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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of November 2, 1975

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RAGTIME
E. L. Doctorow
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RAGTIME

by E. L. Doctorow · Random House

13 wks at #1 · 14 on list
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CURTAIN
Agatha Christie
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CURTAIN

by Agatha Christie · Dodd, Mead

5 wks on list

One of Christie's last published novels, and perhaps Hercule Poirot's most controversial investigation, this stunner from the Queen of Crime isn't just a mystery...it made history.

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HUMBOLDT'S GIFT
Saul Bellow
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HUMBOLDT'S GIFT

by Saul Bellow · Viking Press

9 wks on list

Een filosofisch ingestelde Joods-Amerikaanse schrijver vestigt zich uit nostalgie in Chicago, zijn geboortestad en komt daar door een literaire erfenis in aanraking met tegenstrijdige krachten

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CIRCUS
Alistair MacLean

CIRCUS

by Alistair MacLean · Doubleday

10 wks on list

It takes a five-man circus act with a psychic tightrope artist to get in and out of an East European prison safely.

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SHOGUN
James Clavell

SHOGUN

by James Clavell · Atheneum

16 wks on list
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Michael Crichton
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

by Michael Crichton · Knopf

19 wks on list

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

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