Hardcover Fiction

by Colleen McCullough · Harper & Row

by Richard Bach · Delacorte/Eleanor Friede

by J.R.R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron.

by Paul E. Erdman · Simon & Schuster

by Robert S. Elegant · McGraw-Hill

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 Anais Nin · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Escritos a principios de la década de 1940 por encargo de un excéntrico coleccionista de libros que insistía en pedir «menos poesía» y descripciones más explícitas en las escenas sexuales, los relatos de Delta de Venus no vieron la luz hasta los años 1970. Ambientados en torno al París de la época e hilados por la aparición recurrente de personajes comunes de distinta importancia según cada cuento, ofrecen una visión libre de las relaciones humanas, en la que el erotismo y el ansia de placer no excluyen ni la belleza ni el sentimiento, ni la amistad ni la búsqueda de la autenticidad.

by Dorothy Uhnak · Simon & