1979 American novels

1979 novel by Stephen King

The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot follows the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight years before his first published novel, Carrie, was released in 1974.

1979 novel by William Styron

novel by V. C. Andrews

1979 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1979 novel by Norman Mailer

1979 science fiction novel by John Varley

1979 novel by Larry Niven

novel by Joseph Heller

novel by Trevanian

1979 thriller novel by Roderick Thorp

1979 novel by Peter Straub

1979 novel by Gustav Hasford

novel by Philip José Farmer

novel by Robert Ludlum

1987 film by Fred Walton

1979 novel by Robin Cook

Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979. Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, over a four-year period starting in 1950, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River.

1979 novella by William S. Burroughs

novel by Philip Roth

1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler

1979 novel by Orson Scott Card

1979 novel by Tim Powers