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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 5, 1934

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THE THIN MAN
Dashiell Hammett
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THE THIN MAN

by Dashiell Hammett · Knopf

4 wks on list

Nick and Nora, husband and wife, become involved in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a wealthy, eccentric inventer who is the prime suspect in a brutal New York City murder case.

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MEN AGAINST THE SEA
Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall

MEN AGAINST THE SEA

by Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall · Little, Brown

4 wks on list

James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887-1947) an English-born American novelist and traveler. Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became "The Bounty Trilogy," which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.

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ULYSSES
James Joyce
Cover of ULYSSES

ULYSSES

by James Joyce · Random

1 wks on list

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.