1972


Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
The Stepford Wives
The Farthest Shore
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
The Halloween Tree
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
The Optimist's Daughter
Invisible Cities
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
The Word for World Is Forest
The Gods Themselves
Surfacing
The Odessa File (Odessa #1)
Augustus
Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot, #42)
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksBurn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaFor What It's Worth by Janet TashjianLove and Haight by Susan  CarltonDreams of Significant Girls by Cristina García
YA Fiction set in the 1970s
95 books — 50 voters
The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienWatership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Grey King by Susan CooperGreenwitch by Susan Cooper
Children's Fantasy of the 1970s
160 books — 66 voters

When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiRevolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang CompestineViolet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette HaworthMeet Julie by Megan McDonald
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1970s
141 books — 24 voters
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienDragonsong by Anne McCaffreyThe Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Best Fantasy of the 70s
145 books — 310 voters

Joseph Campbell
The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, with the expectation of a spontaneous remission—which, however, does not always follow. Yoga, too, is intentional schizophrenia: one breaks away from the world, plunging inward, and the ranges of vision experienced are in fact the same as those of a psychosis. But what, then, is the difference? What is the difference between a psychotic or LSD experience and a yogic, or a mys ...more
Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

Frank A. Wood
If history is like the falling tree in the forest? If nobody remembers, did it still happen?
Frank A. Wood, Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972: A 1972 Vietnam War Destroyer Gunline Memoir of a Fire Control Technician

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