Hardcover Fiction

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown

by Sholem Asch · Putnam

by Russell Janney · Prentice Hall

by Frederic Wakeman · Rinehart. & Company

by Arthur Koestler · Macmillan

by Taylor Caldwell · Scribner

by Charles Jackson · Rinehart and Company

The Fall of Valor is an unflinching portrayal of a marriage that has faded to a mere duty. John and Ethel Grandin take a summer vacation to Nantucket with the hope of recapturing the happiness they felt in the early days of their relationship. But instead the holiday blasts their marriage wider apart than ever when John falls hopelessly in love with a handsome marine captain.

by Pat Frank · Lippincott

by Mary O'Hara · Lippincott

by John Jennings · Doubleday

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard · Macmillan

by Thomas Heggen · Houghton Mifflin

The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Reluctant, that sails, as written in the play, "from apathy to tedium with occasional side trips to monotony and ennui." This irreverent, often hilarious story about the crew of the Reluctant has enjoyed wide and enduring popularity. It was subsequently adapted as a play, a feature film, a television series, and a television movie. The film version with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon is one of the most well-known movies of WWII.

by Inglis Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

Angela Ferrier is passionately in love with a British spy and a colonial staff officer during the American Revolution

by Jan Westcott · Crown

Historical romance retelling the story of the adventures of the Earl of Bothwell.

by Mazo De La Roche · Little, Brown