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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 23, 1964

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THE GROUP
Mary McCarthy
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THE GROUP

by Mary McCarthy · Harcourt, Brace and World

25 wks on list

Eight Vassar girls, determined not to be like Mother, decide to move with the times and put into action the ideas they have learned about in college.

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THE HAT ON THE BED
John O'Hara
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THE HAT ON THE BED

by John O'Hara · Random House

12 wks on list

A collection of 24 hitherto uncollected stories.

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THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL
John Cheever
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THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL

by John Cheever · Harper & Row

5 wks on list

Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity.

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CARAVANS
James Michener
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CARAVANS

by James Michener · Random House

29 wks on list

To the mountain fastness of Afghanistan comes Mark Miller, an American diplomat attached to the Embassy in Kabul. He is investigating the disappearance of Ellen Jasper, an independent young woman in search of the freedom offered by the wildest and weirdest land on earth.

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ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
Ian Fleming
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ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

by Ian Fleming · New American Library

24 wks on list

James Bond 007 is back! Bond is approached by a crime boss to marry his daughter and in return both father and daughter help 007 hunt for his archenemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.

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THE LIVING REED
Pearl S. Buck
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THE LIVING REED

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

20 wks on list

Donated.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.