Books of 1979

By Patrick Mondout

Here's the lists of the top ten bestsellers of 1979:

1979 Fiction Bestsellers
1	The Matarese Circle	Robert Ludlum
2	Sophie's Choice	William Styron
3	Overload	Arthur Hailey
4	Memories of Another Day	Harold Robbins
5	Jailbird	Kurt Vonnegut
6	The Dead Zone	Stephen King
7	The Last Enchantment	Mary Stewart
8	The Establishment	Howard Fast
9	The Third World War: August 1985	John Hackett
10	Smiley's People	John Le Carré
	Source: Publisher's Weekly

1979 Non-Fiction Bestsellers
1	Aunt Erma's Cope Book	Erma Bombeck
2	The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet	Herman Tarnower, M.D., and Samm Sinclair Baker
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 and Patrick McGrady Jr
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
	Source: Publisher's Weekly