TheBestseller
Observatory

Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 26, 1935

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LUCY GAYHEART
Willa Cather
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LUCY GAYHEART

by Willa Cather · Knopf

4 wks at #1 · 3 on list
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OF TIME AND THE RIVER
Thomas Wolfe
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OF TIME AND THE RIVER

by Thomas Wolfe · Scribner

24 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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ILLYRIAN SPRING
Ann Bridge
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ILLYRIAN SPRING

by Ann Bridge · Little, Brown

2 wks on list

As a wife and mother of three, Lady Kilmichael felt her task in the home was finished. As the artist Grace Stanway, she was well-known and successful in her own right. The question now was whether her home or her career would predominate.

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