The New York Times Book Review
Here are the New York Times Book Review’s top books of 1978:
Fiction Selections:
| Title | Author |
| The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever |
| Final Payments | Mary Gordon |
| The Flounder | Gunter Grass |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving |
| Lying Low | Diane Johnson |
| Stories | Doris Lessing |
| Wrinkles | Charles Simmons |
| The Coup | John Updike |
Nonfiction Selections:
| Title | Author |
| In Patagonia | Bruce Chatwin |
| Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel Foucault |
| E.M. Forster: A Life | P.N. Furbank |
| A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 | Alistair Horne |
| Facts of Life | Maureen Howard |
| Leon Trotsky | Irving Howe |
| The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews | Eudora Welty |
| Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence | Garry Wills |
Pulitzer Prize Winning Books of 1978
Here is the Pulitzer Prize winning Fiction book of 1978:
| Title | Author |
| Elbow Room | James Alan McPherson |
Here is the Pulitzer Prize winning General Nonfiction book of 1978:
| Title | Author |
| The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Carl Sagan |