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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 5, 1973

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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
Kurt Vonnegut
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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

by Kurt Vonnegut · Delacorte Press

10 wks at #1 · 13 on list

Aging science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

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ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH
Jacqueline Susann
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ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH

by Jacqueline Susann · William Morrow and Company

18 wks on list

Following its new edition of Jackie Susann's "Valley of the Dolls", Grove Press is proud to reissue a classic novel in the author's pantheon of pop-culture mythologies. "Once Is Not Enough" recounts the colorful life of luscious January Wayne who "can't make it with a guy because she has a thing for her glamorous celebrity dad, Mike" ("Library Journal").

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THE HOLLOW HILLS
Mary Stewart
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THE MATLOCK PAPER
Robert Ludlum
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THE MATLOCK PAPER

by Robert Ludlum · Dial Press

The US government has a deadly assignment - and James Matlock is the perfect man for the job. James Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor - with a disturbing past. The faceless men in Washington know his secrets. And they want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale drugs and prostitution business. Matlock is given a piece of silver paper with codes on it, and the name of the criminal organisation: Nimrod. He is soon trapped in a maze of unrelenting terror, as the people he cares for most are under threat. Would he have accepted the job if he'd known just what it would mean? Or that disclosure of the truth could cause such horror?

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