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 Romain Gary · Simon & Schuster

by Patrick Dennis · Harcourt, Brace and Company

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

by Paul Gallico · Doubleday and Company, Inc

The story of a charwoman's visit to Paris.

by Evan Connell · Viking Press

by Edmund Schiddel · Simon & Schuster

A satirical novel about the monied class living along the Delaware River.

by Robert Traver · St. Martin's

by Samuel H. Adams · Random House

by Mary Renault · Pantheon

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

by Robin White · Harper and Brothers

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.