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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 8, 1976

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TRINITY
Leon Uris
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TRINITY

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

36 wks at #1 · 20 on list

Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.

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THE DEEP
Peter Benchley
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THE DEEP

by Peter Benchley · Doubleday

11 wks on list

While scuba diving off the Bermuda coast, David and Gail Sanders locate a Spanish treasure ship, which unfortunately lies beneath the remains of another vessel that sank carrying a cargo of morphine.

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DOLORES
Jacqueline Susann
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DOLORES

by Jacqueline Susann · Morrow

4 wks on list

The tragic story of Dolores Ryan, the beautiful and fashionable young widow of an assassinated American President. After his death, Dolores finds herself too poor to sustain her extravagant tastes and too lonely to be fulfilled as a woman. The novel details her quest for money and for men.

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CROWNED HEADS
Thomas Tryon

CROWNED HEADS

by Thomas Tryon · Knopf

5 wks on list
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1876
Gore Vidal
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NEW
TOUCH NOT THE CAT
Mary Stewart
Cover of TOUCH NOT THE CAT

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