The Next Best Book Club discussion

I incidentaly realised that some books I liked had been first published in my birth year. This gave me the idea to sum a list with the books first published in 1965.

So, I will start with

1965, first published:

- The Magus (John Fowles)
- In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut
- The Red and the Green (Iris Murdoch)

What about you? And some new inputs for 1965?

I can't even begin to imagine....or find a list

Neat...okay here are some books I actually read that are from 1984:
Thinner-Bachman
The Talisman-Kin
A House on Mango Street-Cisneros
Love Medicine-Erdrich

KrIsTiE fAyE, if 1979, I think I have one. "In of a Winter's Night a Traveler", by Italo Calvino. I read it long time ago.

A couple books published the year I was born...

The color purple
North and South
'A' is for alibi
My sweet Audrina

that's just a few of the books that came out in 1982.

Ok..I feel old :-)

Cynthia, we have the same birth year. Also published: Allende's House of the Spirits, The BFG, and Conan the Barbarian. Three authors, Ayn Rand, Philip K Dick, and John Cheever, died that year, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel prize for literature.

Anyway, I am looking in Wikipedia and this is what I came up with..along with TONS that I had never heard of. :-)

1967
S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders (HOW exciting..this is one of my ALL-TIME favorite books. YAY!!)

Robert E. Howard - Conan the Warrior

Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby

Daniel Pratt Mannix IV - The Fox and the Hound

Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (DID NOT LIKE THIS BOOK...)

Catherine Marshall - Christy (Another one of my favorites)

Chaim Potok - The Chosen

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Ángel Asturias


Newbery Medal for children's literature: Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Bernard Malamud - The Fixer

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anne Sexton: Live or Die

In 1977 Stephen King published The Shining while Richard Bachman published Rage. Also, J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion and Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly

No Pulitzer in fiction awarded.

I also found out that Jonathan Safran Foer was born that year.

I couldn't possibly list all of the books in my birth year. There are 84 of them, and most of them are well-known books and authors.

Operandi, which one you read and consider as closest to your inner self?

In 1976:

Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judith Guest - Ordinary People
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun
Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Ones that I've read from 1978 are

The World According to Garp
The Stand
A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Wikipedia also says that Christina Crawford published Mommie Dearest and that Pope John Paul I died that year.

That wikipedia reference was fun. I was born in 1975 and here are a few of my favorites from the list:

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Salem's Lot by Stephen Kin
Curtain by Agatha Christie

Hm... the list was shorter than I thought it would be... slow here for me. =)

Don't feel bad, Leppaluoto, I'm in the same generation! And I co-teach with a girl who is younger than the number of years I've spent teaching!
For 1960:
Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
Dr. Suess - Green Eggs and Ham (LOL, that was always my favorite!)
Elie Wiesel - Night (first publication in English)

Newbery Award - Onion John

And strangely enough, Neil Gaiman was born that year too!

1973

The Rachel Papers -- Martin Amis
The Princess Bride -- William Goldman
Sula -- Toni Morrison
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut
Fear of Flying -- Erica Jong (which was curiously not listed on Wikipedia with the rest of these.)

J.R.R. Tolkien died that year.

Ditto with Starlight!

Plus Vietnam war ended!

oh dear, there were quiet a few but the only ONE I've read is The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. It's a pretty cool book though :)
1980

Ken, it was a great year. It was discovered what prevents most of the particles coming from Sun to hit Earth. Earths's magnetosphere was discovered that year! Than, in the same year "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was first published. I love this book. Also, it is considered to be the birth year for Bosa nova, at Rio de Janeiro!

1993 (Wohoo! First 90's born person to post in this thread!!!)

**Lois Lowry - The Giver(This is the only one of the ones posted I've read)
Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
John Grisham - The Client
Tom Clancy - Without Remorse

I posted all the one that I read and the authors I knew!

Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison (WoHoo)

Laura, it was the year of "The Name of the Rose" (Umberto Eco) first publishing. I read it first time in 1986. It still overwhelms me. The same year brought the first laser printer ever. Made by HP.

Dawn, it was a generous year! It was the year of "Belle de Jour" by Luis Bunuel, with Catherine Deneuve. Wonderfull movie. Classic Bunuel. Amazing Deneuve. And the first pulsating star(pulsar) was discovered. The first Boeing 737 made its first commercial flight. And the Britain's first color TV broadcasting was made (BBC).

