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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of June 2, 1968

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AIRPORT
Arthur Hailey
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AIRPORT

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

30 wks at #1 · 10 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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TOPAZ
Leon Uris
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TOPAZ

by Leon Uris · McGraw-Hill

36 wks on list
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VANISHED
Fletcher Knebel
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VANISHED

by Fletcher Knebel · Doubleday

19 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

32 wks on list

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

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TESTIMONY OF TWO MEN
Taylor Caldwell
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TESTIMONY OF TWO MEN

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

3 wks on list

Someday the town of Hambledon might forget the lies they told about their brilliant young doctor. But they could never forgive the truths he told about them. From this compelling story of a doctor at war with the world he has been taught to heal, Taylor Caldwell has fashioned a novel of an unforgettable, angry idealist -- a novel in which the drama of new medical frontiers becomes part of a sweeping chronicle of love, death, desire, and redemption.

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CHRISTY
Catherine Marshall
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CHRISTY

by Catherine Marshall · McGraw-Hill

31 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.

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