Hardcover Fiction

by Robert Crichton · Simon & Schuster

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

Uses characters and settings from Advise and consent and A shade of difference.

by Jacqueline Susann · Random House

Three beautiful women compete in the New York entertainment world, where sex is a weapon and nearly everyone depends on "dolls" (pills).

by Rebecca West · Viking Press

by Mary Renault · Pantheon

by Edwin O'Connor · Little, Brown and Company

by Jan de Hartog · Charles Scribner's Sons

by James Clavell · Atheneum

by Bernard Malamud · Farrar, Straud and Giroux

by John O'Hara · Random House

Twenty-one new stories, including four of novella length.