Starlight, Emilee, despite an important energy crisis, your year will forever be remembered as the year when the Sydney Opera House was opened, in Australia. It was also the year when a great and subtle movie was released - "Scenes of a Marriage", by Ingmar Bergman.

1989-

Ken Follet- The Pillars of the Earth
John Irving- A Prayer for Owen Meany
Amy Tan- The Joy Luck Club

Also Daphne du Maurier died. She wrote the short story The Birds, which later became a motion picture. That movie is the reason I am now terrified of birds and won't go near them. A bird has actually attacked me too.

Cynthia, Laura, it was the year of the first CD-ROM. Two great movies were released. "Gandhi", by Richard Attemborough, with the impressive Ben Kingsley. And "The World According to Garp", by George Roy Hill, with Robin Williams. I was very touched by this movie. Two books I love were first published: "Aunt Julia and the Scriotwriter" (Mario Vargas Llosa) and "A Wild Sheep Chase" (Haruki Murakami).

Jeremy, in your year the famous "Orient Express" made its last trip, from Paris to Istambul (first was in 1883). The production on insulin was announced. Great music - Flatwood Mac "Rumours" album.

I am the 80's starter! So many books for that year and of the list here under I only read one (Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear):-)
I was jsut thinking that it would be a great challenge to try to read 'all' the books published for the first time int he year you were born!
Books for 1980:

Richard Adams
The Girl in a Swing
The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
Warren Adler - War of the Roses
Woody Allen - Side Effects
Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
Ramsey Campbell, editor - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Bruce Chatwin - The Viceroy of Ouidah
Mary Higgins Clark - The Cradle Will Fall
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre -The Fifth Horseman
Basil Copper -Necropolis
L. Sprague de Camp
Conan and the Spider God
The Purple Pterodactyls
Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster
E. L. Doctorow - In Loon Lake
Allan W. Eckert - Song of the Wild
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Ken Follett - The Key to Rebecca
Frederick Forsyth - The Devil's Alternative
Mary Jayne Gold - Crossroads Marseilles 1940
Douglas Hill - Deathwing Over Veynaa
Douglas Hill - Day of the Starwind
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - The Treasure of Tranicos
L. Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth
P. D. James - Innocent Blood
Stephen King - Firestarter
Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy
Björn Kurtén - Dance of the Tiger
John le Carré - Smiley's People
Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Spooks and Spectres
James A. Michener - The Covenant

Gay TaleseRobert B. Parker - Looking for Rachel Wallace
Belva Plain - Random Winds
Marin Preda - Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)
Herman Raucher - There Should Have Been Castles
Mordecai Richler - Joshua Then and Now
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Sidney Sheldon - Rage of Angels
Gay Talese - Thy Neighbor's Wife
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
Roger Zelazny
Changeling
The Last Defender of Camelot

Lori, very interesting year! The first pictures of Mars' surface were sent us, by Viking 1. Also, it was the first commercial flight of the first Concorde plane. Mirosoft Corp. was founded. One of my loved songs, "All by Myself", was composed. It was "The Taxi Driver", by Martin Scorsese, with a realistic Robert de Niro. And "Roots" by Alex Haley was first published.

JG, the first episode of "Garfield", by James Robert! I LOVE THIS CAT! Another song I love was composed, "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel). And a book I will read was first published, "The Sea, the Sea" by Iris Murdoch.

Rebecca, a full year! Montserrat Caballe made her debut, at La Scala. Than, two great movies were released. "The Apartment", by Billy Wilder, with a Jack Lemmon impossible to not fall in love with. And the flamboyant "La Dolve Vita", by Federico Fellini, with a Marcello Mastroiani that, if not so much adored by so many, it could worth to fall in love with. One of my to-read was first published: "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike. And the laser was first operated and the modem was invented.

Jenn, two books I read were also first published. "Coversation in the Cathedral" by Mario Vargas Llosa and "Humbold's Gift" by Saul Bellow. "One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest" by Milos Forman, with Jack Nicholson. Great performance.

Andrew, 2 to-read for me: "The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields and "Opeartion Shylock: A Confession" by Philip Roth. Harrison Ford was good in "The Fugitive" (Andrew Davis). And the Macarena song, obsessive & everywhere.

1967 is already up above, and I looked on the list and have not read any of the books on it. Here are some, I never heard of

The Owl Service by Alan Garner
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
A New Lease of Death by Ruth Rendell
The Arrangement by Elia Kazan

Maybe I'll make an effort to read some of them. I do actually like Thornton Wilder.

