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Best 1970s Historical Fiction
1.
This I Know
by:
Eldonna Edwards
4.25 avg rating β 4,323 ratings
2.
Daisy Jones & The Six
by:
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.20 avg rating β 1,772,672 ratings
3.
A Fine Balance
by:
Rohinton Mistry
4.38 avg rating β 156,867 ratings
4.
The Ice Storm
by:
Rick Moody
3.65 avg rating β 6,085 ratings
5.
White Teeth
by:
Zadie Smith
3.79 avg rating β 170,772 ratings
6.
The Great Alone
by:
Kristin Hannah
4.45 avg rating β 1,076,351 ratings
6.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by:
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.40 avg rating β 3,835,481 ratings
8.
Let the Great World Spin
by:
Colum McCann
3.96 avg rating β 108,635 ratings
9.
Emma Who Saved My Life
by:
Wilton Barnhardt
3.76 avg rating β 546 ratings
10.
Let Me Wear Your Coat
by:
John Basil
4.15 avg rating β 13 ratings
11.
Nine Minutes (Nine Minutes, #1)
by:
Beth Flynn
4.35 avg rating β 19,334 ratings
12.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
by:
Lorrie Moore
3.83 avg rating β 14,383 ratings
12.
Out of Time (Nine Minutes, #2)
by:
Beth Flynn
4.42 avg rating β 9,004 ratings
14.
Dancer from the Dance
by:
Andrew Holleran
3.98 avg rating β 10,108 ratings
15.
The Buddha of Suburbia
by:
Hanif Kureishi
3.75 avg rating β 20,583 ratings
16.
My Vietnam War
by:
E.E. Doc Murdock
3.75 avg rating β 16 ratings
17.
Yankee, Go Home
by:
Sharon Delarose
4.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
17.
Finding Signs
by:
Sharlene Baker
4.12 avg rating β 24 ratings
17.
Mary Jane
by:
Jessica Anya Blau
4.13 avg rating β 105,724 ratings
20.
Late Nights on Air
by:
Elizabeth Hay
3.58 avg rating β 12,536 ratings
21.
Vinegar Hill
by:
A. Manette Ansay
3.39 avg rating β 29,575 ratings
22.
The Kite Runner
by:
Khaled Hosseini
4.35 avg rating β 3,402,640 ratings
23.
Original Sins
by:
Lisa Alther
3.63 avg rating β 406 ratings
24.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by:
Dai Sijie
3.64 avg rating β 67,018 ratings
25.
The Fortress of Solitude
by:
Jonathan Lethem
3.84 avg rating β 24,040 ratings
25.
Marriage Bed
by:
Constance Beresford-Howe
3.99 avg rating β 79 ratings
27.
The New City
by:
Stephen Amidon
3.82 avg rating β 107 ratings
28.
Pinball
by:
Jerzy KosiΕski
3.60 avg rating β 1,108 ratings
29.
Swimming in the Volcano
by:
Bob Shacochis
3.67 avg rating β 126 ratings
30.
Anita and Me
by:
Meera Syal
3.70 avg rating β 3,169 ratings
31.
Land of Smiles
by:
T.C. Huo
2.95 avg rating β 22 ratings
32.
Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies
by:
Tom Perrotta
3.75 avg rating β 2,147 ratings
32.
Poems, 1962-2012
by:
Louise GlΓΌck
4.43 avg rating β 1,954 ratings
32.
Transforming Pandora (Pandora, #1)
by:
Carolyn Mathews
4.38 avg rating β 34 ratings
32.
His Beloved Infidel
by:
Sharon E. Cathcart
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
32.
Dependence
by:
Sue Noye Clark
4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings
32.
The Girl You Left Behind
by:
Jojo Moyes
4.03 avg rating β 176,532 ratings
32.
Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead
by:
Scott R. Larson
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
32.
Metal Horses
by:
Ron Ames
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
32.
Letters From the Heart
by:
Fred A. Brede
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
32.
Seasons of Love and War
by:
Brenda Ashworth Barry
4.53 avg rating β 66 ratings
32.
Late Nights on Air
by:
Elizabeth Hay
3.58 avg rating β 12,536 ratings
32.
Parisian Promises
by:
Cecilia VelΓ‘stegui
4.36 avg rating β 25 ratings
32.
Rich Like Us
by:
Nayantara Sahgal
3.44 avg rating β 169 ratings
32.
The Choice
by:
Robert Whitlow
4.24 avg rating β 1,885 ratings
32.
Twice Freed
by:
Patricia St. John
4.12 avg rating β 1,739 ratings
32.
The Remnants of Summer
by:
Dawn Newton
3.57 avg rating β 35 ratings
32.
Letters from Johnny (184) (Essential Prose Series)
by:
Wayne Ng
4.51 avg rating β 206 ratings
32.
Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win
by:
Susan Azim Boyer
3.85 avg rating β 615 ratings
32.
Valentine
by:
Elizabeth Wetmore
3.76 avg rating β 43,512 ratings
32.
Loom in the Loft
by:
Jay Black
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings
52.
December Road
by:
Brenda Ashworth Barry
4.43 avg rating β 28 ratings
52.
No Small Thing
by:
Natale Ghent
4.20 avg rating β 946 ratings
52.
First Kisses
by:
Jay Black
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 8 ratings
55.
The Old Neighborhood
by:
Avery Corman
4.06 avg rating β 855 ratings
55.
Juneβs Stolen Rose (Seasons of Love and War Book 4)
by:
Brenda Ashworth Barry
4.75 avg rating β 24 ratings
55.
Never Fall Down
by:
Patricia McCormick
4.17 avg rating β 12,215 ratings
58.
Highways to a War
by:
Christopher J. Koch
4.28 avg rating β 608 ratings
58.
April's Secret Storm
by:
Brenda Ashworth Barry
4.59 avg rating β 27 ratings
58.
The View from a Kite
by:
Maureen Hull
3.66 avg rating β 61 ratings
58.
A Girl Is a Body of Water
by:
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
4.15 avg rating β 8,335 ratings
62.
We're Not Here
by:
Tim Mahoney
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
62.
Accidents of Nature
by:
Harriet McBryde Johnson
3.70 avg rating β 792 ratings
64.
The Free World
by:
David Bezmozgis
3.37 avg rating β 1,759 ratings
64.
Eve Green
by:
Susan Fletcher
3.69 avg rating β 2,503 ratings
66.
Intimate Enemies
by:
Caryl Rivers
3.48 avg rating β 31 ratings
67.
Third Girl from the Left
by:
Martha Southgate
3.95 avg rating β 751 ratings
67.
The Year Roger Wasn't Well: A Novel
by:
Sarah Payne Stuart
3.33 avg rating β 9 ratings
69.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
by:
Maaza Mengiste
3.96 avg rating β 3,749 ratings
69.
Polite Sex
by:
James Wilcox
3.09 avg rating β 116 ratings
69.
Instructions for a Heatwave
by:
Maggie O'Farrell
3.75 avg rating β 29,898 ratings
72.
The Redundancy Of Courage
by:
Timothy Mo
4.17 avg rating β 290 ratings
72.
Superior Women
by:
Alice Adams
3.65 avg rating β 563 ratings
74.
Dream Jungle
by:
Jessica Hagedorn
3.51 avg rating β 583 ratings
75.
The Basketball Diaries
by:
Jim Carroll
3.99 avg rating β 31,490 ratings
75.
Terminal Velocity (Ellen Burns #2)
by:
Blanche McCrary Boyd
3.64 avg rating β 172 ratings
77.
Nervous Conditions
by:
Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.04 avg rating β 22,085 ratings
78.
Can't Quit You, Baby
by:
Ellen Douglas
3.92 avg rating β 270 ratings
79.
The Brothers K
by:
David James Duncan
4.39 avg rating β 16,669 ratings
80.
Plays Well with Others
by:
Allan Gurganus
3.95 avg rating β 707 ratings
81.
Last Bongo Sunset: A Novel
by:
Les Plesko
4.05 avg rating β 56 ratings
82.
Funny Boy
by:
Shyam Selvadurai
4.06 avg rating β 8,695 ratings
83.
Tully
by:
Paullina Simons
3.91 avg rating β 11,599 ratings