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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of October 28, 1935

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EUROPA
Robert Briffault
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EUROPA

by Robert Briffault · Scribner

9 wks at #1 · 7 on list
3
NEW
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
Sinclair Lewis
Cover of IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

by Sinclair Lewis · Doubleday, Doran

1 wks on list

A dark satire about the rise of a fascist American dictator.

6
NEW
BUTTERFIELD 8
John O'Hara
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BUTTERFIELD 8

by John O'Hara · Harcourt, Brace

1 wks on list

Set amid Manhattan's fast set in the early 1930s, Butterfield 8 is the tale of an abrupt and destructive sexual affair between a respectably married society man and a wild and tragically corrupted young girl, that tears both their lives apart.

8
NEW
GREEN RUSHES
Maurice Walsh

GREEN RUSHES

by Maurice Walsh · Stokes

A novel on the Easter Rising of 1916 and the subsequent unrest in 1920-23, ephasizing the IRA's struggle with the Black and Tans, a group recruited by the British to deal with the Irish uprising.

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