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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,088,944 ratings — published 1979
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.18 — 228,909 ratings — published 1979
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.97 — 256,463 ratings — published 1979
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.86 — 248,454 ratings — published 1979
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.00 — 118,090 ratings — published 1979
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.97 — 318,230 ratings — published 1979
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.16 — 95,853 ratings — published 1979
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,492 ratings — published 1979
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 85,372 ratings — published 1979
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,342 ratings — published 1979
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,651 ratings — published 1979
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,504 ratings — published 1979
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,288 ratings — published 1979
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.30 — 43,529 ratings — published 1979
Asterix in Belgium (Asterix, #24)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,605 ratings — published 1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,369 ratings — published 1979
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,501 ratings — published 1979
The Ghost Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,338 ratings — published 1979
The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 42,604 ratings — published 1979
The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,933 ratings — published 1979
A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte Saga #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,457 ratings — published 1979
Legends of the Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,878 ratings — published 1979
Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.35 — 135,638 ratings — published 1979
Endless Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.55 — 7,635 ratings — published 1979
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,666,953 ratings — published 1937
Tales of the Unexpected (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,382 ratings — published 1979
The Key to Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,510 ratings — published 1979
Sleepless Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,582 ratings — published 1979
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,584,804 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 — 14,600 ratings — published 1979
Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.26 — 46,598 ratings — published 1979
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 22,996 ratings — published 1979
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 72,571 ratings — published 1979
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,698 ratings — published 1974
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.85 — 57,539 ratings — published 1965
Yargo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,028 ratings — published 1979
Passion Play (Kosinski, Jerzy)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.49 — 538 ratings — published 1979
A Walk Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,594 ratings — published 1979
Dark Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,256 ratings — published 1985
Halloween (Halloween #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,047 ratings — published 1979
The Year of the French (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,236 ratings — published 1979
The Short-Timers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,532 ratings — published 1979
The Message in the Hollow Oak (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,622 ratings — published 1935
“It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.”
― Inequalities in Zimbabwe
― Inequalities in Zimbabwe
“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...”
―
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...”
―
