Literature of the 1970s

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Works of literature from the 1970s.

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A

• Abel's Island
• The Abortion
• The Adventures Of Alyx
• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
• After the First Death
• "After King Kong Fell"
• Again, Dangerous Visions
• Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Alfie Atkins
• Alliance/Union series. Although the main series started in the '80s, the Faded Sun trilogy began in 1978.
• Almost Transparent Blue
• Amelia Peabody series (starting in 1975)
• The Amityville Horror
• Among The Dolls
• Anarchist Cookbook
• Anastasia Krupnik series
• Android at Arms
• Angle of Repose
• The Animals of Farthing Wood series
• The Apple Dumpling Gang
• Approaches to Science Fiction
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
• Arthur
• Asimov's Book of Facts
• Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
• As Tomorrow Becomes Today
• Audrey Rose
• August 1914
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen — last ever Jeeves and Wooster novel
• The Autumn of the Patriarch

B

• Banco
• Barbapapa
• Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
• Bernie Rhodenbarr series (started in 1977)
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
• Beyond Time and Space
• "The Bicentennial Man"
• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
• Biting the Sun
• Black Sunday (Thomas Harris)
• The Bleeding Man
• Bless the Beasts & Children
• Blood Feud
• Bloodline
• The Bloody Chamber
• Blubber
• The Bluest Eye
• The Book of the Dun Cow
• The Book of Merlyn. Written in the 1940s, but published in 1977.
• Bored-Nothing to Do
• Born on the Fourth of July
• "A Boy's Best Friend"
• The Boys from Brazil
• Breakfast of Champions
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Brother Cadfael series (started in 1977)
• The Brothers Lionheart
• Bugged!
• Bunnicula series (started in 1979)
• Burglar Bill
• The Burnt Orange Heresy
• Burnt Offerings
• The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

C

• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series
• Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
• Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
• The Carpet People
• Carrie
• Casca: The Eternal Mercenary series (beginning in 1979)
• The Case of the Double Husband (written prior to 1969, first published in 1971)
• The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
• Challengers of the Unknown
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
• Child of God
• Children of Dune
• The Chocolate War
• Chrestomanci series (started in 1977).
• Christiane F.
• The Chronicles of Amber. Series started in 1970.
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• The Clairvoyant Countess
• Classics Dark and Dangerous (Novelization)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Cluster series
• CoDominium series
• The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
• Coma
• Corum series
• Crash
• Curtain

D

• The Dalemark Quartet
• Dalziel and Pascoe series
• Dancing Aztecs
• Danny, the Champion of the World
• The Dark Side of the Sun
• Das Zeitfahrrad
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Dead Zone
• Death Wish
• Deenie
• Definitely, Maybe
• Deliverance
• Demon Seed
• Deryni series (beginning in 1970)
• The Destroyer. The series was first published in 1971, though the first novel was written in 1963.
• The Devils Alternative
• Dhalgren
• The Diadem Saga (began in 1977)
• The Dice Man
• Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
• Dirk Pitt Adventures (starting in 1973)
  • Raise the Titanic!
• The Dispossessed
• The Diviners (1974)
• Dogsbody
• The Dogs of War
• Dollanganger Series (starting in 1979)
• Don't Hurt Laurie!
• Dortmunder series (starting in 1970)
• The Dosadi Experiment
• Down a Dark Hall
• Down to a Sunless Sea
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
• The Draco Tavern series (starting in 1977)
• The Dracula Tape
• The Dragon Hoard
• Dragonriders of Pern. Though it started in the sixties, several of the best-known novels were written in the seventies.
• The Drawing of the Dark
• Dread Companion
• Doorways in the Sand
• The Dragon Knight series (beginning in 1976)
• Dreamsnake
• Dreamspeaker

E

• The Early Asimov
• Eat Them Alive
• Ecce Romani. First published in 1971.
• Ecotopia
• The Eiger Sanction
• Eight Days of Luke
• Eight Worlds series. The first story in the series was published in 1974.
• Elbow Room
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
• Enchantress from the Stars
• Endless Love
• The Enemy Papers
• Error of Judgement
• Exodus UK
• The Exorcist
• Extraterrestrial Civilizations
• Exxoneration
• The Eye of Argon
• The Eye of the Heron

F

• Factotum
• The Faded Sun
• A Family Affair
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Far Pavilions
• The Far Side of Evil
• The Farthest-Away Mountain
• The Father Christmas Letters
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Fear of Flying
• Felse Investigates. The series ended in 1978.
• The Female Man
• Fifth Business
• The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and How They Got That Way)
• First Blood
• The Flame and the Flower
• Flight to the Lonesome Place
• Flowers in the Attic
• Fluke
• The Flying Sorcerers
• The Fog (1975)
• The Forever War
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
• Fourth-Grade Celebrity
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• Frog and Toad series (beginning in 1970)
• FUDGE series
• Fugue for a Darkening Island
• Full Disclosure
• The Future: Can We Shape It?

