Published in 1970

1
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart
5,878 members
111 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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2
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
7,742 members
241 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, RachelKirk
3
Nine Princes in Amber
by Roger Zelazny
3,641 members
99 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, Myyst
4
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
14,890 members
226 reviews
4
Member
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5
The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
11,802 members
79 reviews
4.1
Member
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6
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
3,758 members
63 reviews
3.8
Member
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7
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
3,232 members
88 reviews
4.2
Member
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8
In the Night Kitchen
by Maurice Sendak
2,858 members
118 reviews
3.9
Member
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9
Passenger to Frankfurt
by Agatha Christie
2,597 members
59 reviews
2.8
Member
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10
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hillerman
2,234 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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11
Fire from Heaven
by Mary Renault
2,216 members
30 reviews
3.9
Member
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12
A Maze of Death
by Philip K. Dick
1,815 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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13
Asterix in Switzerland
by René Goscinny
1,576 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
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14
Asterix and the Roman Agent
by René Goscinny
1,476 members
9 reviews
4.1
Member
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15
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
by H. P. Lovecraft
783 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
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16
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories [short fiction]
by Gene Wolfe
14 members
½ 2.7
Member
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18
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
13,567 members
241 reviews
3.9
19
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
11,656 members
212 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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Explanations
aulsmith : Bleech. It was a bad year for cheap sentimentality.
20
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
9,999 members
187 reviews
3.8
21
Fantastic Mr Fox
by Roald Dahl
9,599 members
141 reviews
3.9
22
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
4,150 members
140 reviews
3.9
23
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion
2,976 members
59 reviews
3.8
24
Love Story
by Erich Segal
2,891 members
63 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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Explanations
aulsmith : Bleech. It was a bad year for cheap sentimentality.
25
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway
2,804 members
29 reviews
3.8
26
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
2,623 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5
27
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,591 members
59 reviews
3.9
28
The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
2,310 members
21 reviews
½ 3.7
29
Tau Zero
by Poul Anderson
1,825 members
54 reviews
½ 3.6
30
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino
1,760 members
19 reviews
3.9
31
QB VII
by Leon Uris
1,752 members
22 reviews
3.8
32
The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
1,696 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
33
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
1,463 members
52 reviews
4
34
This Perfect Day
by Ira Levin
1,301 members
37 reviews
3.9
35
The Decay of the Angel
by Yukio Mishima
1,042 members
15 reviews
3.9
36
The Driver's Seat
by Muriel Spark
1,001 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
37
Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox
953 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
38
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
912 members
31 reviews
3.9
39
The Fall of the Towers
by Samuel R. Delany
831 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
40
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
by Iris Murdoch
826 members
18 reviews
3.9
41
The Long Lavender Look
by John D. MacDonald
815 members
15 reviews
3.8
42
A Clubbable Woman
by Reginald Hill
740 members
21 reviews
½ 3.4
43
Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty
701 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
44
The Man Called Noon
by Louis L'Amour
664 members
8 reviews
3.8
45
A Guilty Thing Surprised
by Ruth Rendell
652 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
46
The Vivisector
by Patrick White
645 members
10 reviews
4.1
47
Great Lion of God
by Taylor Caldwell
588 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
48
I'm the King of the Castle
by Susan Hill
514 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
49
Mandala
by Pearl S. Buck
502 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
50
The Pnume
by Jack Vance
476 members
8 reviews
3.8
51
The Secret Woman
by Victoria Holt
434 members
9 reviews
3.2
52
Moving On
by Larry McMurtry
414 members
1 review
3.8
53
The Changeling
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
365 members
14 reviews
½ 4.3
54
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
by Jimmy Breslin
316 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4