Hardcover Fiction

by James Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

Roman.

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday

Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by James A. Michener · Random House

by F. Van Wyck Mason · Lippincott

by Francis Cardinal Spellman · Charles Scribner's Sons

A baby, left in a cathedral, is befriended by a veteran and becomes a musician.

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

The golden hawk is a pulsating novel of adventure, revenge and exotic love in the West Indies of the seventeenth century, when the might of imperial Spain was making its last great stand to retain its conquests in the New World. A woman called Fancy is the author's first novel to have a female protagonist. Set in Augusta, Georgia, the novel covers the period from 1880 to 1894 and shows the rise of the heroine, a beautiful South Carolina woman, from poverty to prominence among Augusta's aristocrats.

by Irwin Shaw · Random House

Director of radio program is asked to fire five characters because Fascists suspect them of Communism.

by Lion Feuchtwanger · Viking Press

by J.B. Priestley · Harper and Brothers

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

Joy Street is Frances Parkinson Keyes' sweeping novel of love, ambition, and social intrigue set against the elegant backdrop of Boston's historic Beacon Hill. With her characteristic attention to detail and flair for richly textured storytelling, Keyes introduces readers to a cast of characters whose lives intertwine in a world where old money, new aspirations, and deeply held traditions collide. At the heart of the story is a young couple navigating the shifting tides of postwar America, balancing personal dreams with the rigid expectations of Boston society. Joy Street itself becomes both a setting and a symbol—a place of refined beauty and social prestige, but also a stage for the quiet dramas of love, betrayal, and self-discovery. Through dinner parties, political maneuverings, and intimate domestic moments, Keyes explores themes of class, loyalty, and the price of belonging. Her prose is elegant yet accessible, capturing both the grace of the city's historic homes and the subtle tensions beneath their polished surfaces. As in her other works, Keyes' mastery lies in her ability to weave personal relationships into the fabric of a vividly rendered time and place. Joy Street is both a romance and a social study, offering a window into a rarefied world while reminding readers of the universal human desires that transcend class and custom.

by Lillian Budd · J. B. Lippincott

by Harnett T. Kane and Victor Leclerc · Julian Messner Inc

Scandalous love affair of an American minister's daughter and the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia in the 1870's and 1880's.

by Reginald Arkell · Harcourt, Brace and Company

by Ilka Chase · Doubleday

by James Street · Doubleday

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

Novel about the sons of missionaries, which sweeps from China to America and England and from the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 to the critical struggles of 1950.