TheBestseller
Observatory

Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of January 27, 1936

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IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
Sinclair Lewis
Cover of IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

by Sinclair Lewis · Doubleday, Doran

14 wks on list

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

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FLOATING PERIL
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Cover of FLOATING PERIL

FLOATING PERIL

by E. Phillips Oppenheim · Little, Brown

3 wks on list

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 - 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. He wrote more than 100 novels between 1887 and 1943. "Floating Peril" was first published serially in "The New York Post" under the title "The Story Without a Title" in 1935.

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EUROPA
Robert Briffault
Cover of EUROPA

EUROPA

by Robert Briffault · Scribner

20 wks on list
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CAREER
Phil Stong
Cover of CAREER

CAREER

by Phil Stong · Harcourt, Brace

"Life of a country store-keeper in an Iowa town." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

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