G

• Gaea Trilogy. The first novel was published in 1979.
• Gentlehands
• Gerfaut War
• Ghost Story 1979
• A Gift of Magic
• The Girl Who Owned a City
• Gnomes
• Go Ask Alice
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• The Gods Themselves
• Gravity's Rainbow
• The Great Balloon Race
• The Great Gilly Hopkins
• The Great Train Robbery
• Green-Sky Trilogy
• Grendel
• The Gulag Archipelago

H

• Hainish series began in the '60s and continued into the '70s.
• Hammer's Slammers series
• The Han Solo Adventures
• Hangin' Out with Cici
• Harvest Home
• He (short story)
• Hear the Wind Sing
• Heechee Saga. Series began in 1977.
• He Is Your Brother
• Helga's Dowry
• Hell House
• Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
• Histoire Du Prince Pipo
• Histoires de Robots
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
• A Hole in the Fence
• Horseclans series
• House of Stairs
• The House Next Door
• The House With a Clock in Its Walls
• The Huffin Puff Express
• Humanx Commonwealth series
• Humboldt's Gift
• Hunter of Worlds

I

• I Am the Cheese
• The Ice-Cream Cone Coot and Other Rare Birds
• Ice Crown
• If on a winter’s night a traveler
• Iggie's House
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Illuminatus! Trilogy
• In a Summer Garment
• Indecent Exposure
• In Dreams Awake
• The Infernal Device
• Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
• In the Keep of Time
• In The Shadow Of A Rainbow published in 1974
• The Inverted World
• Invisible Cities
• The Iron Dream
• Isaac Asimov Presents: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1939
• Isaac Asimov Presents: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940
• The Island of the Skog
• I Will Fear No Evil

JK

• J R
• Jacob Two-Two series
• Jack of Shadows
• Jaws
• Jerusalem's Lot
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Julie of the Wolves
• Kane Series
• The Kid from Hell
• The Killer Angels
• Killing Mr. Griffin
• Kindred
• Kiss of the Spider Woman

• Krabat
• Kronk

L

• Last Legionary series
• Last Son of Krypton
• The Lathe of Heaven
• Leaphorn & Chee
• Life Before Man
• "Light Verse"
• The Limits to Growth
• Little Critter
• Little Lost Robot (A chapter book for English Language learners)
• The Little Vampire series
• Lizard Music
• The Long Walk
• The Lorax
• Loskutik And The Cloud
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
• Lucifer's Hammer

M

• Macdonald Hall series
• The Manitou
• Mass
• Masquerade
• Max and Ruby (Series started in 1979)
• The Machine Gunners
• Maiden Crown
• Malevil
• The Man Who Folded Himself
• Maurice. First published in 1971, though it was written c. 1913.
• McAuslan series
• Merlin
• The Merlin Trilogy
• The Merman's Children
• A Midsummer Tempest
• Mind to Mind
• "Mirror Image"
• Mobile Suit Gundam
• Mommie Dearest
• Momo
• "The Monkey Wrench Gang"
• The Monster at the End of This Book
• Moon Rainbow (part one published in 1978)
• Morgaine Cycle
• The Mote in God's Eye
• Motel of the Mysteries
• Mr. Men series
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Much Obliged, Jeeves
• The Muddle-Headed Wombat. The series begain in the '60s and continued through the '70s.
• Mumbo Jumbo
• Murder in Coweta County
• My Brother, My Executioner
• My Name Is Legion
• The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)
• Myth Adventures series
• My Uncle Oswald

NO

• A Necklace of Fallen Stars
• Nemesis
• The Neverending Story
• Night Shift
• No Beast So Fierce
• Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
• The Odessa File
• Of Mice and Mooshaber
• The Ogre Downstairs
• Oliver Button Is a Sissy
• One Fat Summer
• "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
• Open Veins of Latin America
• Operation Chaos
• Orca: The Killer Whale
• Ordinary People
• Orientalism
• The Orion pulp novels
• The Other
• Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
• The Outcasts

