A mix of fiction and nonfiction set in/about the 1970s. Books from the decade too.
created by terriblangel
last updated June, 2026
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
The Free World
David Bezmozgis
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Stephen King
Burnt Offerings
Robert Marasco
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Anne Rice
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick Perlstein
God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America
Larry Eskridge
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
Carrie
Coffin Moon
Keith Rosson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
Livonia Chow Mein
Abigail Savitch-Lew
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
Kate Daloz
City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
Edmund White
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Jefferson R. Cowie
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
Rick Emerson
Sister Golden Hair
Darcey Steinke
Here's to My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980
George Case
Mary Jane
Jessica Anya Blau
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
Julia Scheeres
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