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The Super Seventies Bookstore

elcome to the Super Seventies Bookstore, where you can reexperience many of those fine Seventies literary classics. Here you'll find the Top 10 bestsellers in both the fiction and non-fiction categories for each year from 1970 through 1979. Rankings are according to Publishers Weekly and are based on publishers' reports of copies shipped and billed, not merely on net sales figures.

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• Other Bestselling (Or Just Essential) Seventies/Retro Books

Fiction

Love Story, Erich Segal The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart Great Lion of God, Taylor Caldwell QB VII, Leon Uris The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Jimmy Breslin The Secret Woman, Victoria Holt Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene Rich Man, Poor Man, Irwin Shaw

Non-Fiction

1. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex but Were Afraid To Ask, David Reuben, M.D.
2. The New English Bible
3. The Sensuous Woman, "J"
4. Better Homes and Gardens Fondue and Tabletop Cooking
5. Up the Organization, Robert Townsend
6. Ball Four, Jim Bouton
7. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, William Morris
8. Body Language, Julius Fast
9. In Someone's Shadow, Rod McKuen
10. Caught in the Quiet, Rod McKuen

Fiction

Wheels, Arthur Hailey The Exorcist, William P. Blatty The Passions of the Mind, Irving Stone The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth The Betsy, Harold Robbins Message from Malaga, Helen MacInnes The Winds of War, Herman Wouk The Drifters, James A. Michener The Other, Thomas Tryon Rabbit Redux, John Updike

Non-Fiction

1. The Sensuous Man, "M"
2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
3. Better Homes and Gardens Blender Cook Book
4. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
5. Any Woman Can!, David Reuben, M.D.
6. Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer
7. Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash
8. Wunnerful, Wunnerful!, Lawrence Welk
9. Honor Thy Father, Gay Talese
10. Fields of Wonder, Rod McKuen

Fiction

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach August, 1914, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth The Word: A Novel, Irving Wallace The Winds of War, Herman Wouk Captains and the Kings, Taylor Caldwell Two from Galilee, Marjorie Holmes My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok Semi-Tough, Dan Jenkins

Non-Fiction

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor
2. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
3. Open Marriage, Nena and George O'Neill
4. Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman
5. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins
6. Better Homes and Gardens Menu Cook Book
7. The Peter Prescription, Laurence J. Peter
8. A World Beyond, Ruth Montgomery
9. Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda
10. Better Homes and Gardens Low-Calorie Desserts

Fiction

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach Once Is Not Enough, Jacqueline Susann Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth Burr: A Novel, Gore Vidal The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart Evening in Byzantium, Irwin Shaw The Matlock Paper, Robert Ludlum The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, Paul E. Erdman The Honorary Consul: A Novel, Graham Greene

Non-Fiction

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor
2. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins
3. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
4. The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
5. Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Jean Nidetch
6. How To Be Your Own Best Friend, Mildred Newman, et al.
7. The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch
8. Better Homes and Gardens Home Canning Cookbook
9. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistar Cooke
10. Sybil, Flora R. Schreiber

Fiction

Centennial, James A. Michener Watership Down, Richard Adams Jaws, Peter Benchley Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carre Something Happened, Joseph Heller The Dogs of War, Frederick Forsyth The Pirate, Harold J. Robbins I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Craven The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, John H. Watson, M.D. The Fan Club, Irving Wallace

Non-Fiction

1. The Total Woman, Marabel Morgan
2. All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
3. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
4. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry Truman, Merle Miller
5. More Joy: A Companion to The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
6. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistar Cooke
7. Tales of Power, Carlos A. Castaneda
8. You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, James Herriot
9. The Bermuda Triangle, Charles Berlitz with J.M. Valentine
10. The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas

Fiction

Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow The Moneychangers, Arthur Hailey Curtain, Agatha Christie Looking for Mister Goodbar, Judith Rossner The Choirboys, Joseph Wambaugh The Eagle Has Landed, Jack Higgins The Greek Treasure, Irving Stone The Great Train Robbery, Michael Crichton Shogun, James Clavell Humbolt's Gift, Saul Bellow

Non-Fiction

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

Fiction

Trinity, Leon Uris Sleeping Murder, Agatha Christie Delores, Jacqueline Susann Storm Warning, Jack Higgins The Deep, Peter Benchley 1876, Gore Vidal Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More!, Kurt Vonnegut The Lonely Lady, Harold Robbins Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart A Stranger in the Mirror, Sidney Sheldon