PQ

• Paperback Writer
• Passenger to Frankfurt
• The Passion of New Eve
• Patternist series
• The Perilous Gard
• Perilous Passage
• The Plague Dogs
• A Planet Called Treason
• Play It as It Lays
• "Point of View"
• Power of Three
• The Princess Bride
• "The Private Life Of Genghis Khan"
• Professor Moriarty Series
• Puberty Blues
• Pubis Angelical
• The Public Burning
• The Quest for Karla trilogy

R

• The Rats
• Rage (1977)
• Ragtime
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Return of the Living Dead
• Requiem for a Dream
• Riotous Assembly
• The Road To Gandolfo
• Roadmarks
• The Room (1971)
• Roots
• Rules For Radicals
• Rumble Fish
• Runaway Ralph
• The Riddle Master Trilogy
• Ringworld series
• Riverworld series
• Roadside Picnic
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Rotten Ralph (the first two books were published in 1976 and 1978)
• Rubyfruit Jungle

S

• 'Salem's Lot
• A Scanner Darkly
• School and Society Through Science Fiction
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Science Fiction Favorites
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One
• A Science Fiction Omnibus
• Science Fiction Special
• Science Fiction Stories
• The Season of the Witch
• Separation
• Serpico
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
• Shibumi
• The Silmarillion
• Sime Gen series
• Shannara series (beginning in 1977)
• Shardik
• The Shining
• The Shockwave Rider
• Sleeping Murder
• Sometimes They Come Back
• Song for a Dark Queen
• Song of Solomon
• Sophie's Choice
• Space Mowgli
• The Spear
• Speculation
• Spenser series (starting in 1973)
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye
• Sprat Morrison
• The Stand
• The Stanley Family series
• Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
• Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
• The Steel Bonnets
• The Stepford Wives
• The Stories of John Cheever
• Stranger in Paradise
• Strega Nona
• The Stupids (series of picture books beginning in 1974)
• Suffer the Children
• Summer of My German Soldier
• The Super Dictionary
• Surfacing (1972)
• Suttree
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• The Sword of Shannara Trilogy

T

• The Tale of the Five series
• Tales from the Flat Earth series (started in 1978)
• Tales of the Black Widowers
• Tales of the City series
• Tales of the Fox series (started in 1979)
• Taro And Jiro The Sibling Locomotives
  • Dr. Tomato & The Beetle
• "The Tercentenary Incident"
• The Terminal Man
• Tesseract 1
• Tau Zero
• Thais of Athens
• "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him"
• That Was Then... This Is Now
• Then Again, Maybe I Won't
• There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
• Thieves' World series
• "Think!"
• The Third World War
• This Perfect Day
• The Thorn Birds
• Time and Again
• Time Enough for Love
• The Timeliner Trilogy
• Titus Crow series. The character first appeared in 1970.
• TKKG series
• To Ride Pegasus trilogy. The first book was published in 1973.
• Torin trilogy. The first book was published in 1977.
• Travis McGee
• The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
• Tree
• Triple
• "True Love"
• The Trumpet of the Swan
• Tuck Everlasting
• The Turner Diaries
• Twister
• Two-Minute Mysteries. The second book was published in 1972.
• The Rose Flower and Joe

UV

• Ultimatum
• Underkill
• Valence and Vision: A Reader in Psychology
• Les Voyageurs Sans Souci

W

• The Wall Around the World and Other Science Fiction Stories
• War Begins Beyond the Sea
• Watership Down
• Wayside School series
• The Way to Dusty Death
• Welcome Home, Jellybean
• Well World series
• The Westing Game
• What Dreams May Come
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Which Witch?
• Who is Julia?
• Who Needs Men?
• William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy Read Four Science Fiction Classics
• Wilt
• The Wind Eye
• A Wind in the Door
• The Winds of War/War and Remembrance
• The Witches of Worm
• The Witling
• Wolfen
• The Wolves of Paris
• Woman on the Edge of Time
• The Women's Room
• The Wooing of Beppo Tate
• The World According to Garp
• The World Inside
• A World Out of Time
• The Worlds of Science Fiction (1979)
• The Worst Witch

XYZ

• Xala
• Xanth series (beginning in 1977)
• The Year of the Cloud
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Z for Zachariah
• Zozu the Robot

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