by Mika Waltari · Putnam
Set in Egypt, more than a thousand years before Christ, it encompasses all of the then-known world. It is told by Sinhue, physician to the Pharaoh Akhenaton, and is the story of his life. Through his eyes are seen innumerable characters, fully drawn and covering the whole panorama of the ancient world.
by John O'Hara · Random House
'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.
by Marguerite Steen · Doubleday
Matt Flood's grandson goes to the Gold Coast and is in the Ashanti War.
by Nelson Algren · Doubleday
A novel about a young drug addict and his daily encounters as he pursues his eternal quest for means to support his habit.
by Paul Gallico · Knopf
Against the backdrop of World War II, a friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