Non-Fiction

1. The Final Days, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
2. Roots, Alex Haley
3. Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne H. Dyer
4. Passages: The Predictable Crisis of Adult Life, Gail Sheehy
5. Born Again, Charles W. Colson
6. The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck
7. Angels: God's Secret Agents, Billy Graham
8. Blind Ambition: The White House Years, John Dean
9. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, Shere Hite
10. The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate, Leon Jaworksi

Fiction

The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkein; Christopher Tolkein The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carre Oliver's Story, Erich Segal Dreams Die First, Harold Robbins Beggerman, Thief, Irwin Shaw How To Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong Delta of Venus: Erotica, Anais Nin Daniel Martin, John Fowles

Non-Fiction

1. Roots, Alex Haley
2. Looking Out for #1, Robert Ringer
3. All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot
4. Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne H. Dyer
5. The Book of Lists, David Wallechinsky, Irving and Amy Wallace
6. The Possible Dream: A Candid Look at Amway, Charles Paul Conn
7. The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
8. The Second Ring of Power, Carlos Castaneda
9. The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck
10. The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson

Fiction

Chesapeake, James A. Michener War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk Fools Die, Mario Puzo Bloodline, Sidney Sheldon Scruples, Judith Krantz Evergreen, Belva Plain Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach The Holcroft Covenant, Robert Ludlum Second Generation, Howard Fast Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett

Non-Fiction

1. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -- What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Erma Bombeck
2. Gnomes, Wil Huygen and Rien Pootvliet
3. The Complete Book of Running, James Fixx
4. Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford
5. Pulling Your Own Strings, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
6. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon
7. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman
8. Faeries, Brian Froud and Alan Lee
9. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Theodore H. White
10. The Muppet Show Book, Tudor Banus, Jim Henson

Fiction

The Matarese Circle, Robert Ludlum Sophie's Choice, William Styron Overload, Arthur Hailey Memories of Another Day, Harold Robbins Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut The Dead Zone, Stephen King The Last Enchantment, Mary Stewart Establishment, Howard Melvin Fast The Third World War: August 1985, Gen. Sir John Hackett, et al. Smiley's People, John Le Carre

Non-Fiction

1. Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Erma Bombeck
2. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Herman Tarnower, M.D.
3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff
4. Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin
5. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Nathan Pritikin
6. White House Years, Henry Kissinger
7. Lauren Bacall By Myself, Lauren Bacall
8. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
9. Restoring the American Dream, Robert J. Ringer
10. The Winner's Circle, Charles Paul Conn

Other Bestselling (Or Just Essential) Seventies/Retro Books:

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell ...And Ladies of the Club, Helen Hooven Santmyer The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton The Autobiography of Howard Hughes, Clifford Irving Be Here Now, Ram Dass The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins Carrie, Stephen King The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Chances, Jackie Collins The Chez Panisse Cookbook, Alice Waters The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess Coma, Robin Cook Cosmos, Carl Sagan The Covenant, James Michener Deliverance, James Dickey Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller Dune, Frank Herbert The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe Fatherhood, Bill Cosby Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Fear of Flying, Erica Jong The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer The Firm, John Grisham Flowers In the Attic, V.C. Andrews Forever..., Judy Blume Go Ask Alice, Anonymous The Godfather, Mario Puzo Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, Philip Roth The Greening of America, Charles A. Reich The Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi Hollywood Wives, Jackie Collins I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres Iacocca: An Autobiography, Lee Iacocca In Cold Blood, Truman Capote In Search of Excellence, Thomas Peters, et al. Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice It, Stephen King The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Var. Authors Less Than Zero, Brett Easton Ellis The Love Machine, Jacqueline Susann The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M. Auel The Man, Irving Wallace Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, Henson Associates Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis Myron, Gore Vidal Noble House: A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong, James Clavell Patriot Games, Tom Clancy The Pelican Brief, John Grisham The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up, Dan Kiley Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth Power!: How to Get It, How to Use It, Michael Korda The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow Princess Daisy, Judith Krantz Prize, Irving Wallace Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, Bruce Feirstein, Lee Lorenz Report From Engine Co. 82, Dennis Smith The Road Not Taken, M. Scott Peck Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie The Shining, Stephen King The Stand, Stephen King Star, Danielle Steel The Sterile Cuckoo, John Treadwell Nichols Success, Michael Korda Summer of '42, Herman Raucher The Talisman, Stephen King The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda Time Flies, Bill Cosby The Tommyknockers, Stephen King The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera Vanna Speaks!, Vanna White Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann What Really Happened to the Class of '65, D. Wallechinsky Working, Studs Terkel The World According to Garp, John Irving

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