Yep, a fun idea...

Cool idea, Mom! Here are my book related entries for 1984:

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction: Ironweed by William Kennedy

Nobel Prize for Literature: Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)

Books: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner and Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

I'm going to add Ironweed and the books of note to my reading list. As for Seifert, I'm going to look up some of his poetry online. Here's something I found already (from "Dance of Girls Chemises"):

Love,

which we inhale and feed on,

disenchanted,

love that our dreams are keyed on,

love,

that dogs our rise and fall:

nothing

yet the sum of all.

An aside: the album of the year, "Thriller," may explain some things...

Thanks for the suggestion Mom! Can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!