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1973 Books & Bestsellers |
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1973 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2. Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann 3. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 4. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 5. Burr by Gore Vidal 6. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart 7. Evening in Byzantium by Irwin Shaw 8. The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum 9. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman 10. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene |
1973 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Living Bible by Kenneth Taylor 2. Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins 3. I’m O.K. You’re O.K. by Thomas Harris 4. The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort 5. Weight Watchers Program Cookbook by Jean Nidetch 6. How To Be Your Own Best Friend by Mildred Newman et al. 7. The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch 8. Better Homes and Gardens Home Canning Cookbook by the BH&G Editors 9. Alistair Cooke’s America by Alistair Cooke 10. Sybil by Flora R. Schreiber |
1973 Notable Literature |
| The Coming of Postindustrial Society by Daniel Bell The Princess Bride by William Goldman Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz Legimitation Crisis by Jürgen Habermas Metahistory by Hayden White Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene D. Genovese The Gulag Archipelago (written 1958-1968) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Economic Analysis of Law by Richard A. Posner |
1973 Book of the Month Club Selections |
| The Making of a Psychiatrist by David S. Viscott Harry S Truman by Margaret Truman The Taking of Pelham, One Two Three by John Godey American Mischief by Alan Lelchuk The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by Robert Payne Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll My Young Years by Arthur Rubenstein The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstein Food in History by Reay Tannahill Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer The Salamander by Morris West The First Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene Burr by Gore Vidal A Different Woman by Jane Howard |
| 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1973, according to GoodReads |