Big Books of 2026
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1979


1979 Books

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Neverending Story
The Dead Zone
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
The Long Walk
Sophie’s Choice
The Executioner's Song
Ghost Story
Suttree
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Kindred
The White Album
The Fountains of Paradise
Jailbird
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Lists

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
89 books — 47 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
142 books — 18 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
156 books — 63 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanRingworld by Larry NivenRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Classic Science Fiction - 1970-1979
273 books — 247 voters

Listen for the Fig Tree by Sharon Bell MathisLudell by Brenda WilkinsonLudell and Willie by Brenda WilkinsonTeacup Full of Roses by Sharon Bell MathisA Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
Young Adult Books Published by African-Americans in Decade: 1970s
5 books — 1 voter
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPoecabulary by Francis DiClementeAlive by Piers Paul ReadThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
249 books — 19 voters

Quotes Tagged “1979”

R.J. Intindola
“ Some of my greatest sense of accomplishments is making something happen when I’ve been told “it will never happen. ”
― R.J. Intindola, Rising From the Bottom
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Michael Lewis
“ Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer. ”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
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