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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,078,892 ratings — published 1979
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.18 — 227,777 ratings — published 1979
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.97 — 254,710 ratings — published 1979
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.86 — 246,957 ratings — published 1979
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 117,288 ratings — published 1979
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.98 — 312,715 ratings — published 1979
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.16 — 95,615 ratings — published 1979
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,355 ratings — published 1979
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,850 ratings — published 1979
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,618 ratings — published 1979
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,026 ratings — published 1979
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,402 ratings — published 1979
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,224 ratings — published 1979
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.30 — 43,273 ratings — published 1979
Asterix in Belgium (Asterix, #24)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,562 ratings — published 1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,050 ratings — published 1979
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,209 ratings — published 1979
The Ghost Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,276 ratings — published 1979
The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 42,537 ratings — published 1979
The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,769 ratings — published 1979
A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte Saga #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,242 ratings — published 1979
Legends of the Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,793 ratings — published 1979
Endless Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.55 — 7,571 ratings — published 1979
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,637,530 ratings — published 1937
Tales of the Unexpected (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,339 ratings — published 1979
The Key to Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,475 ratings — published 1979
Sleepless Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,558 ratings — published 1979
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,564,309 ratings — published 1915
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,562 ratings — published 1979
Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.26 — 46,366 ratings — published 1979
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 22,867 ratings — published 1979
Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.35 — 134,418 ratings — published 1979
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 72,256 ratings — published 1979
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,589 ratings — published 1974
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.86 — 57,376 ratings — published 1965
Passion Play (Kosinski, Jerzy)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.49 — 535 ratings — published 1979
A Walk Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,570 ratings — published 1979
Dark Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,237 ratings — published 1985
Halloween (Halloween #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,984 ratings — published 1979
The Year of the French (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,232 ratings — published 1979
The Short-Timers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,504 ratings — published 1979
The Message in the Hollow Oak (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,575 ratings — published 1935
The Little Vampire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,097 ratings — published 1979
“I was tidying old papers when I came across a faded "1979" folder. Remember what a bad year that was for those who believed in a self-governing Scotland? In March, a referendum for a "Scottish Assembly", its terms skewed to ensure failure. Then a General Election which slaughtered the SNP down to a mere two MPs and brought Mrs. Thatcher to power. End of a dream?
Two things fell out of the folder. One was a giant paper rosette, all blood-red tartan and ribbons, inscribed "Have yourself a Dreich Decade!" The rosette came from irrepressible Murray Grigor, whose films and happenings still teach Scots to find self-confidence through self-mockery. Get a grip, he seemed to be saying, and you can turn these dreich 1980s into what they did in fact become - the most intense eruption of Scottish literature, drama, painting and history publication for a hundred years.
The other thing was a note from Tom Nairn. It began: "Dear Neal, the incorrigible optimist strikes again...”
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Two things fell out of the folder. One was a giant paper rosette, all blood-red tartan and ribbons, inscribed "Have yourself a Dreich Decade!" The rosette came from irrepressible Murray Grigor, whose films and happenings still teach Scots to find self-confidence through self-mockery. Get a grip, he seemed to be saying, and you can turn these dreich 1980s into what they did in fact become - the most intense eruption of Scottish literature, drama, painting and history publication for a hundred years.
The other thing was a note from Tom Nairn. It began: "Dear Neal, the incorrigible optimist strikes again...”
―
“There has been some talk (but not enough) about the political and social consequences of the devolution fiasco three years ago, but none at all about the cultural consequences. At the time my friends were startled and mystified when I told them what a blow the result had been to me, not as a person but as a novelist who thought his mission was to portray the Scottish people. I could not see how any writer could portray with enthusiasm and conviction a nation that had so little faith in itself as to reject a modest degree of self-government or, to put it more accurately, to let itself be cheated by a piece of parliamentary chicanery. In Canada I could hardly get anyone to believe me when I explained the 40% condition.”
― The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 27
― The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 27
