Reading in the 1970s
1876. Gore Vidal
All The President’s Men. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
American Buffalo. David Mamet
Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Judy Blume
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Ernest Gaines
The Best and the Brightest. David Halberstam
The Betsy. Harold Robbins
Bloodline. Sidney Sheldon
The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
The Book of Daniel. E.L. Doctorow
Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Bridge to Terabithia. Katherine Paterson
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Dee Brown
Captains and the Kings. Taylor Caldwell
Carrie. Stephen King
Centennial. James A. Michener
The Chocolate War. Robert Cormier
The Choirboys. Joseph Wambaugh
The Day of the Jackal. Frederick Forsyth
Delta of Venus. Anais Nin
The Eagle Has Landed. Jack Higgins
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Paul Zindel
The Exorcist. William P. Blatty
Eye of the Needle. Ken Follett
The Face of Battle. James Keegan
Fear of Flying. Erica Jong
Frog and Toad are Friends. Arnold Lobel
The Great Railway Bazaar. Paul Theroux
The Great Santini. Pat Conroy
I Heard the Owl Call My Name. Margaret Craven
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou
If Beale Street Could Talk. James Baldwin
I’m O.K., You’re O.K. Thomas Harris
Inside the Third Reich. Albert Speer
Jaws. Peter Benchley
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard Bach
Julie of the Wolves. Jean George
Looking for Mister Goodbar. Judith Rossner
Love in the Ruins. Walker Percy
Love Story. Erich Segal
The Matlock Paper. Robert Ludlum
The New Centurians. Joseph Wambaugh
Night Chills. Dean Koontz
Once is Not Enough. Jacqueline Susann
The Optimist’s Daughter. Eudora Welty
Ordinary People. Judith Guest
The Persian Boy. Mary Renault
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard
The Planet of Junior Brown. Virginia Hamilton
QB VII. Leon Uris
Ragtime. E.L. Doctorow
Rich Man, Poor Man. Irwin Shaw
The Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe
Roll, Jordan, Roll. Eugene Genovese
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Mildred Taylor
Roots. Alex Haley
Scruples. Judith Krantz
Shogun. James Clavell
Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison
Sophie’s Choice. William Styron
The Stepford Wives. Ira Levin
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. William Steig
The Thorn Birds. Colleen McCullough
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. John Le Carre
Watership Down. Richard Adams
The Westing Game. Ellen Raskin
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears. Verna Aardema
The Winds of War. Herman Wouk
The World According to Garp. John Irving
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Robert M. Pirsig