Books in the Super70s

By Patrick Mondout

Besides being authors, what do Ernest Hemingway, Agatha Christie, Joseph Wambaugh, Graham Greene, and Stephen King have in common? They all had top-10 fiction bestsellers in the Super70s!

We have chosen to feature a few of our favorite books of the Super70s. We will feature more as time permits. You can also view bestseller lists by year from the drop-down list on the left or from here:

Bestsellers by year: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull- A Story

Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker

John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever

Robertson Davies - The Deptford Trilogy

E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime

J.G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur

Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Robert Ludlum - The Matarese Circle

James A. Michener - Centennial

James A. Michener - Chesapeake

Iris Murdoch - The Black Prince

Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer

Erich Segal - Love Story

J. R. R. Tolkien - Silmarillion

Leon Uris - Trinity

Eudora Welty - The Optimist's Daughter

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