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1 Events

• Writing under the pseudonym of " Emile Ajar ," author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.

• Hearing Secret Harmonies , the twelfth and final novel of the A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.

• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow is published.

2 New Books

• The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
• Black Sunday - Thomas Harris
• The Choirboys - Joseph WambaughJoseph Wambaugh (born January 22, 1937) is an American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the U. Wambaugh's unique perspective on the realities of police work comes from experience: he was a former Los Angeles poli
• CurtainA curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light. Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's window to block the travel of light, for instance at night to aid sleeping, or to stop light from escaping outside the building (stoppi - Agatha ChristieDame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE ( September 15, 1890 January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott . Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling
• Dead Babies - Martin AmisMartin Amis (born in Oxford, August 25, 1949) is an English novelist and son of Sir Kingsley Amis. His first novel The Rachel Papers (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974), is about the adventures of a bright, egotistical teenager (presumably not
• DhalgrenDhalgren is an 800+ page science fiction novel by Samuel R. Publishing history Dhalgren was originally published in 1974 as a paperback original (a Frederik Pohl selection) by Bantam Books. The Bantam edition of Dhalgren went through 17 printings, selling - Samuel R. DelanySamuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. born April 1, 1942) is a gay Black American writer, academic, and literary critic. Delany was born and raised in Harlem and attended the Bronx High School of Science. Delany and the poet Marilyn Hacker, who met in high school
• The Eagle Has LandedThe Eagle Has Landed is a book by Jack Higgins first published in 1975. It was made into a film in 1976. The book is still in print, as it was reissued in New York by Berkley Books in 2000 with BooksEnthsiast.com The film starred Michael Caine, Donald Suther - Jack HigginsJack Higgins is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson (b. Patterson is the author of more than sixty novels. Most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, nearly all have been be
• A Fine and Private Place - Morley Callaghan
• The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
• Hang That Nigger - Arthur Robinson
• Hearing Secret Harmonies - Anthony Powell
• Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury
• Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
• In A Shallow Grave - James Purdy
• Inside the Company: CIA Diary - Philip Agee
• Looking for Mister Goodbar - Judith Rossner
• Mr. Schutzer - Timothy L. Bottoms
• The Moneychangers - Arthur Hailey
• My Lord John – Georgette Heyer
• Northern Lights - Tim O'Brien
• Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
• The Road to Gandolfo - Robert Ludlum
• Rudyard Kipling and His World - Kingsley Amis
• 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
• Shogun - James Clavell
• La vie devant soi - Romain Gary as Emile Ajar
• Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
• World of Wonders - Robertson Davies