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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 6, 1972

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THE WINDS OF WAR
Herman Wouk
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THE WINDS OF WAR

by Herman Wouk · Little, Brown

21 wks at #1 · 11 on list
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WHEELS
Arthur Hailey
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WHEELS

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

19 wks on list
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THE EXORCIST
William Peter Blatty
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THE EXORCIST

by William Peter Blatty · Harper & Row

34 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

12 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.

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