1978 Best Selling Books, Novels and Notable Literature

1978 Books & Bestsellers
1978 Fiction Top Ten Books
(according to Publisher's Weekly) 1. Chesapeake by James A. Michener 2. War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk 3. Fools Die by Mario Puzo 4. Bloodlines by Sidney Sheldon 5. Scruples by Judith Krantz 6. Evergreen by Belva Plain 7. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach 8. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum 9. Second Generation by Howard Fast 10. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
1978 Non-Fiction Books
1. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck 2. Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet 3. The Complete Book of Running by James Fixx 4. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford 5. Pulling Your Own Strings by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 8. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon 7. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman 8. Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee 9. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White 10. The Muppet Show Book by The Muppet People
New York Times Bestsellers
The Complete Book of Running by James Fixx The Ends of Power by H. R. Haldeman and Joseph DiMona If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
1978 Notable Literature
Reproduction of Mothering by Nancy Chodorow The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Orientalism by Edward Said Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin The Declining Significance of Race by William Julius Wilson Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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