Ubik

•  The Left Hand of Darkness

  The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1969. The book is one of the first major works of feminist science fiction and is one in a series of books by Le Guin all set in the fictional Hainish universe. It won the 1969 Nebula and 1970 Hugo awards. Plans for a feature film and video game based on the books were announced by Phobos Entertainment Holdings in 2004, but appear to have since stalled.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  The Godfather (novel)

  The Godfather is a crime novel written by American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City (and Long Beach, NY) and headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

  

  0.0%
  

  66.7%
  

  33.3%
  
•  The Andromeda Strain

  The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity, mostly ended in suicide or murder-suicide. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times’ Bestseller list, thus establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Bored of the Rings

  Bored of the Rings is the title of a paperback parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This short novel was written by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney. It was published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon. The parody generally follows the outline of The Lord of the Rings, including the preface, the prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of what Tolkien made serious (e.g. , "He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.

  

  57.1%
  

  14.3%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Sounder

  Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education. Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Creatures of Light and Darkness

  Creatures of Light and Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny. It is currently out of print, and a reprint promised for the end of 2006 has not appeared. It has been reprinted so many times that a given copy has accumulated numerous typographical errors, due to re-keyboarding the entire text at each printing, with minimal proofreading and no editing. It shares this property with paperback reprints of the original Dune novel.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Slaughterhouse-Five

  Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim.

  

  0.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  75.0%
  
•  Portnoy's Complaint

  Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roth's most popular novel. Many of its characteristics (comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) went on to become Roth trademarks. Time included this novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".

  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Travels with My Aunt

  Travels with My Aunt (1969) is a novel written by English author Graham Greene. The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further afield. Aunt Augusta pulls Henry away from his quiet suburban existence into a world of adventure, crime and the highly-unconventional details of her past.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  The French Lieutenant's Woman

  The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), by John Fowles, is a period novel inspired by the 1823 novel Ourika, by Claire de Duras, which Fowles translated to English during 1977 (and revised in 1994). He was a great aficionado of Thomas Hardy, and, in particular, likened his heroine, Sarah Woodruff, to Tess Durbeyfield, the protagonist of Hardy’s popular novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

• 1969 novels by likeorhate
• Dystopian novels by likeorhate
• Existentialist works by likeorhate
• Novels by Philip K. Dick by likeorhate
• Postmodern literature by likeorhate
• Science fiction novels by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  Richard Jebb

  Richard Jebb (1874–25 June 1953) was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. He was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb. He went to school at Marlborough College followed by New College, Oxford. During the First World War, Jebb was a captain in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, spending most of the war in England, serving as an instructor.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  
•  Montgomery Independent School District

  Montgomery Independent School District is a public school district based in Montgomery, Texas.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Herrauðr

  Herrauðr, Herraud, Herröðr, Herruðr, Herrud, Herothus or Heroth is a legendary earl of Götaland or king of Sweden, who appears in several medieval legends, in particular those relating to Ragnar Lodbrok. He also has a saga of his own in Bósi and Herrauðr's saga. His main role in the sagas is as the father of Þóra Town-Hart who gave his daughter one or two small lindworms which grew so big that he had to promise her to the man who could slay the serpent(s).

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  State Route 183 (California)

  

  39.1%
  

  30.4%
  

  30.4%
  
•  Ermenkov, Evgenij

  

  37.5%
  

  40.6%
  

  21.9%