1970S BESTSELLERS

1970

FICTION

1. Love Story Erich Segal

2. The French John Fowles

Lieutenant's
Woman

3. Islands in Ernest
the Stream Hemingway

4. The Crystal Mary Stewart

Cave

5. Great Lion Taylor Caldwell

of God

6. QB VII Leon Uris

7. The Gang Jimmy Breslin

That Couldn't
Shoot Straight

8. The Secret Victoria Holt

Woman

9. Travels Graham Greene

with My Aunt

10. Rich Man Irwin Shaw

Poor Man

NONFICTI
ON

1. Everything David Reuben .

You Always M.D.
Wanted To Know
About Sex but
Were Afraid To
Ask
 2. The New
English Bible

3. The "J"
Sensuous Woman

4. Better
Homes and
Gardens Fondue
and Tabletop
Cooking

5. Up the Robert Townsend

Organization

6. Ball Four Jim Bouton

7. American William Morris

Heritage
Dictionary of the
English
Language

8. Body Julius Fast

Language

9. In Rod McKuen
Someone's
Shadow

10. Caught in Rod McKuen

the Quiet

1971

FICTION

1. Wheels Arthur Hailey

2. The William P. Blatty

Exorcist

3. The Irving Stone

Passions of the
Mind

4. The Day of Frederick Forsyth

the Jackal

5. The Betsy Harold Robbins

6. Message Helen MacInnes

from Malaga

7. The Winds Herman Wouk

of War

8. The James A.
Drifters Michener

9. The Other Thomas Tryon

10. Rabbit John Updike

Redux

NONFICTI
ON

1. The "M"
Sensous Man

2. Bury My Dee Brown

Heart at
Wounded Knee

3. Better
Homes and
Gardens Blender
Cook Book

4. I'm O.K. . Thomas Harris

You're O.K

5. Any David Reuben

Woman Can! M.D.

6. Inside the Albert Speer

Third Reich

7. Eleanor Joseph P. Lash

and Franklin

8. Wunnerful Lawrence Welk

Wunnerful!
 9. Honor Thy Gay Talese
Father

10. Fields of Rod McKuen

Wonder

1972

FICTION

1. Jonathan Richard Bach

Livingston
Seagull

2. Alexander
August1914 Solzhenitsyn

3. The Odessa Frederick Forsyth

File

4. The Day of Frederick Forsyth

the Jackal

5. The Word Irving Wallace

6. The Winds Herman Wouk

of War

7. Captains Taylor Caldwell

and the Kings

8. Two from Marjorie Holmes

Galilee

9. My Name Chaim Potok

Is Asher Lev

10. Semi- Dan Jenkins

Tough

NONFICTI
ON

1. The Living Kenneth Taylor

Bible
 2. I'm O.K. Thomas Harris
You're O.K.

3. Open Nena and George

Marriage O'Neill

4. Harry S. Margaret Truman

Truman

5. Dr. Atkins' Robert C. Atkins

Diet Revolution

6. Better
Homes and
Gardens Menu
Cook Book

7. The Peter Laurence J. Peter

Prescription

8. A World Ruth Montgomery

Beyond

9. Journey to Carlos Castaneda

Ixtlan

10. Better
Homes and
Gardens Low-
Calorie Desserts

1973

FICTION

1. Jonathan Richard Bach

Livingston
Seagull

2. Once Is Jacqueline Susann

Not Enough

3. Breakfast Kurt Vonnegut

of Champions

4. The Odessa Frederick Forsyth

File
 5. Burr Gore Vidal

6. The Mary Stewart

Hollow Hills

7. Evening in Irwin Shaw

Byzantium

8. The Robert Ludlum

Matlock Paper

9. The Billion Paul E. Erdman

Dollar Sure
Thing

10. The Graham Greene

Honorary Consul

NONFICTI
ON

1. The Living Kenneth Taylor

Bible

2. Dr. Atkins' Robert C. Atkins

Diet Revolution

3. I'm O.K. Thomas Harris

You're O.K.

