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1971 Books & Bestsellers |
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1971 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Wheels by Arthur Hailey 2. The Exorcist by William P. Blatty 3. The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5. The Betsy by Harold Robbins 6. Message from Malaga by Helen MacInnes 7. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 8. The Drifters by James A. Michener 9. The Other by Thomas Tryon 10. Rabbit Redux by John Updike |
1971 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Sensuous Man by “M” (Joan Garrity, John Garrity and Len Forman) 2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 3. Better Homes and Gardens Blender Cook Book by the BH&G Editors 4. I’m O.K. You’re O.K. by Thomas Harris 5. Any Woman Can! by David Reuben 6. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer 7. Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash 8. Wunnerful, Wunnerful! by Lawrence Welk 9. Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese 10. Fields of Wonder by Rod McKuen |
1971 Notable Literature |
| Insect Societies by E.O. Wilson Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner The Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci Blindness and Insight by Paul de Man Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner A Theory of Justice by John Rawls In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich The Pentagon Papers (aka Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force) commissioned by Robert McNamara |
1971 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The New Centurions by Joseph Wambaugh Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchman Khrushchev Remembers by Nikita Khrushchev The Merry Month of May by James Jones The European Discovery of America by Samuel Eliot Morison The White Dawn by James Houston The Drifters by James A. Michener Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark Frank Capra: The Name Above the Title by Frank Capra The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth The Condor Passes by Shirley Ann Grau The San Francisco Earthquake by Gorden Thomas and Max Morgan Witts Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, vol. 2 by Ralph G. Martin Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Vantage Point by Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1971, according to GoodReads |