The Dragons of Eden
1977 book by Carl Sagan, in which the author combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence may have evolved
1970s
The Killer Angels
1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book depicts the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and the days leading up to it: June 29, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought
The Long Walk
Dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
A Judgement in Stone
1977 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, widely considered to be one of her greatest works.
Interview with the Vampire
Gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976. It was her debut novel
The Ghost Writer
1979 novel by the American author Philip Roth
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography, and is the first of Pirsig’s texts in which he explores his “Metaphysics of Quality”.Pirsig received 121 rejections before an editor finally accepted the book for publicationand he did so thinking it would never generate a profit
Gravity’s Rainbow
1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon
Portrait of a Marriage
1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters.
Ringworld
1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature