Hardcover Fiction

by John Phillips Marquand · Little, Brown and Company

by Hamilton Basso · Doubleday and Co., Inc

by Mac Hyman · Random House, Inc

by Francoise Sagan · E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc

by Irving Stone · Doubleday

A sympathetic portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. The author pictures her marriage to Abraham Lincoln as a great love story.

by Anya Seton · Houghton Mifflin

This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history-- that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets-- Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II-- who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king's son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday and Co. Inc

by Don M. Mankiewicz · Harper & Row

A novel about a Mexican youth tried for raping and killing a white girl and the ugly politicization of the case.

by Laurens Van Der Post · William Morrow and Company

by Marguerite Yourcenar · Farrar, Straus and Young

by Alice Tisdale Hobart · Longman's, Green and Co

Aided by a family friend in Hong Kong, David Conway enters China illegally to rescue the successor in his job now being held prisoner by the Communists, only to have Mu San, son of his mentor, turn traitor, and betray not only David, the hated American, but his father and the intricate network of the underground. David manages to escape, is captured, escapes again, and undertakes a perilous journey with guerillas across China.

by Morton Thompson · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Ernest Kellogg Gann · W. Sloane Associates

by Patrick Dennis · Vanguard Press

by Helen MacInnes · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown and Company

Now a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, The Good Shepherd is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.