4. The Joy of Alex Comfort

Sex

5. Weight Jean Nidetch

Watchers
Program
Cookbook

6. How To Be Mildred Newman et al.

Your Own Best et al.
Friend

7. The Art of Christopher Finch

Walt Disney

8. Better
Homes and
Gardens Home
Canning
Cookbook

9. Alistair Alistair Cooke

Cooke's America

10. Sybil Flora R. Schreiber

1974

FICTION

1. Centennial James A.
Michener

2. Watership Richard Adams

Down

3. Jaws Peter Benchley

4. Tinker John Le Carré

Tailor Soldier
Spy

5. Something Joseph Heller

Happened

6. The Dogs Frederick Forsyth

of War

7. The Pirate Harold J. Robbins

8. I Heard the Margaret Craven

Owl Call My
Name

9. The Seven- John H. Watson

Per-Cent Solution M.D. Nicholas
Meyer editor

10. The Fan Irving Wallace

Club

NONFICTI
ON
 1. The Total Marabel Morgan
Woman

2. All the Carl Bernstein

President's Men and Bob
Woodward

3. Plain Merle Miller

Speaking: An
Oral Biography
of Harry S.
Truman

4. More Joy: Alex Comfort

A Lovemaking
Companion to
The Joy of Sex

5. Alistair Alistair Cooke

Cooke's America

6. Tales of Carlos A.
Power Castaneda

7. You Can Harry Browne

Profit from a
Monetary Crisis

8. All Things James Herriot

Bright and
Beautiful

9. The Charles Berlitz

Bermuda with J. Manson
Triangle Valentine

10. The Harry Lorayne

Memory Book and Jerry Lucas

1975

FICTION

1. Ragtime E. L. Doctorow

2. The Arthur Hailey

Moneychangers
 3. Curtain Agatha Christie

4. Looking Judith Rossner

for Mister
Goodbar

5. The Joseph
Choirboys Wambaugh

6. The Eagle Jack Higgins

Has Landed

7. The Greek Irving Stone

Treasure: A
Biographical
Novel of Henry
and Sophia
Schliemann

8. The Great Michael Crichton

Train Robbery

9. Shogun James Clavell

10. Saul Bellow

Humboldt's Gift

NONFICTI
ON

1. Angels: Billy Graham

God's Secret
Agents

2. Winning Robert Ringer

Through
Intimidation

3. TM: Harold H.
Discovering Bloomfield
Energy and
Overcoming
Stress

4. The Ascent Jacob Bronowski

of Man

5. Sylvia Sylvia Porter

Porter's Money
Book

6. Total Laurence E.
Fitness in 30 Morehouse and
Minutes a Week Leonard Gross

7. The Charles Berlitz

Bermuda with J. Manson
Triangle Valentine

8. The Save- David Reuben

Your-Life Diet

9. Bring on David Niven

the Empty Horses

10. Breach of Theodore H.

Faith: The Fall of White
Richard Nixon

1976

FICTION

1. Trinity Leon Uris

2. Sleeping Agatha Christie

Murder

3. Dolores Jacqueline Susann

4. Storm Jack Higgins

Warning

5. The Deep Peter Benchley

6. 1876 Gore Vidal

7. Slapstick: Kurt Vonnegut

or Lonesome No
More!

