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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of October 21, 1945

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THE BLACK ROSE
Thomas B. Costain

THE BLACK ROSE

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday

17 wks at #1 · 6 on list

Walter of Gurnie, bastard son of an English peer, is forced to flee from Oxford for his part in the university riots of 1273. Inspired by Friar Bacon, he determines to travel to China. With his friend Tristam, he fights his way to the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire, and returns famous, to find that he must choose between the first love he thought lost and the exotic flower that he found in the East.

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THREE O'CLOCK DINNER
Josephine Pinckney
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THREE O'CLOCK DINNER

by Josephine Pinckney · Viking Press

2 wks on list

Strife between Charleston families fails to prevent intermarriage.

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CASS TIMBERLANE
Sinclair Lewis
Cover of CASS TIMBERLANE

CASS TIMBERLANE

by Sinclair Lewis · Random House

1 wks on list

Marriage of a judge and his unstable young wife in a small Minnesota town.

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