Hardcover Fiction

by Boris Pasternak · Random House

by Vladimir Nabokov · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

by John O'Hara · Random House

by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick · W.W. Norton and Company

The multi-million-copy bestseller that blends truth and fiction in a “devastating indictment of American policy” (New York Times Book Review). A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular “ugly American”—and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors who ignore his empathetic and commonsense advice. In linked stories and vignettes set in the fictional nation of Sarkhan, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick draw an incisive portrait of American foreign policy gone dangerously wrong—and how it might be fixed. Eerily relevant sixty years after its initial publication, The Ugly American reminds us that “today, as the battle for hearts and minds has shifted to the Middle East, we still can’t speak Sarkhanese” (New York Times).

by Patrick Dennis · Harcourt, Brace and Company

A series of episodes about young and frisky Mame in 1937.

by Romain Gary · Simon & Schuster

by Paul Gallico · Doubleday and Company, Inc

The story of a charwoman's visit to Paris.

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

by Evan Connell · Viking Press

by Robert Traver · St. Martin's

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown and Company

by Robin White · Harper and Brothers

by Samuel H. Adams · Random House

by Rona Jaffe · Simon & Schuster

When it first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe's debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There's Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor's office; naive country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Now a classic, and as page-turning as when it first came out, The Best of Everything portrays their lives and passions with intelligence, affection, and prose as sharp as a paper cut. Includes a foreword by the author.

by Truman Capote · Random House

Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.