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1974 Books & Bestsellers |
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1974 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Centennial by James A. Michener 2. Watership Down by Richard Adams 3. Jaws by Peter Benchley 4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré 5. Something Happened by Joseph Heller 6. The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth 7. The Pirate by Harold J. Robbins 8. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven 9. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by John H. Watson 10. The Fan Club by Irving Wallace |
1974 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. The Total Woman by Marabel Morgan 2. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward 3. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller 4. More Joy: A Lovemaking Companion to The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort 5. Alistair Cooke’s America by Alistair Cooke 6. Tales of Power by Carlos A. Castaneda 7. You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis by Harry Browne 8. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot 9. The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz with J. Manson Valentine 10. The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas |
New York Times Bestsellers |
| Plain Speaking by Merle Miller You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis by Harry Browne Times to Remember by Rose Kennedy All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot |
1974 Notable Literature |
| The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote Working by Studs Terkel Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Modern World-System, vol. 1 by Immanuel Wallerstein All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein |
| 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1974, according to GoodReads |