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1977 Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,695,024 ratings — published 1977
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 333,412 ratings — published 1977
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 587,877 ratings — published 1977
A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 109,944 ratings — published 1977
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.25 — 364,051 ratings — published 1977
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,876 ratings — published 1977
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.11 — 53,707 ratings — published 1977
Rage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.71 — 57,370 ratings — published 1977
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.83 — 137,848 ratings — published 1977
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,625 ratings — published 1977
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,216 ratings — published 1977
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.95 — 23,523 ratings — published 1977
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,343 ratings — published 1977
The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,439 ratings — published 1977
A Book of Common Prayer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,514 ratings — published 1977
Shanna (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,185 ratings — published 1977
The Howling (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,483 ratings — published 1977
Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.31 — 109,776 ratings — published 1977
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,666 ratings — published 1977
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,507 ratings — published 1977
Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,996 ratings — published 1977
A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,735 ratings — published 1977
The Public Burning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,506 ratings — published 1977
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,269 ratings — published 1977
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,071 ratings — published 1977
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 47,405 ratings — published 1977
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,302 ratings — published 1977
Oliver's Story (Love Story, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.26 — 6,847 ratings — published 1977
Daniel Martin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,840 ratings — published 1977
Midnight Express (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,709 ratings — published 1977
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,094 ratings — published 1977
I Am the Cheese (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.78 — 17,512 ratings — published 1977
The Plague Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,865 ratings — published 1977
A Judgement in Stone (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,062 ratings — published 1977
Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,220 ratings — published 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,279 ratings — published 1977
Our Lady of Darkness (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,419 ratings — published 1977
Suffer the Children (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.92 — 31,507 ratings — published 1977
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,922 ratings — published 1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,921 ratings — published 1977
Coming Into the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,585 ratings — published 1977
A Way of Life, Like Any Other (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,431 ratings — published 1977
The Vision (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,082 ratings — published 1977
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,473 ratings — published 1977
The Warriors (Kent Family Chronicles, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,620 ratings — published 1977
“The fateful moment for the Chinese economy, crippled by central planning and collectivized production, was when Deng Xiaoping, China’s long-term leader after Mao’s death, announced that the country would pursue “Socialism with Chinese characteristics,” which is to say a market economy under an authoritarian technocracy. This was in 1977, as good a year as any for marking the birth of modern China. Deng and his associates undertook a job akin to that of a political bomb squad, laboriously dismantling most of the economic ideology installed by Mao without blowing up political continuity at the same time. That they succeeded is in many ways the single most important political fact of contemporary China.”
― Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream
― Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream
“A committed escaper! One who never for a minute doubts that a man cannot live behind bars—not even as the most comfortable of trusties, in the accounts office, in the Culture and Education Section, or in charge of the bread ration. One who once he lands in prison spends every waking hour thinking about escape and dreams of escape at night. One who has vowed never to resign himself, and subordinates every action to his need to escape. One for whom a day in prison can never be just another day; there are only days of preparation for escape, days on the run, and days in the punishment cells after recapture and a beating.
A committed escaper! This means one who knows what he is undertaking. One who has seen the bullet-riddled bodies of other escapers on display along the central tract. He has also seen those brought back alive—like the man who was taken from hut to hut, black and blue and coughing blood, and made o shout: "Prisoners! Look at what happened to me! It can happen to you, too!" He knows that a runaway's body is usually too heavy to be delivered to camp. And that therefore the head alone is brought back in a duffel bag, sometimes (this is more reliable proof, according to the rulebook) together with the right arm, chopped off at the elbow, so that the Special Section can check the fingerprints and write the man off.
A committed escaper! It is for his benefit that window bars are set in cement, that the camp area is encircled with dozens of strands of barbed wire, towers, fences, reinforced barriers, that ambushes and booby traps are set, that red meat is fed to gray dogs.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
A committed escaper! This means one who knows what he is undertaking. One who has seen the bullet-riddled bodies of other escapers on display along the central tract. He has also seen those brought back alive—like the man who was taken from hut to hut, black and blue and coughing blood, and made o shout: "Prisoners! Look at what happened to me! It can happen to you, too!" He knows that a runaway's body is usually too heavy to be delivered to camp. And that therefore the head alone is brought back in a duffel bag, sometimes (this is more reliable proof, according to the rulebook) together with the right arm, chopped off at the elbow, so that the Special Section can check the fingerprints and write the man off.
A committed escaper! It is for his benefit that window bars are set in cement, that the camp area is encircled with dozens of strands of barbed wire, towers, fences, reinforced barriers, that ambushes and booby traps are set, that red meat is fed to gray dogs.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
