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1979 Books & Bestsellers |
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1979 Fiction Top Ten Books |
| (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum 2. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 3. Overload by Arthur Hailey 4. Memories of Another Day by Harold Robbins 5. Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut 6. The Dead Zone by Stephen King 7. The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart 8. The Establishment by Howard Fast 9. The Third World War: August 1985 by Gen. Sir John Hackett et al. 10. Smiley’s People by John Le Carré |
1979 Non-Fiction Books |
| 1. Aunt Erma’s Cope Book by Erma Bombeck 2. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker 3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years by Howard J. Ruff 4. Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin 5. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritikin and Patrick McGrady Jr 6. White House Years by Henry Kissinger 7. Lauren Bacall By Myself by Lauren Bacall 8. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong 9. Restoring the American Dream by Robert J. Ringer 10. The Winner’s Circle by Charles Paul Conn |
1979 New York Times Bestsellers |
| Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet Lauren Bacall by Myself by Lauren Bacall The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin Aunt Erma’s Cope Book by Erma Bombeck The Brethren by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong |
1979 Notable Literature |
| A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Sophie’s Choice by William Styron Theory of International Politics by Kenneth Waltz Practical Ethics by Peter Singer States and Social Revolutions by Theda Skocpol |
| 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature Most Popular Books of 1979, according to GoodReads |