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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of April 16, 1944

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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
Betty Smith
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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

by Betty Smith · Harper

34 wks on list

Francie Nolan and her brother, Neeley, grow up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.

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A BELL FOR ADANO
John Hersey
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THE STEEP ASCENT
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

THE STEEP ASCENT

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh · Harcourt, Brace

Ordeal of a pregnant wife, flying in a two-seater with her English husband, a member of the Schneider Cup team and daring flyer, on their way from England across the Alps to Italy. Her mind lulled by the motor, she relives her life in reverie.

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