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Annual Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 1975 to 1979
Each book that appeared in a Publishers Weekly annual hardcover nonfiction bestseller list during the years 1975 through 1979 is listed below in alphabetical order, along with information specifying whether or not the book includes an index.
Until 1977, Publishers Weekly listed the top ten bestsellers. Since then, it has listed the top fifteen. Therefore, from 1975 to 1979, there were a total of 60 positions on its bestseller lists. The table below includes only 56 titles because some titles were bestsellers in more than one year.
Information about the presence or absence of an index is based on data in the book's MARC tags retrieved from the Library of Congress Online Catalog . The table indicates the presence of an index only if the word index appears in the book's MARC field tag 500, usually in a phrase such as Includes index or Includes bibliography and index. It indicates the absence of an index if the word index does not appear in the book's MARC field tag 500 or if field tag 500 is not one of the book's MARC tags. Occasionally, information in the table is based on data in field tag 504 rather than field tag 500.
A summary follows the data about the individual books.
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| Annual Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers, 1975 to 1979 | ||||
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Title
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Authors
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Index?
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Years
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1. |
All Things Wise and Wonderful |
James Herriot |
No |
1977 |
| 2. | American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964 | William Manchester | Yes | 1978 |
| 3. | Amityville Horror | Jay Anson | No | 1977 |
| 4. | Angels: God's Secret Agents | Billy Graham | No | 1975, 1976 |
| 5. | Ascent of Man | Jacob Bronowski | No | 1975 |
| 6. | Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How to Get from Monday to Friday | Erma Bombeck | No | 1979 |
| 7. | Bermuda Triangle | Charles Berlitz | No | 1975 |
| 8. | Blind Ambition: The White House Years | John Dean | Yes | 1976 |
| 9. | Born Again | Charles Colson | Yes | 1976 |
| 10. | Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon | Theodore H. White | Yes | 1975 |
| 11. | Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court | Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong | Yes | 1979 |
| 12. | Bring on the Empty Horses | David Niven | Yes | 1975 |
| 13. | Bronx Zoo | Sparky Lyle, Peter Golenbock | No | 1979 |
| 14. | Complete Book of Running | James Fixx | Yes | 1978 |
| 15. | Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet | Herman Tarnower | Yes | 1979 |
| 16. | Cruel Shoes | Steve Martin | No | 1979 |
| 17. | Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century | Barbara Tuchman | Yes | 1978 |
| 18. | Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Carl Sagan | Yes | 1977 |
| 19. | Ends of Power | H. R. Haldeman | No | 1978 |
| 20. | Faeries | Brian Froud, Alan Lee | No | 1978 |
| 21. | Fannie Farmer Cookbook | Marion Cunningham | Yes | 1979 |
| 22. | Final Days | Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein | Yes | 1976 |
| 23. | Gnomes | Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet | No | 1978 |
| 24. | Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank | Erma Bombeck | No | 1976, 1977 |
| 25. | Hite Report: A Nationwide study of Female sexuality | Shere Hite | No | 1976 |
| 26. | How to Become Financially Independent by Investing in Real Estate | Albert Lowry | Yes | 1979 (also 1980) |
| 27. | How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years | Howard Ruff | Yes | 1979 |
| 28. | If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries - What Am I Doing in the Pits? | Erma Bombeck | No | 1978 |
| 29. | In Search of History: A Personal Adventure | Theodore H. White | Yes | 1978 |
| 30. | Jackie Oh! | Kitty Kelley | Yes | 1978 |
| 31. | James Herriot's Yorkshire | James Herriot | No | 1979 |
| 32. | Lauren Bacall By Myself | Lauren Bacall | No | 1979 |
| 33. | Looking Out for Number One | Robert Ringer | Yes | 1977 |
| 34. | Mommie Dearest | Christina Crawford | No | 1978 |
| 35. | Muppet Show Book | Muppet People | No | 1978 |
| 36. | My Mother/My Self: A Daughter's Search for Identity | Nancy Friday | No | 1978 |
| 37. | Passages: The Predictable Crises of Adult Life | Gail Sheehy | Yes | 1976 |
| 38. | People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists | David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace | No | 1977 |
| 39. | Possible Dream: A Candid Look at Amway | Charles Paul Conn | No | 1977 |
| 40. | Powers that Be | David Halberstam | Yes | 1979 |
| 41. | Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise | Nathan Pritikin, Patrick McGrady | Yes | 1979 |
| 42. | Pulling Your Own Strings | Wayne Dyer | Yes | 1978 |
| 43. | Restoring the American Dream | Robert Ringer | Yes | 1979 |
| 44. | Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate | Leon Jaworski | Yes | 1976 |
| 45. | RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon | Richard Nixon | No | 1978 |
| 46. | Roots | Alex Haley | No | 1976, 1977 |
| 47. | Save–Your–Life Diet | David Reuben | No | 1975 |
| 48. | Second Ring of Power | Carlos Castaneda | No | 1977 |
| 49. | Sylvia Porter's Money Book | Sylvia Porter | Yes | 1975 |
| 50. | Winner's Circle | Charles Paul Conn | No | 1979 |
| 51. | Time for Truth | William E. Simon | Yes | 1978 |
| 52. | TM*: Discovering Energy and Overcoming Stress | Harold Bloomfield | No | 1975 |
| 53. | Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week | Laurence Morehouse | No | 1975 |
| 54. | White House Years | Henry Kissinger | Yes | 1979 |
| 55. | Winning Through Intimidation | Robert Ringer | No | 1975 |
| 56. | Your Erroneous Zones | Wayne Dyer | Yes | 1976, 1977 |
| Totals Based on Titles | |
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Titles: # Titles with indexes: % Titles with indexes: |
56 27 48% |
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Totals Based on Positions Per Year |
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1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 |
3 of 6 of 3 of 7 of 9 of 28 of |
10 10 10 15 15 60 |
30% 60% 30% 60% 47% 47% |
For information about other annual hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the periods
| 1980 to 1989 >> | 1990 to 1999 >> | 2000 to 2005 >> |
For information about recent weekly hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, link to pages for the years
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |