Bestselling Books

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 […]

1977 Books & Bestsellers 1977 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien 2. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 3. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach 4. The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre 5. Oliver’s Story by Erich Segal 6. Dreams Die First by Harold Robbins 7. Beggarman, Thief by Irwin Shaw 8. How To Save

1976 Books & Bestsellers 1976 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Trinity by Leon Uris 2. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie 3. Dolores by Jacqueline Susann 4. Storm Warning by Jack Higgins 5. The Deep by Peter Benchley 6. 1876 by Gore Vidal 7. Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut 8. The Lonely Lady by Harold Robbins 9. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart 10. A Stranger in the

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

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

1973 Books & Bestsellers 1973 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2. Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann 3. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 4. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 5. Burr by Gore Vidal 6. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart 7. Evening in Byzantium by Irwin Shaw 8. The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum 9. The Billion Dollar Sure

1972 Books & Bestsellers 1972 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2. August, 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5. The Word by Irving Wallace 6. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 7. Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell 8. Two from Galilee by Marjorie Holmes 9. My

1971 Books & Bestsellers 1971 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Wheels by Arthur Hailey 2. The Exorcist by William P. Blatty 3. The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone 4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5. The Betsy by Harold Robbins 6. Message from Malaga by Helen MacInnes 7. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 8. The Drifters by James A. Michener 9. The

1970 Books & Bestsellers 1970 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Love Story by Erich Segal 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles 3. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway 4. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart 5. Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell 6. QB VII by Leon Uris 7. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight by Jimmy Breslin 8. The Secret Woman by Victoria

1969 Books & Bestsellers 1969 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 2. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 3. The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann 4. The Inheritors by Harold Robbins 5. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 6. The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace 7. Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe 8. The Promise by Chaim Potok 9. The Pretenders by Gwen Davis 10. The House