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elcome to the Super Seventies Bookstore, where you can reexperience many of those fine Seventies literary classics. Here you'll find the Top 10 bestsellers in both the fiction and non-fiction categories for each year from 1970 through 1979. Rankings are according to Publishers Weekly and are based on publishers' reports of copies shipped and billed, not merely on net sales figures.

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• Other Bestselling (Or Just Essential) Seventies/Retro Books

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex but Were Afraid To Ask, David Reuben, M.D.
2. The New English Bible
3. The Sensuous Woman, "J"
4. Better Homes and Gardens Fondue and Tabletop Cooking
5. Up the Organization, Robert Townsend
6. Ball Four, Jim Bouton
7. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, William Morris
8. Body Language, Julius Fast
9. In Someone's Shadow, Rod McKuen
10. Caught in the Quiet, Rod McKuen

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. The Sensuous Man, "M"
2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
3. Better Homes and Gardens Blender Cook Book
4. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
5. Any Woman Can!, David Reuben, M.D.
6. Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer
7. Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash
8. Wunnerful, Wunnerful!, Lawrence Welk
9. Honor Thy Father, Gay Talese
10. Fields of Wonder, Rod McKuen

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor
2. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
3. Open Marriage, Nena and George O'Neill
4. Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman
5. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins
6. Better Homes and Gardens Menu Cook Book
7. The Peter Prescription, Laurence J. Peter
8. A World Beyond, Ruth Montgomery
9. Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda
10. Better Homes and Gardens Low-Calorie Desserts

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. The Living Bible, Kenneth Taylor
2. Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins
3. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
4. The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
5. Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Jean Nidetch
6. How To Be Your Own Best Friend, Mildred Newman, et al.
7. The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch
8. Better Homes and Gardens Home Canning Cookbook
9. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistar Cooke
10. Sybil, Flora R. Schreiber

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. The Total Woman, Marabel Morgan
2. All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
3. I'm OK, You're OK, Thomas Harris
4. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry Truman, Merle Miller
5. More Joy: A Companion to The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
6. Alistair Cooke's America, Alistar Cooke
7. Tales of Power, Carlos A. Castaneda
8. You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, James Herriot
9. The Bermuda Triangle, Charles Berlitz with J.M. Valentine
10. The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. Angels: God's Secret Agents, Billy Graham
2. Winning Through Intimidation, Robert Ringer
3. TM: Discovering Energy and Overcoming Stress, H.H. Bloomfield
4. The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski
5. Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Sylvia Porter
6. Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week, Laurence E. Morehouse
7. The Bermuda Triangle, Charles Berlitz with J.M. Valentine
8. The Save-Your-Life Diet, David Reuben
9. Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven
10. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. The Final Days, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
2. Roots, Alex Haley
3. Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne H. Dyer
4. Passages: The Predictable Crisis of Adult Life, Gail Sheehy
5. Born Again, Charles W. Colson
6. The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck
7. Angels: God's Secret Agents, Billy Graham
8. Blind Ambition: The White House Years, John Dean
9. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, Shere Hite
10. The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate, Leon Jaworksi

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. Roots, Alex Haley
2. Looking Out for #1, Robert Ringer
3. All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot
4. Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne H. Dyer
5. The Book of Lists, David Wallechinsky, Irving and Amy Wallace
6. The Possible Dream: A Candid Look at Amway, Charles Paul Conn
7. The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
8. The Second Ring of Power, Carlos Castaneda
9. The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck
10. The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -- What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Erma Bombeck
2. Gnomes, Wil Huygen and Rien Pootvliet
3. The Complete Book of Running, James Fixx
4. Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford
5. Pulling Your Own Strings, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
6. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon
7. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman
8. Faeries, Brian Froud and Alan Lee
9. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Theodore H. White
10. The Muppet Show Book, Tudor Banus, Jim Henson

Fiction

Non-Fiction

1. Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Erma Bombeck
2. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Herman Tarnower, M.D.
3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff
4. Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin
5. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Nathan Pritikin
6. White House Years, Henry Kissinger
7. Lauren Bacall By Myself, Lauren Bacall
8. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
9. Restoring the American Dream, Robert J. Ringer
10. The Winner's Circle, Charles Paul Conn

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