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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,957 books — 1,886 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
140 books — 309 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
264 books — 247 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
252 books — 86 voters

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
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittA Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'EngleThe Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperGreenwitch by Susan Cooper
Children's Fantasy of the 1970s
156 books — 62 voters

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
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

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
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

Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Time by Jane Louise CurryA String in the Harp by Nancy BondAll in Good Time by Edward OrmondroydIn the Keep of Time by Margaret J. AndersonRobinsheugh by Eileen Dunlop
Children's Time Travel Fiction of the 1970s
130 books — 20 voters
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

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
Gough Whitlam by John FaulknerThe Whitlam Mob by Mungo MacCallumThe Whitlam Government 1972-1975 by Gough WhitlamThe Wit of Whitlam by James CarletonThe wit of Whitlam by Deane Wells
Whitlam
7 books — 2 voters

Hey, Diddle, Diddle! Nursery Rhymes by Hilda BoswellCakes and Custard by Brian AldersonDean's Gift Book of Nursery Rhymes Old and New by Janet Grahame-JohnstoneHumpty Dumpty's Favourite Nursery Rhymes by Dawn CopeTime for a Rhyme by Lucy Kincaid
Nursery Rhyme Collections of the 1970s
26 books — 2 voters
Dan Flavin by Stefan NeunerJames Turrell by Michael GovanMiro by Gisela FischerNotes toward a Conditional Art by Robert IrwinThis is Pollock by Catherine Ingram
"I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It"
6 books — 1 voter

Ark of bones and other stories by Henry DumasGorilla, My Love by Toni Cade BambaraElbow Room by James Alan McPhersonMiss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann PetryYou Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
Short Story Collections by African-Americans Published in Decade: 1970s
11 books — 1 voter
The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. WoodiwissThe Enchanted Land by Jude DeverauxCaptive Bride by Johanna LindseyA Pirate's Love by Johanna LindseyThe Kadin by Bertrice Small
Romance: Novels Published in the ‘70s
45 books — 1 voter

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