The 1970s saw the publication of several books by Anninsky, among them "Betrothed to the Idea" (on Nikolai Ostrovsky’s "How the Steel Was Tempered", 1971) and "Vasily Shukshin" (1976). Anninsky's books of the 1980s included "The Leo Hunters (Lev Tolstoy in cinema)", 1980, 1989; "Leskovian Necklace" (1982, 1885), "Contacts" (1982), "Branches Full of Sunlight" (a study on Lithuanian photography, 1984), "Nikolai Gubenko" (1986) and "The Three Heretics" (1988).