Hardcover Fiction

by Colleen McCullough · Harper & Row

by Paul E. Erdman · Simon & Schuster

by John D. MacDonald · J.B. Lippincott Company

Condo residents' dreams of a luxurious life in the Florida Keys are shattered by an approaching hurricane and by Martin Liss, a greedy, indifferent developer who victimizes the residents with continuing price increases.

by John Cheever · Knopf

by Erich Segal · Harper & Row

by Richard Bach · Delacorte/Eleanor Friede

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

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.

by Robert Ludlum · Dial Press

by Robin Cook · Little, Brown

Robin Cook is the author -- and Coma is the book -- for which the term "medical thriller" was first used. It's a spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the committed young medical student who brings it to light. The surgery was routine -- the kind performed many times a day at Boston's most prestigious hospital. The teams that worked in OR;t make up for what was happening around them. Several patients, admitted to the hospital for minor surgery, never awoke. For some inexplicable reason, their brains had been destroyed

by Joan Didion · Simon & Schuster

An engrossing novel about political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.