We started at 1918, bringing you the bestselling books of the last one hundred years. We’re moving along now and we’re into the 1970s as today we cover the bestselling fiction of 1972.
In 1972, was the year of the Munich Olympics Terrorist Attack, and the year of the Bloody Friday and Bloody Sunday terrorist attacks by the IRA. The year the world saw the first digital watch, and the first scientific hand held calculator. In the US there was the Watergate Scandal, in Japan, the Winter Olympics, while the UK was plunged into a state of emergency by a 47 day miners’ strike.
Among all that, there were plenty of books published and read too, and today we’re featuring the bestselling novels of 1972, and some that didn’t make the list but have stood the test of time.
1972 also saw the release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
We’ll continue this series right through to 2018, keep an eye out for 1973, coming soon!
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