Published in 1970

1
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart
6,428 members
120 reviews
4.1
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, MrMojo7136
2
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
11,027 members
213 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, Jim.Shine
3
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
8,921 members
260 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, RachelKirk
4
Nine Princes in Amber
by Roger Zelazny
4,034 members
121 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, Myyst
5
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
17,610 members
260 reviews
4
Member
RachelKirk
6
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
15,997 members
271 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
7
The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
14,220 members
89 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
8
Fantastic Mr. Fox
by Roald Dahl
11,796 members
156 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
9
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
10,505 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Jim.Shine
10
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
4,432 members
154 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
11
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
4,106 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
12
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
3,458 members
94 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
13
In the Night Kitchen
by Maurice Sendak
3,189 members
125 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
14
Passenger to Frankfurt
by Agatha Christie
3,020 members
68 reviews
2.8
Member
ahef1963
15
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hillerman
2,559 members
81 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
16
Fire from Heaven
by Mary Renault
2,481 members
35 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
17
A Maze of Death
by Philip K. Dick
2,082 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Myyst
18
Asterix in Switzerland
by René Goscinny
1,824 members
20 reviews
4.1
Member
Myyst
19
Asterix and the Roman Agent
by René Goscinny
1,707 members
11 reviews
4.1
Member
Myyst
20
Royal Flash
by George MacDonald Fraser
1,538 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
Jim.Shine
21
This Perfect Day
by Ira Levin
1,439 members
42 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
22
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
1,011 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
Jim.Shine
23
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
by H. P. Lovecraft
838 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
24
A Clubbable Woman
by Reginald Hill
787 members
21 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Jim.Shine
25
Valdez Is Coming
by Elmore Leonard
473 members
20 reviews
4
Member
Jim.Shine
26
Jigsaw
by Ed McBain
289 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Jim.Shine
27
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories [short fiction]
by Gene Wolfe
12 members
½ 2.7
Member
Myyst
29
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
13,021 members
242 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : Bleech. It was a bad year for cheap sentimentality.
30
Play it as it Lays
by Joan Didion
3,634 members
72 reviews
3.8
31
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway
3,163 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
32
Love Story
by Erich Segal
3,126 members
67 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
RachelKirk,aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith : Bleech. It was a bad year for cheap sentimentality.
33
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
2,893 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
34
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,856 members
63 reviews
3.9
35
The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
2,524 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
36
Tau Zero
by Poul Anderson
2,106 members
63 reviews
½ 3.6
37
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino
1,990 members
24 reviews
3.8
38
The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
1,964 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
39
QB VII
by Leon Uris
1,905 members
24 reviews
3.8
40
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
1,662 members
55 reviews
4
41
The Driver's Seat
by Muriel Spark
1,215 members
63 reviews
½ 3.7
42
The Decay of the Angel
by Yukio Mishima
1,186 members
16 reviews
3.9
43
Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox
1,081 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
44
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
by Iris Murdoch
910 members
20 reviews
3.9
45
The Fall of the Towers
by Samuel R. Delany
901 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
46
The Long Lavender Look
by John D. MacDonald
883 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
47
The Man Called Noon
by Louis L'Amour
815 members
10 reviews
3.8
48
Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty
772 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
49
The Vivisector
by Patrick White
725 members
14 reviews
4.1
50
A Guilty Thing Surprised
by Ruth Rendell
692 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
51
Great Lion of God
by Taylor Caldwell
663 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
52
I'm the King of the Castle
by Susan Hill
561 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
53
Mandala
by Pearl S. Buck
559 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
54
The Pnume
by Jack Vance
523 members
11 reviews
3.8
55
The Secret Woman
by Victoria Holt
479 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
56
Moving On
by Larry McMurtry
472 members
1 review
3.8
57
The Changeling
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
391 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
58
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
by Jimmy Breslin
344 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3