Best Seller Books
1975
Fiction:
Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
The Moneylenders - Arthur Hailey
Curtain - Agatha Christie
Looking for Mister Goodbar - Judith Rossner
The Choirboys - Joseph Wambaugh
The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
Shogun - James Clavell
Nonfiction
Angels: God's Secret Agents - Billy Graham
Winning through Intimidation - Robert Ringer
TM - Harold H. Bloomfield
The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
Sylvia Porter's Money Book - Sylvia Porter
Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week - Laurence E. Morehouse, Leonard Gross
1976
Fiction
Trinity - Leon Uris
Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
Dolores - Jacqueline Susann
The Deep - Peter Benchley
1876 - Gore Vidal
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Nonfiction
The Final Days - Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
Roots - Alex Haley
Your Erroneous Zones - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Passages - Gail Sheehy
Born Again - Charles W. Colson
The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank - Erma Bombeck
Blind Ambition: The White House Years - John Dean
The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality - Shere Hite
1977
Fiction
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
Illusions - Richard Bach
The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carre
Oliver's Story - Erich Segul
Dreams Die First - Harold Robbins
Beggarman, Thief - Irwin Shaw
How to Save Your Own Life - Erica Jong
Delta of Venus: Erotica - Anais Nin
Daniel Martin - John Fowles
Nonfiction
Roots - Alex Haley
All Things Wise and Wonderful - James Herriot
Your Erroneous Zones - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
The Book of Lists - David Wallechinsky
The Possible Dream: A Candid Look at Amway - Charles Paul Conn
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence - Carl Sagan
The Second Ring of Power - Carlos Castaneda
The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank - Erma Bombeck
The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
1978
Fiction
Chesapeake - James A. Michener
War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
Fools Die - Mario Puzo
Bloodlines - Sidney Sheldon
Scruples - Judith Krantz
Evergreen - Belva Plain
Illusions - Richard Bach
The Holcroft Covenant - Robert Ludlum
Second Generation - Howard Fast
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
Nonfiction
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries - What Am I Doing in the Pits - Erma Bombeck
Gnomes - Wil Huygen, with illustrations by Rien Poortvliet
The Complete Book of Running - James Fixx
Mommie Dearest - Christina Crawford
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon
A Distant Mirror - Barbara W. Tuchman
Faeries - Brian Froud, Alan Lee
In Search of History - Theodore H. White
1979
Fiction
The Matarese Circle - Robert Ludlum
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Overload - Arthur Hailey
Memories of Another Day - Harold Robbins
Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
The Last Enchantment - Howard Fast
The Third World War: August 1985 - Gen. Sir John Hackett et al.
Smiley's People - John le Carre
Nonfiction
Aunt Erma's Cope Book - Erma Bombeck
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet - Herman Tarnower, M.D., Samm Sinclair Baker
How to Prosper during the Coming Bad Years - Howard J. Ruff
Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin
The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise - Nathan Pritikin, Patrick McGrady, Jr.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger
Lauren Bacall by Myself - Lauren Bacall
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court - Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong
Restoring the American Dream - Robert J. Ringer