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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 — 2,005,555 ratings — published 1979
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.18 — 219,957 ratings — published 1979
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.97 — 244,897 ratings — published 1979
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,967 ratings — published 1979
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.02 — 111,192 ratings — published 1979
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.02 — 268,626 ratings — published 1978
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.17 — 94,313 ratings — published 1979
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,214 ratings — published 1979
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,957 ratings — published 1979
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,939 ratings — published 1979
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,566 ratings — published 1979
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,648 ratings — published 1979
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.29 — 41,899 ratings — published 1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,377 ratings — published 1979
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,508 ratings — published 1979
The Ghost Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,845 ratings — published 1979
The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,855 ratings — published 1979
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,718 ratings — published 1979
A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte Saga #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,584 ratings — published 1979
Legends of the Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,103 ratings — published 1979
Asterix in Belgium (Asterix, #24)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,301 ratings — published 1979
Endless Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,011 ratings — published 1979
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,429,658 ratings — published 1937
Tales of the Unexpected (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,996 ratings — published 1979
The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 42,253 ratings — published 1979
The Key to Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,102 ratings — published 1979
Sleepless Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,292 ratings — published 1979
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,406,468 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 — 14,309 ratings — published 1979
Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.26 — 45,182 ratings — published 1979
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,173 ratings — published 1979
Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.35 — 130,662 ratings — published 1979
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.89 — 71,297 ratings — published 1979
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,069 ratings — published 1974
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,273 ratings — published 1965
Passion Play (Kosinski, Jerzy)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.49 — 532 ratings — published 1979
A Walk Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,391 ratings — published 1979
Dark Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,146 ratings — published 1985
Halloween (Halloween #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,928 ratings — published 1979
The Year of the French (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,195 ratings — published 1979
The Short-Timers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,372 ratings — published 1979
The Message in the Hollow Oak (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,247 ratings — published 1935
The Little Vampire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,965 ratings — published 1979
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1979)
avg rating 3.95 — 54,068 ratings — published 1979
“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
“Before Volcker’s speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn’t fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker’s speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it.”
― Liar's Poker
― Liar's Poker
