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 |