1978


The Stand
The World According to Garp
The Westing Game
Night Shift
Eye of the Needle
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
The Sea, the Sea
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School, #1)
The Enormous Crocodile
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Rue des boutiques obscures
Women
The Human Factor
Chesapeake
The Cement Garden
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette GreeneIt's OK If You Don't Love Me by Norma KleinSunshine by Norma KleinMy First Love and Other Disasters by Francine PascalA Striving After Wind by Norma Johnston
Teen Romance of the 1970s
52 books — 19 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
142 books — 25 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 PinkwaterEnchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl
Children's Science Fiction of the 1970s
146 books — 25 voters
The Stand by Stephen  KingThe World According to Garp by John IrvingEye of the Needle by Ken FollettWar and Remembrance by Herman WoukNight Shift by Stephen  King
Best Books 1978
235 books — 62 voters

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeThat Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. HintonDeenie by Judy BlumeForever... by Judy BlumeThen Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
1970's Young Adult Standalones
253 books — 37 voters
Sleeping Murder by Agatha ChristieElephants Can Remember by Agatha ChristieA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
Best Mysteries from the 1970s
254 books — 90 voters

George Sheehan
“ So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age. ”
― Dr. George Sheehan

José Ramos-Horta
“ As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, which ended Pol Pot's regime, and Tanzania's invasion of Uganda in 1979, to oust Idi Amin. In both cases, those countries acted without U.N. or international approval—and in both cases they were right to do so. ...more ”
― Jose Ramos-Horta, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

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