



TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
by Harper Lee · J.B. Lippincott Company
Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

MIDCENTURY
by John Dos Passos · Houghton, Mifflin
Billede af vor tid sammenstillede af autentiske beretninger, biografier og noveller

CHINA COURT
by Rumer Godden · Viking Press
Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot.

DON'T TELL ALFRED
by Nancy Mitford · Harper and Brothers
Fanny Wincham copes with crises among her friends and relations when her husband, now Sir Alfred, is unexpectedly appointed ambassador to Paris. Follows "Love in a cold climate" and "The pursuit of love."


HEAVEN HAS NO FAVORITES
by Erich Maria Remarque · Harcourt, Brace and World
Tensions and problems of life in a tuberculosis sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps, and the tragic love story of a vivacious girl and a grand prix race-track driver.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.






