Book Meme, Pre-1984 Version (You've Been Warned)

Time to procrastinate with a bloody book-meme. Feel free to skip ahead to the next entry on your list. For the record, this was yoinked from coffeeandink, on whose journal I've been lurking for a week or three.

Apparently the list is from David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, which was released in 1984 or thereabouts, thus explaining the preponderance of relatively Ancient Books. ( Read on, Mac! Read on! )

It's a Mystery or, "I Swear, Your Honour, I Haven't Killed a Thing!"

Possibly also known as the "too much information department." ( Cut for those who would prefer to avoid the gory details. )