8. The Lonely Harold Robbins

Lady

9. Touch Not Mary Stewart

the Cat
 10. A Sidney Sheldon
Stranger in the
Mirror

NONFICTI
ON

1. The Final Bob Woodward

Days and Carl Bernstein

2. Roots Alex Haley

3. Your Dr. Wayne W.

Erroneous Zones Dyer

4. Passages: Gail Sheehy

The Predictable
Crises of Adult
Life

5. Born Again Charles W.

Colson

6. The Grass Erma Bombeck

ls Always
Greener over the
Septic Tank

7. Angels: Billy Graham

God's Secret
Agents

8. Blind John Dean

Ambition: The
White House
Years

9. The Hite Shere Hite

Report: A
Nationwide
Study of Female
Sexuality

10. The Right Leon Jaworski

and the Power:
The Prosecution
of Watergate
1977

FICTION

1. The J.R.R. Tolkien;

Silmarillion Christopher
Tolkien

2. The Thorn Colleen

Birds McCullough

3. Illusions: Richard Bach

The Adventures
of a Reluctant
Messiah

4. The John Le Carré

Honourable
Schoolboy

5. Oliver's Erich Segal

Story

6. Dreams Harold Robbins

Die First

7. Beggarman Irwin Shaw

Thief

8. How To Erica Jong

Save Your Own
Life

9. Delta of Anaïs Nin

Venus: Erotica

10. Daniel John Fowles

Martin

NONFICTI
ON

1. Roots Alex Haley

2. Looking Robert Ringer

Out for #1

3. All Things James Herriot

Wise and
Wonderful

4. Your Dr. Wayne W.

Erroneous Zones Dyer

5. The Book David

of Lists Wallechinsky
Irving Wallace and
Amy Wallace

6. The Charles Paul

Possible Dream: Conn
A Candid Look at
Amway

7. The Carl Sagan

Dragons of Eden:
Speculations on
the Evolution of
Human
Intelligence

8. The Carlos Castaneda

Second Ring of
Power

9. The Grass Erma Bombeck

ls Always
Greener over the
Septic Tank

10. The Jay Anson

Amityville
Horror

1978

FICTION

1. James A.
Chesapeake Michener

2. War and Herman Wouk

Remembrance
 3. Fools Die Mario Puzo

4. Bloodlines Sidney Sheldon

5. Scruples Judith Krantz

6. Evergreen Belva Plain

7. Illusions: Richard Bach

The Adventures
of a Reluctant
Messiah

8. The Robert Ludlum

Holcroft
Covenant

9. Second Howard Fast

Generation

10. Eye of the Ken Follett

Needle

NONFICTI
ON

1. If Life Is a Erma Bombeck

Bowl of
Cherries--What
Am I Doing in
the Pits?

2. Gnomes Wil Huygen and

Rien Poortvliet

3. The James Fixx

Complete Book
of Running

4. Mommie Christina
Dearest Crawford

5. Pulling Dr. Wayne W.

Your Own Dyer
Strings

8. RN: The Richard Nixon

Memoirs of
Richard Nixon

7. A Distant Barbara Tuchman

Mirror: The
Calamitous
Fourteenth
Century

8. Faeries Brian Froud and

Alan Lee

9. ln Search Theodore H.
of History: A White
Personal
Adventure

10. The the Muppet

Muppet Show People
Book

1979

FICTION

1. The Robert Ludlum

Matarese Circle

2. Sophie's William Styron

Choice

3. Overload Arthur Hailey

4. Memories Harold Robbins

of Another Day

5. Jailbird Kurt Vonnegut

6. The Dead Stephen King

Zone

7. The Last Mary Stewart

Enchantment

8. The Howard Fast

Establishment

9. The Third Gen. Sir John

World War: Hackett et al.
August 1985

10. Smiley's John Le Carré

People

NONFICTI
ON

1. Aunt Erma Bombeck

Erma's Cope
Book

2. The Herman Tarnower

Complete M.D. and Samm
Scarsdale Sinclair Baker
Medical Diet

3. How to Howard J. Ruff

Prosper During
the Coming Bad
Years

4. Cruel Steve Martin

Shoes

5. The Nathan Pritikin

Pritikin Program and Patrick
for Diet and McGrady Jr.
Exercise

6. White Henry Kissinger

House Years

7. Lauren Lauren Bacall

Bacall By Myself

8. The Bob Woodward

Brethren: Inside and Scott
the Supreme Armstrong
Court

9. Restoring Robert J. Ringer

the American
Dream

10. The Charles Paul

Winner's Circle Conn