Published in 1970

1
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart
6,413 members
120 reviews
4.1
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, MrMojo7136
2
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
10,989 members
213 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, Jim.Shine
3
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
8,884 members
260 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, RachelKirk
4
Nine Princes in Amber
by Roger Zelazny
4,025 members
121 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, Myyst
5
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
17,521 members
259 reviews
4
Member
RachelKirk
6
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
15,888 members
271 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
7
The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
14,160 members
88 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
8
Fantastic Mr. Fox
by Roald Dahl
11,743 members
156 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
9
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
10,456 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Jim.Shine
10
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
4,426 members
154 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
11
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
4,094 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
12
Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
3,451 members
94 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
13
In the Night Kitchen
by Maurice Sendak
3,169 members
121 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
14
Passenger to Frankfurt
by Agatha Christie
3,003 members
68 reviews
2.8
Member
ahef1963
15
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hillerman
2,548 members
80 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
16
Fire from Heaven
by Mary Renault
2,475 members
35 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
17
A Maze of Death
by Philip K. Dick
2,073 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Myyst
18
Asterix in Switzerland
by René Goscinny
1,825 members
19 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
1,536 members
27 reviews
3.9
Member
Jim.Shine
21
This Perfect Day
by Ira Levin
1,433 members
41 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
22
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
1,008 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
Jim.Shine
23
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
by H. P. Lovecraft
837 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
470 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
12,985 members
241 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
3,602 members
72 reviews
3.8
31
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway
3,155 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
32
Love Story
by Erich Segal
3,116 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
2,890 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
34
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,848 members
63 reviews
3.9
35
The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
2,519 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
36
Tau Zero
by Poul Anderson
2,097 members
63 reviews
½ 3.6
37
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino
1,981 members
24 reviews
3.8
38
The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
1,955 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
39
QB VII
by Leon Uris
1,899 members
24 reviews
3.8
40
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
1,652 members
55 reviews
4
41
The Driver's Seat
by Muriel Spark
1,206 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
42
The Decay of the Angel
by Yukio Mishima
1,182 members
16 reviews
3.9
43
Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox
1,080 members
43 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
895 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
810 members
10 reviews
3.8
48
Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty
768 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
49
The Vivisector
by Patrick White
722 members
14 reviews
4.1
50
A Guilty Thing Surprised
by Ruth Rendell
691 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
51
Great Lion of God
by Taylor Caldwell
657 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
466 members
1 review
3.8
57
The Changeling
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
390 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
58
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
by Jimmy Breslin
344 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3