A Century of Books VIII
By the Decade: 1970-1979

Most titles will be found in the fiction section, under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

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1970:

Future Shock, Alvin Toffler  303.4 TOF

The Greening of America: How the Youth Revolution is Trying to Make America Livable,
Charles A. Reich  303.484 REI

Company: A Musical Comedy, Stephen Sondheim  782.140268 SON

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West,
Dee Alexander Brown  970.00497 BRO

Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man, Garry Wills  973.924092 WIL

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou  B ANGELOU

Deliverance, James Dickey

Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion

The Anderson Tapes, Lawrence Sanders

Rich Man, Poor Man, Irwin Shaw

1971:

Beyond Freedom & Dignity, B. F. Skinner  150.19434 SKI

“Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”
Erma Bombeck  818.54 BOM

The Pentagon Papers as Published by the New York Times,  959.704 PEN

The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty

The Book of Daniel, E. L. Doctorow

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines

Grendel, John Gardner

Penmarric, Susan Howatch

Shroud for a Nightingale, P. D. James

Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro

Angle of Repose, Wallace Earle Stegner

The Winds of War, Herman Wouk

1972:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Hunter S. Thompson  070.92 THO

All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot  636.089 HER

Watership Down, Richard Adams

Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo A. Anaya

The Manticore, Robertson Davies

The Hessian, Howard Fast

The Osterman Weekend, Robert Ludlum

The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty

1973:

Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered,
E. F. Schumacher  330 SCH

The Onion Field, Joseph Wambaugh  364.1523 WAM

I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Craven

Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman

Fear of Flying, Erica Jong

1974:

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard  508.755 DIL

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values,
Robert M. Pirsig  917.3 PIR

Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Angela Yvonne Davis  B DAVIS

Jaws, Peter Benchley

The Bastard, John Jakes

Carrie, Stephen King

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré

Sweet Savage Love, Rosemary Rogers

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

1975:

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, Paul Theroux  915.04 THE

Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow

Where Are the Children?, Mary Higgins Clark

Shogun: A Novel of Japan, James Clavell

Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow

Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry

1976:

Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston  299.783 JOH

The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter  813.54 CAR

Roots, Alex Haley  929.2 HAL

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Jeffrey Archer

The Deep, Peter Benchley

The Great Santini, Pat Conroy

Raise the Titanic!, Clive Cussler

Ordinary People, Judith Guest

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Norman Maclean

Promised Land, Robert B. Parker

Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice

Heartbreak Hotel, Anne Rivers Siddons

1977:

In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin  918.27046 CHA

The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks

The Women’s Room, Marilyn French

The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough

1978:

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, M. Scott Peck  158.1 PEC

American Caesar, William Raymond Manchester  B MACARTHUR

A Stranger is Watching, Mary Higgins Clark

Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett

The World According to Garp, John Irving

Compromising Positions, Susan Isaacs

Tales of the City, Amistead Maupin

The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch

Going After Cacciato, Tim O’Brien

The Family, David Plante

1979:

The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe  629.4 WOL

The White Album, Joan Didion  814.54 DID

The Elephant Man: A Play, Bernard Pomerance  822.914 POM

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews

The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery, Lawrence Block

A Woman of Substance, Barbara Taylor Bradford

Kindred, Octavia E. Butler

Sally Hemings, Barbara Chase-Riboud

Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald

Whip Hand, Dick Francis

The Drowning Season, Alice Hoffman

The Rosary Murders, William X. Kienzle

The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer

Sophie’s Choice, William Styron

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