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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of March 27, 1977

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TRINITY
Leon Uris
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TRINITY

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

36 wks at #1 · 53 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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VOYAGE
Sterling Hayden
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VOYAGE

by Sterling Hayden · Putnam's

8 wks on list

A magnificent epic of the sea and a dynamic portrait of turn-of-the-century America. Publishers Weekly

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THE SHINING
Stephen King
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THE SHINING

by Stephen King · Doubleday

1 wks on list

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel’s dark secrets begin to unravel. “An undisputed master of suspense and terror.” —The Washington Post Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

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STORM WARNING
Jack Higgins
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STORM WARNING

by Jack Higgins · Holt, Rinehart & Winston

25 wks on list

During World War II, a group of German expatriates trapped in Brazil must sail across five thousand miles of tempestuous water to reach their homeland--and face the deadly barricade of American and British military power.

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