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1972 Books & Bestsellers |
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1972 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2. August, 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5. The Word by Irving Wallace 6. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 7. Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell 8. Two from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes 9. My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 10. Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins |
1972 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Living Bible by Kenneth Taylor 2. I’m O.K. You’re O.K. by Thomas Harris 3. Open Marriage by Nena and George O’Neill 4. Harry S Truman by Margaret Truman 5. Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins 6. Better Homes and Gardens Menu Cook Book by the BH&G Editors 7. The Peter Prescription by Laurence J. Peter 8. A World Beyond by Ruth Montgomery 9. Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda 10. Better Homes and Gardens Low-Calorie Desserts by the BH&G Editors |
1972 Notable Literature |
| Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling The Great Bridge by David McCullough The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam Ways of Seeing by John Berger The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics by Michael Novak The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort |
1972 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| Glory by Vladimir Nabokov The Brass Ring by Bill Mauldin Fortune Made His Sword by Martha Rofheart The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn The Conspiracy by John Hersey The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton The Crown of Mexico by Joan Haslip The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan The Dawn’s Early Light by Walter Lord Only One Earth by Barbara Ward and René Dubos Eleanor by Joseph P. Lash Luce and His Empire by W.A. Swanberg The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen and Eliot Porter The Camerons by Robert Crichton For Those I Loved by Martin Gray with Max Gallo |
| 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1972, according to GoodReads |