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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of April 12, 1937

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THEATRE
Somerset Maugham
Cover of THEATRE

THEATRE

by Somerset Maugham · Doubleday, Doran

5 wks at #1 · 5 on list
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WE ARE NOT ALONE
James Hilton

WE ARE NOT ALONE

by James Hilton · Little, Brown

4 wks on list

The life of a skillful English doctor is shattered because of a German girl he befriends.

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OF MICE AND MEN
John Steinbeck
Cover of OF MICE AND MEN

OF MICE AND MEN

by John Steinbeck · Covici, Friede

6 wks on list

THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the fat of the land, have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerousl

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