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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 24, 1936

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THE LAST PURITAN
George Santayana
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THE LAST PURITAN

by George Santayana · Scribner

11 wks at #1 · 3 on list
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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

18 wks on list

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

5
NEW
FLOATING PERIL
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Cover of FLOATING PERIL

FLOATING PERIL

by E. Phillips Oppenheim · Little, Brown

6 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.

6
NEW
FASTER! FASTER!
E. M. Delafield

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