1975 Popular Books and Bestsellers

1975 Books & Bestsellers

1975 Fiction Top Ten Books

(according to Publisher’s Weekly)
1. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
2. The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey
3. Curtain by Agatha Christie
4. Looking for Mister Goodbar by Judith Rossner
5. The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh
6. The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
7. The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann by Irving Stone
8. The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
9. Shogun by James Clavell
10. Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow

1975 Non-Fiction Books

1. Angels: God’s Secret Agents by Billy Graham
2. Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer
3. TM: Discovering Energy and Overcoming Stress by Harold H. Bloomfield
4. The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
5. Sylvia Porter’s Money Book by Sylvia Porter
6. Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week by Laurence E. Morehouse and Leonard Gross
7. The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz with J. Manson Valentine
8. The Save-Your-Life Diet by David Reuben
9. Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven
10. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon by Theodore H. White

New York Times Bestsellers

The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
The Palace Guard by Dan Rather and Gary Paul Gates
Breach of Faith by Theodore H. White
Sylvia Porter’s Money Book by Sylvia Porter
Power! by Michael Korda
Bring On the Empty Horses by David Niven
The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson

1975 Notable Literature

A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Sociobiology by E O. Wilson
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
Most Popular Books of 1975, according to GoodReads
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