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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of April 21, 1968

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AIRPORT
Arthur Hailey
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AIRPORT

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

30 wks at #1 · 4 on list

Set in Lincoln International Airpot, this novel portrays several airport hours during a midwinter snowstorm and the men and women who share them.

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VANISHED
Fletcher Knebel
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VANISHED

by Fletcher Knebel · Doubleday

13 wks on list

"The baffling Greer case hit the front pages of the national press and stayed there, as rumors, speculations, accusations, and bizarre plots were paraded before a puzzled and avid public. How could a prominent Washington attorney and top aide to the President of the United States during a contentious re-election campaign simply vanish?"--Goodreads

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THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER
William Styron
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THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

by William Styron · Random House

27 wks on list

Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.

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TOPAZ
Leon Uris
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TOPAZ

by Leon Uris · McGraw-Hill

30 wks on list
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CHRISTY
Catherine Marshall
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CHRISTY

by Catherine Marshall · McGraw-Hill

25 wks on list

Christy is the book that inspired the CBS television series by the same name. It is the story of a young girl who came to teach in the impoverished Smokies and how her faith conquered her primitive surroundings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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COUPLES
John Updike

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