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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of May 20, 1935

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NOW IN NOVEMBER
Josephine Johnson
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NOW IN NOVEMBER

by Josephine Johnson · Simon & Schuster

3 wks at #1 · 2 on list

"One tragic year on a Missouri farm." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

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OF TIME AND THE RIVER
Thomas Wolfe
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OF TIME AND THE RIVER

by Thomas Wolfe · Scribner

10 wks on list

The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe.

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NATIONAL VELVET
Enid Bagnold
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A FEW FOOLISH ONES
Gladys Hasty Carroll
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A FEW FOOLISH ONES

by Gladys Hasty Carroll · Macmillan

2 wks on list

Treats of the lives of intermarrying Maine farmers from the 1870's to the 1930's.

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