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The Stand
1978 novel by Stephen King

The Turner Diaries
novel by William Luther Pierce

The World According to Garp
1978 novel by John Irving

Women
1978 novel by Charles Bukowski
A Contract with God
graphic novel by Will Eisner

Dreamsnake
Dreamsnake is a 1978 science fiction novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre. It is an expansion of her 1973 novelette "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand", for which she won her first Nebula Award in 1974. The story is set on Earth after a nuclear holocaust. The central character, Snake, is a healer who uses genetically modified serpents to cure sickness—one snake is an alien "dreamsnake", whose venom gives dying people pleasant dreams. The novel follows Snake as she seeks to replace her dreamsnake after its death.

Fools Die
1978 novel by Mario Puzo

The Courts of Chaos
1978 novel by Roger Zelazny
Requiem for a Dream
novel Hubert Selby Jr.

Birdy
novel by William Wharton

Splinter of the Mind's Eye
1978 Star Wars novel by Alan Dean Foster

Dinosaur Planet
1978 novel by Anne McCaffrey

The Eye of the Heron
1978 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wanderground
1979 novel by Sally Miller Gearhart

Now and Forever
1978 novel by Danielle Steel

Up the Walls of the World
1978 science fiction novel by James Tiptree Jr.

Stormqueen!
Stormqueen! is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of the Darkover series. Originally published in 1978, it was republished in 2002 as part of the Ages of Chaos omnibus.