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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of November 28, 1971

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WHEELS
Arthur Hailey
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WHEELS

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

9 wks on list
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THE EXORCIST
William Peter Blatty
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THE EXORCIST

by William Peter Blatty · Harper & Row

24 wks on list

Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan'Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us'.The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in

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OUR GANG
Philip Roth
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OUR GANG

by Philip Roth · Random House

2 wks on list

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang" "is Philip Roth' s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn' t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.

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THE DRIFTERS
James A. Michener
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THE DRIFTERS

by James A. Michener · Random House

22 wks on list

A Corgi original, this novel is among a group of Michener's books which have been re-issued with new jackets. His other publications include Hawaii, Centennial, Texas, Chesapeake, The Source and Space.

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THEIRS WAS THE KINGDOM
R.F. Delderfield
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THEIRS WAS THE KINGDOM

by R.F. Delderfield · Simon & Schuster

The second book in R.F. Delderfield's Swann family saga. Adam Swann's expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale. Alex, his elder son, is a professional solder; George is a pioneer of the motor industry and his adopted daughter Deborah works to uncover the terrible injustices facing working-class women. The great edifice of the British Empire is beginning to crumble, and as the gap between prosperity and poverty widens Victorian England can no longer afford to be complacent . . .

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