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1979 Books
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,029,239 ratings — published 1979
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.18 — 222,568 ratings — published 1979
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.97 — 247,981 ratings — published 1979
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.86 — 240,054 ratings — published 1979
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 113,150 ratings — published 1979
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.00 — 285,539 ratings — published 1979
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.17 — 94,739 ratings — published 1979
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,564 ratings — published 1979
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,539 ratings — published 1979
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 65,778 ratings — published 1979
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,884 ratings — published 1979
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,887 ratings — published 1979
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,320 ratings — published 1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,809 ratings — published 1979
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,930 ratings — published 1979
The Ghost Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,955 ratings — published 1979
The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,164 ratings — published 1979
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,882 ratings — published 1979
A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte Saga #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,780 ratings — published 1979
Legends of the Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,307 ratings — published 1979
Asterix in Belgium (Asterix, #24)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,393 ratings — published 1979
Endless Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,175 ratings — published 1979
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,490,133 ratings — published 1937
Tales of the Unexpected (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,112 ratings — published 1979
The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 42,341 ratings — published 1979
The Key to Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,213 ratings — published 1979
Sleepless Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,374 ratings — published 1979
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,453,971 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 — 14,376 ratings — published 1979
Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.26 — 45,582 ratings — published 1979
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,350 ratings — published 1979
Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.35 — 131,875 ratings — published 1979
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.89 — 71,620 ratings — published 1979
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,298 ratings — published 1974
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,683 ratings — published 1965
Passion Play (Kosinski, Jerzy)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.49 — 534 ratings — published 1979
A Walk Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,454 ratings — published 1979
Dark Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,163 ratings — published 1985
Halloween (Halloween #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,938 ratings — published 1979
The Year of the French (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,202 ratings — published 1979
The Short-Timers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,426 ratings — published 1979
The Message in the Hollow Oak (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,352 ratings — published 1935
The Little Vampire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,013 ratings — published 1979
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 54,610 ratings — published 1979
“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
“Coincidences undeniably imply meaning.
I am rereading Hart Crane.
I notice the date
On which he stepped off that boat
Was April 26.
Tomorrow is April 26.
The year of his suicide was 1932.
I was four.
I am now fifty-one.
One undeniable implication in this case then
Is that the year, today,
Is 1979.
Afterward, Crane’s mother scrubbed floors.
Eventually, I may or may not
Jump overboard.
Are there questions?”
― Collected Poems
I am rereading Hart Crane.
I notice the date
On which he stepped off that boat
Was April 26.
Tomorrow is April 26.
The year of his suicide was 1932.
I was four.
I am now fifty-one.
One undeniable implication in this case then
Is that the year, today,
Is 1979.
Afterward, Crane’s mother scrubbed floors.
Eventually, I may or may not
Jump overboard.
Are there questions?”
― Collected Poems
