1979 Books & Authors

• Fiction Best Sellers
• The Matarese Circle - Robert Ludlum
• Sophie's Choice - William Styron
• Overload - Arthur Hailey
• Memories of Another Day - Harold Robbins
• Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Dead Zone - Stephen King
• The Last Enchantment - Howard Fast
• The Third World War: August 1985 - Gen. Sir John Hackett et al.
• Smiley's People - John le Carre


• Non-Fiction Best Sellers
• Aunt Erma's Cope Book - Erma Bombeck
• The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet - Herman Tarnower, M.D., Samm Sinclair Baker
• How to Prosper during the Coming Bad Years - Howard J. Ruff
• Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin
• The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise - Nathan Pritikin, Patrick McGrady, Jr.
• White House Years - Henry Kissinger
• Lauren Bacall by Myself - Lauren Bacall
• The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court - Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong
• Restoring the American Dream - Robert J. Ringer


• Pulitzer Fiction
• The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever


• Pulitzer Non-Fiction
• On Human Nature, Edward O. Wilson