September 18, 1972 - Connie Goldman reviews Vance Packard's latest book "A Nation of Strangers" which discusses the increasing number of isolated and lonely individuals in a highly mobile society, and the chaos caused by big business moving employees all over the globe. In an interview, when Packard was in town recently, Goldman asked him why he didn't challenge the audience with questions about alienation instead of telling jokes and anecdotes.
March 14, 1979 - A book review of "Reefer Madness: The History of Marijuana in America" by Larry Sloman.
March 28, 1979 - A news feature presenting review on John J. Koblas' book, A Guide to F Scott Fitzgerald's St Paul: A Traveler's Companion to His Homes & Haunts.
April 4, 1979 - On this segment of People on Books, author Melita Denning (Vivian Godfrey), of St. Paul’s Gnostica Magazine and Bookstore, reviews "Atlantis, Fact or Fiction?" Title was edited by Edward S. Ramage.
April 27, 1979 - Former Minnesota governor Elmer L. Andersen reviews the book The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate by Maurice H. Stans.
May 23, 1979 - Ann Payson reviews the Jack Higgins book Day of Judgment.
June 29, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Jeffrey Barnes reviews Betty Jean Lifton’s book Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience.
August 10, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Daphne Krause, president of the Minneapolis Age and Opportunity Center, reviews the book Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years by Gay Gaer Luce.
August 15, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Paul Anderson, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, reviews Everybody's Money Book by Jane Bryant Quinn.
August 17, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Bob Muscala, former administrator of drug programs at the University of Minnesota, reviews Windward Passage: A Novel by Mark Brewer.