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Hardcover Fiction

Week of September 19, 1976

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TRINITY
Leon Uris
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TRINITY

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

36 wks at #1 · 26 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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DOLORES
Jacqueline Susann
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DOLORES

by Jacqueline Susann · Morrow

10 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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TOUCH NOT THE CAT
Mary Stewart
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ORDINARY PEOPLE
Judith Guest
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THE DEEP
Peter Benchley
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THE DEEP

by Peter Benchley · Doubleday

17 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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CROWNED HEADS
Thomas Tryon

CROWNED HEADS

by Thomas Tryon · Knopf

11 wks on list
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THE GOLDEN GATE
Alistair MacLean
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THE GOLDEN GATE

by Alistair MacLean · Doubleday

2 wks on list

An ingenious, puzzlingly motivated megalomaniac and his hand-chosen, professional cohorts hold the President of the United States, two Arab potentates, and a motorcade of reporters in the middle of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, demanding an exorbita

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