These books were the top sellers in the year I was born
and I haven't read any of them!
Find out what books were popular (among other things) when YOU were born here.
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
Two Poems of the Air by James Dickey
Second Skin by John Hawkes
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
- Voltaire
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* Louise Bogan, Collected Poems, 1923—1953
* William F. Buckley, L. Brent Bozell, McCarthy and His Enemies
* William Golding, Lord of the Flies
* Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
* J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
were books on the shelves the year I was born and I don't believe I've read any of those either.
I couldn't find mine! I will tell you this, you were born the same year as my daughter. No wonder I like you!! :)
Have a wonderful day!
interesting post, joni....i found out that "the robe" and "from here to eternity" were two of the bestsellers when i was born....have heard so much about them, but never actually read the books!
reading and dancing.....i totally agree!
hugs,
kimberly
Fun! I haven't read any of those books either. I'll check out that site and see mine. Have a great evening.
mine is the same as your's...after all we where born the same year =)
very interesting.....love ya LOTS!!
Nettie
I don't expect you did that much reading back when you were a newbie! :) Te-He-Lydia
Music
Carmen Cavallaro, "Dancing in the Dark"
"Chiquita Banana"
Coleman Hawkins, "Say It Isn't So"
Frank Sinatra, "The Voice of Frank Sinatra"
"Tenderly"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah"
Books
Elizabeth Bishop, North and South
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
Benjamin Spock, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding
William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Part One
1946 was the year! Just shows how old I am!
You were all much quicker than I was at navigating that site..I have only just found out how to get there!
Now there are heaps more books for me to read!
Thanks for visiting Joni...I am looking fwd to getting home, and seeing Abbey ..not looking fwd to all the leaves that have fallen from the gum trees...into the pool! Have also enjoyed posting photos of New York..has been great fun, and the kids are doing just fine with the new baby too!
I am just going to miss them all!! Thankyou God for the internet and webcams!
Annie
ps Great to read your blog always..and that is an interesting site you have shown us! I am at the moment chatting (typing) on skype with my oldest (8 yr old)grand daughter before she goes to school wow...first time..!! How lovely!
*Saul Bellow, The Victim
*Gerald Warner Brace, The Garretson Chronicle
*Martin Flavin, The Enchanted
*Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
*Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
*Thomas Mann, Dr. Faustus
*Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism
I've read "The Victim" and "The Diary of a Young Girl" but I've had more years than y'all have had. LOL
Very interesting. I wanted to stop by after finding you through some favorite sites of mine. By Love Possessed and Scapegoat were best sellers the year I was born. Neither of which I have read. Kids Say the Darnedest Things and Cat in the Hat were also best sellers. It looks like there is much to see and I'll have to be back.
I don't know if today is your birthday but if it is Happy Birthday dear girl. I was born a couple of years after you.
I love Ernest Hemingways, A Moveable Feast. I have always wanted to read Katherine Anne Porter's work. I think I will check someof her stuff out this week.
Sending You much Love, Nita
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