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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of May 19, 1968

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AIRPORT
Arthur Hailey
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AIRPORT

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

30 wks at #1 · 8 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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COUPLES
John Updike
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VANISHED
Fletcher Knebel
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VANISHED

by Fletcher Knebel · Doubleday

17 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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TOPAZ
Leon Uris
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TOPAZ

by Leon Uris · McGraw-Hill

34 wks on list
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CHRISTY
Catherine Marshall
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CHRISTY

by Catherine Marshall · McGraw-Hill

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

by William Styron · Random House

30 wks on list

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

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THE TRIUMPH
John Kenneth Galbraith
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THE TRIUMPH

by John Kenneth Galbraith · Houghton Mifflin

3 wks on list

First published in 1968, this satirical tale of political rebellion and U.S. intervention in a small Latin American country ... Inept leadership and fear of communism are perceived driving forces behind the folly of foreign policy of the time.

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