1975


’Salem’s Lot
Ragtime
Tuck Everlasting
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
Where Are the Children? (Where Are the Children, #1)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Rumble Fish
Factotum
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Sign of the Unicorn (The Chronicles of Amber, #3)
Danny the Champion of the World
High-Rise
Terms of Endearment
Shōgun by James Clavell’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  KingTerms of Endearment by Larry McMurtryRagtime by E.L. DoctorowLooking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner
Best Books 1975
255 books — 72 voters

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienA Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'EngleAlan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel PinkwaterMatthew Looney in the Outback by Jerome Beatty Jr.
Children's Science Fiction of the 1970s
147 books — 21 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

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanAlive by Piers Paul ReadAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
252 books — 19 voters
Bella Santini in the Land of Everlasting Change by Angela LeghThe 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 Cooper
Children's Fantasy of the 1970s
157 books — 88 voters

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On the great Belomor Canal even an automobile was a rarity. Everything was created, as they say in camp, with 'fart power'. ...more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

Michel Foucault
« Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; qu'il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées » ...more
FOUCAULT MICHEL

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