1974 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1974 Books & Bestsellers

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
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