Readings 1980

The books I read in 1980. I really wasn't a big reader that year but I did enjoy what I read. Probably too much going on. Not even one book a month.

Most of the books were bestseller types except for the Howard Zinn book which was influenced by a course I took at Temple in 1978. I had read some earlier works and we talked about his new book that would be published in 1980. I've always loved reading books on history and this one was unique. I really enjoyed The Year of the French which was a historical novel about Ireland and one of their wars of independence from England. I also very much enjoyed reading about the creation of the Panama Canal where I spent some time at in the Navy.

That Stephen King book The Stand was really something.

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, 1979
2. The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow, 1971
3. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Thomas Lewis, 1974
4. The Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan, 1979
5. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn, 1980
6. The Island - Peter Benchley, 1979
7. The Stand - Stephen King, 1978
8. Carrie - Stephen King, 1975
9. The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe, 1979
10. Walden Two - B.F. Skinner, 1948
11. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster, 1922
12. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - David McCullough, 1977