1976 in literature

See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• 1876 - Gore Vidal
• The Alteration - Kingsley Amis
• Blubber - Judy Blume
• The Canadian Establishment - Peter C. Newman
• The Dark Side of the Sun - Terry Pratchett
• The Deep - Peter Benchley
• Dolores - Jacqueline Susann
• Falstaff - Robert Nye
• The Final Days - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
• Flight To Canada - Ishmael Reed
• The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank - Erma Bombeck
• Infants of the Spring - Anthony Powell
• Inferno - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Just An Old Sweet Song - Melvin Van Peebles
• Ordinary People - Judith Guest
• El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman) - Manuel Puig
• A Piece of My Heart - Richard Ford
• Roots - Alex Haley
• Slapstick or Lonesome No More! - Kurt Vonnegut
• Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
• A Stranger in the Mirror - Sidney Sheldon
• The Sunflower - Simon Wiesenthal
• The Takeover - Muriel Spark
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
• To Jerusalem and Back - Saul Bellow
• Trinity - Leon Uris
• Triton - Samuel R. Delany