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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 novel by Douglas Adams

The Fountains of Paradise
1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
Kane and Abel
1979 novel by Jeffrey Archer

Smiley's People
1979 novel by John le Carré

Shikasta
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.

My Uncle Oswald
1979 novel by Roald Dahl

A Bend in the River
1979 novel by V. S. Naipaul

Darkness Visible
novel by William Golding

The Devil's Alternative
1979 novel by Frederick Forsyth

Offshore
novel by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Fortune of War
novel by Patrick O'Brian

Company
1979 short novel by Samuel Beckett

Triple
novel by Ken Follett

The Last Enchantment
1979 novel by Mary Stewart