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1970’s

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1970’s book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Angle of Repose (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1970: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
1970: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
1970: Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
1970: Play It As It Lays Joan Didion
1970: Ringworld by Larry Niven
1970: The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
1971: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1971: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
1971: Grendel by John Gardner
1971: In A Free State, Naipaul
1971: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
1972: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
1972: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
1972: G. by John Berger
1972: My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
1972: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
1972: The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
1972: Watership Down by Richard Adams
1973: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
1973: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1973: Princess Bride by William Goldman
1973: Sula by Toni Morrison
1973: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
1974: Centennial by James Michener
1974: The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
1974: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1974: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
1975: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
1975: Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
1975: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
1975: Shogun by James Clavell
1975: Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry
1976: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
1976: Roots by Alex Haley
1976: Trinity by Leon Uris
1977: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1977: I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
1977: The Shining by Stephen King
1977: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
1978: Birdy by William Wharton
1978: The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
1978: Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
1978: The Stand by Stephen King
1978: The World According to Garp by John Irving
1979: A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
1979: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
1979: If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
1979: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
1979: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Decades ‘07 Reviews:
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (3M)
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (Raidergirl3)
Grendel by John Gardner (3M)
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (3M)
Mission of Gravity – Hal Clement (Backcountry Musings)

Princess Bride by William Goldman (Booklogged)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Joy)
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken (3M)
The Shining by Stephen King (BookOkie)
Sula by Toni Morrison (Literary Feline)
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (Dana)
Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry (Caribousmom)
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry (Lynne)
Trinity by Leon Uris (Framed)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Lisa)
A Word Child by Iris Murdoch (Thomas)
Zia by Scott O’Dell (3M)

2008 reviews:

1. Joy (The Bluest Eye)
2. Love (Duktig pojke)
3. Becky (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH)
4. joanna (Are you there, God? It\’s me, Margaret)
5. The Princess Bride (Kim)
6. Maria (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH)
7. 3M (Bluest Eye)
8. pussreboots (Winter of the Birds)
9. pussreboots (Z for Zachariah)
10. Becky (Ramona the Brave)
11. Ashleigh (Crash)
12. Wendy (Angle of Repose)
13. pussreboots (The Dispossessed)
14. LizzySiddal (The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum)
15. Aria (The Princess Bride)
16. Jeanette (The Chocolate War)
17. 3M (Bear)
18. pussreboots (Evergreen)
19. Nicola (Abel\’s Island)
20. Framed (The Changling)
21. Jan in Edmonds (Walk a Black Wind)
22. SuziQoregon (Trinity)
23. Lisa (The Bluest Eye)
24. Bart\’s Bookshelf (84 Charing Cross Road)



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