1971

US Fiction

1. Wheels, Arthur Hailey 131 copies on LT

2. The Exorcist, William P. Blatty 865 copies

3. The Passions of the Mind, Irving Stone 138 copies

4. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 817 copies

5. The Betsy, Harold Robbins 51 copies

6. Message from Malaga, Helen MacInnes 56 copies

7. The Winds of War, Herman Wouk 555 copies

8. The Drifters, James A. Michener 272 copies

9. The Other, Thomas Tryon 132 copies

10. Rabbit Redux, John Updike 549 copies

N O N F I C T I O N

1. The Sensous Man, "M" 20 copies

2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown 1,394 copies

3. Better Homes and Gardens Blender Cook Book 21 copies

4. I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris 310 copies

5. Any Woman Can!, David Reuben, M.D. 9 copies

6. Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer 438 copies

7. Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash 190 copies

8. Wunnerful, Wunnerful!, Lawrence Welk 8 copies

9. Honor Thy Father, Gay Talese 63 copies

10. Fields of Wonder, Rod McKuen 13 copies

I read the Day of the Jackal in high school, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee when I was really too young to understand. I did my master's thesis on Albert Speer so I had to plow through Inside the Third Reich over and over.

I remember The Betsy was made into a particularly dreadful movie.

I think the Winds of War converted my stepfather from an occasional reader to a quite consistent reader.

The only one I've read from this list is Day of the Jackal. Liked it, but rooted for the Jackal. ; )

Finally some that I have read.
The Winds of War
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
Eleanor and Franklin

Tried to read The Day of the Jackal and Rabbit Redux, but neither of them passed the 50-page test, so they are not in my library today.

Read Winds of War many years ago. I loved it. It was probably one of the better books I have read. Marjorie Morningstar by Wouk was also very good. I should read Winds again would probably enjoy it more today.

This is the first year I've read more of the non-fiction than the fiction! (I also rooted for the Jackal.)

I think I was enamoured of the Jackal.

The Winds Of War
The Drifters
I'm O.K., You're O.K.

I found The Winds Of War impossible to put down and felt the same about the sequel War And Remembrance. Absolutely riveting.

The Drifters has special appeal for me because one of Michener's settings in the book is Torremolinos, Spain, where I met my future husband on the beach while adventuring throughout Europe in the late 60s. We're still together, forty years later. Who would have thought? Certainly not my worried parents.

Hi! A pretty good reading year for me, apparently. I read The Exorcist, The Winds of War, The Other, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and I think I may have read The Betsy (what can I say, my mom read voraciously, and many of the books she read were potboilers, like this one and The Exorcist, and I read them when she was finished with them) and I'm Okay, You're Okay.

Just Rabbit Redux for me.

Just Rabbit Redux and I'm OK, You're OK for me. I've seen the film of Day of the Jackal.

Ive read Rabbit Redux

An interesting year, read 6 of the fiction, 4 of the non-fiction. I was a sr. in college that year, and I reviewed Blatty's The Exorcist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and received a nice thank-you note from Blatty two weeks later.

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My father's family was from Memphis (earlier from Pontotoc, MS). Besides John Grisham do you have any other Memphis suggestions?

ypfluke, I lived in Memphis for 25 years before coming here to Germantown, but I was originally from Vicksburg, another Mississippi connection too. As far as Memphis suggestions, how about Nashville? Tony Earley's been teaching at Vanderbilt a good while now, and is also an extremely nice guy, so if you've not read his 2000 novel Jim the Boy then you're really in for a treat. I recommended it to a small reading group last year, and every single reader loved it, which was a very rare occurrence. And he's just published the sequel to it called The Blue Star, which picks up the story of Jim seven years later, also highly recommended.

I've read The Day of the Jackal, and have Rabbit Redux on my TBR List.

I read The Drifters many years ago. It sort of made me mad, as it seemed to be an extremely "square" treatment of the time and place and lifestyle. I've also read the Speer memoir, Inside the Third Reich, which was fascinating and chilling. I can't believe I've never read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, but alas I have not.

I think I started reading Wheels but I could just never get intio Hailey; I still have The Exorcist wonderful film and Day of the Jackal filmed twice, I think? I just remember the first one.