I was born in 1966.

Some of the books published that year which I have enjoyed:

The Castle of Llyr - Lloyd Alexander
S is for Space - Ray Bradbury
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard

Valley of the Dolls, Flowers for Algernon, and The Last Picture Show were all published that year, as well.

Dune won the Hugo Award.

Evelyn Waugh died.

1968 here: Many big world events esp. in the U.S.
Some books are: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Escape to Witch Mountain (also great movie)
The Spider Sapphire Mystery (Nancy Drew)
Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut)
The Foot Book (Seuss)
The High King (Alexander)
Helen Keller dies as well as Upton Sinclair and
John Steinbeck and M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy.
Hmm, must rethink life using the zodiac...
Found one goody - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!
Lots of great movies also in that year.

Brittany, sorry for what happened you. I only saw the movie and I must say the idea scares me. Two books that I like were also first published in your year: "Norwegian Wood" (Haruki Murakami) and "The Remains of the Day" (Kazuo Ishiguro). First releases of two nice songs: "Girl You Know It's True" (Milli Vanilli) and "Oh Mercy" (Bob Dylan). I enjoyed A LOT a movie that was released in 1989: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (by Terry Gillian). And also "Born on the fourth of July" by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise.

Susanna, also first published: "The Comedians" (Graham Greene) and "Tai-Pan" (James Clavell). It was the year when the Beatles released "Yellow Submarine"! There is a movie that was released in your year and that immediately became a classic film - "A Man and a Woman" by Claude Lelouch, with the unforgettable Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Trintignant. And the Metropolitan Opera House was opened, at New York.

Pumpkin, I recently read "Welcome to the Monkey House" and I like it. Your year was the year of "The Space Odysey" of Stanley Kubrik. And of "The Lion in Winter" by Anthony Harvey, with the unforgettable Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn. In like very much the Beatles' "Lady Madona" and "Hey, Jude", that were also released in your year. And Luciano Pavarotti made his Metropolitan Opera debut. As IT novelty, since your year all of us are using the mouse!

Omg! I used to love Escape to Witch Mountain! Except the puppet part. I always closed my eyes for that part...

Brittany, I hate birds too and it is all because of that movie! I was also sort of attacked by a goose once, so it just reinforced my fear.

(Just going off what I found on line!)
1985:

-The Polar Express
-Garfield: Big Fat Book of Jokes and Riddles
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts
-If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

1949

Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm
Miguel Ángel Asturias - Men of Maize
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph
Elizabeth Bowen - The Heat of the Day
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Fredric Brown - The Screaming Mimi
Pearl S. Buck - The Angry Wife
Dorothy Bussy - Olivia (published anonymously)
Taylor Caldwell - Let Love Come Last
John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" - A Graveyard To Let
Agatha Christie - Crooked House
Foster Fitzsimmons - Bright Leaf
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. - The Way West
John Hawkes - Cannibal
Marguerite Henry - King of the Wind
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories
Alaric Jacob - Scenes from a Bourgeois Life
Marghanita Laski - Little Boy Lost
H. P. Lovecraft - Something About Cats and Other Pieces
Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
C. L. Moore - Beyond Earth's Gates
John O'Hara - A Rage To Live
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ruth Park - Poor Man's Orange
Karel Poláček - There Were Five of Us (Czech Bylo nás pět)
Ellery Queen - Cat of Many Tails
Harold Robbins - The Dream Merchants
Jack Schaefer - Shane
Anna Seghers - Die Toten Bleiben Jung
Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
Rex Stout - Trouble in Triplicate
Rex Stout - The Second Confession
Edward Streeter - Father of the Bride
Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee
Mika Waltari - The Egyptian
S. Fowler Wright - The Throne of Saturn
Frank Yerby - Pride's Castle

I recognize a couple like Shane and Father of the Bride. Now I have a new project. I am going to see if I can find any of these.

Is there anyone else that was born before the 60's?

Monica wrote: "(Just going off what I found on line!)
1985:

-The Polar Express
-Garfield: Big Fat Book of Jokes and Riddles
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts
-If You Give a..."

Yay! two of my favorite books! (The polar express and if you give a mouse a cookie lol) and incidentally, the year i was born as well :D

Here are a few more: The Handmaid's Tale by Margartet Atwood (another fav)
Ender's Game- by Orson Scott Card
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan
Dogsong by Gary Paulson

Born in 1987:

1. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy