What a fun week it has been! The 1936 Club has been so fruitful – fascinating to see what the world was reading on the cusp of war, and what variety there is, as always.
For the next club in October, we’re jumping forward a few decades. Get searching your bookshelves – and here is your six-month warning for the 1976 Club!
How to make me feel old!! Picking the year my baby sister was born!
Don’t worry, Brona, I feel even older when I read your comment. That was the year I finished my education including two years of apprenticship. LOL.
I’m in the middle of reading my 1976 book, a non-fiction:
Hoimar von Ditfurth “Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel: Die Evolution unseres Bewußtseins” [The mind did not fall from the sky: the evolution of our consciousness] – 1976
I finished my book and here is my review.
Love these Clubs…you do realise that, in order to have the dates to hand for these events, I’ve been thru my entire library recording when all my books were published in a special notebook !! xxxxxx
If you’re on Goodreads, you can sort by date of publication. Open your Want-to-read shelf and then go to settings and select date pub(lished). Then click on that heading and it will sort earliest to latest, and if you click on it again it reverses the order to latest to earlier.
What a great idea Starbox!
I am thrilled to discover that Amanda Cross published The Question of Max in 1976 – an excuse for yet another reread. It’s not my very favourite of her Kate Fansler mysteries but I love them all.
Now I’ll see what else may fit the bill.
Excited already!
Now that I’ve read this in time, I shall plan ahead and do better than my one read this time
It’s been a wonderful week of 1936 reading, and I’m so looking forward to 1976! :D
The year my daughter was born. Sounds like a club I should be joining.
As usual, I plan to participate and — who knows? — I’m reasonably optimistic that I’ll actually make it this time! (moves are completed, boxes mostly unpacked and books are reasonably in order). 1976 sounds like an exciting choice for reading selections & I’m off to see what was published that year!
Yes! My era – I was 16 – and I am bound to have a good choice of books to read.
Exciting! Looking forward to this and already starting to put together a list of ideas.
Thanks for organizing the 1936 Club! It’s been fun. I’ve been poking around & have a few oddballs at hand for 1976. Willie Sutton’s Where the Money Was, maybe?
Love the new logo!
You guys are organized! Unfortunately, I remember 1976 all too well.
I remember 1976 very well also. But I already have plenty of books on my shelves for that year, so no problems rounding a few up. One of my favorite books was published in 1976: KING AND JOKER by Peter Dickinson.
Great, that was the year we got married!
I don’t seem to have a single book from that year on my unread shelves. I should be able to change that given the six months notice though
Ooh, 70s are a tough decade for me! The only one I have on my shelves unread is The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck. As a backup I could read All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriott or The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner. And there’s always Dick Francis mysteries!
I’ve got three on my shelves: Dr Copernicus by John Banville; Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje; and The Communist by Guido Morselli.
That is nice to give us a warning for October. I have a non-fiction book from 1976 on my shelf. Are they allowed?
Looks like it’s finally time to tackle “Roots”!
Okay, then… hm… I have to check to see what 1976 books I have, which is probably none…
YAY! I’m glad I saw this with plenty of time BEFORE it so I can join in!
I am STILL reading my #1936Club read and can only hope to finish by the time the new club is underway. No good excuse…I’ve just fallen hard into various reading projects and Rebecca West wasn’t an ideal match with them, so she keeps settling to the bottom of my current stack. BUT I am super excited by 1976…so many options on my shelves for this year!
This was so much fun, I’ll be back. I have one 1976 on my TBR: Speedboat, by Renata Adler