tie them up on blankets, used,
In time they'll see it's all a ruse,
Pretend to leave, then come back,
Back-slashed in a frenzied attack.
Left to die, their assailant gone,
Darkness falls on two bleeding fawns,
Stagger up the hill to try and get aid,
Passing out as the lifeforce fades.
Flashlight in the eyes, back for the kill!
Help arrives, shakily standing still,
Message on his car, Zodiac was here,
He lived, she passed, and then only fear.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
―
I am the thief on the golden hill,
Predator in sight, a hooded chill,
Masked, armed and primed to strike,
Prey pinned by the lake, as I like.
Tie them up on blankets, used,
In time they'll see it's all a ruse,
Pretend to leave, then come back,
Back-slashed in a frenzied attack.
Left to die, their assailant gone,
Darkness falls on two bleeding fawns,
Stagger up the hill to try and get aid,
Passing out as the lifeforce fades.
Flashlight in the eyes, back for the kill!
Help arrives, shakily standing still,
Message on his car, Zodiac was here,
He lived, she passed, and then only fear.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
―
