Hardcover Fiction

by Boris Pasternak · Random House

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

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 Vladimir Nabokov · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by John O'Hara · Random House

by Paul Gallico · Doubleday and Company, Inc

The story of a charwoman's visit to Paris.

by Romain Gary · Simon & Schuster

by Edmund Schiddel · Simon & Schuster

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

by Samuel H. Adams · Random House

by Evan Connell · Viking Press

by Patrick Dennis · Harcourt, Brace and Company

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

by Mary Stewart · M.S. Mill/William Morrow

by Saul Bellow · Viking Press

by Hugh MacLennan · Charles Scribner's Sons

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martell, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday