1972 in literature

See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• August 1914 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Captains and the Kings - Taylor Caldwell
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
• Die the Long Day - Horace Orlando Patterson
• Endurance - James L Harris
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
• The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
• The Great Bridge - David McCullough
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
• Lady of Quality ? Georgette Heyer
• The Manticore - Robertson Davies
• My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
• The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
• The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum
• The Politics of Jesus - John Howard Yoder
• Semi-Tough - Dan Jenkins
• Two from Galilee - Marjorie Holmes
• The Word - Irving Wallace
• Watership Down - Richard Adams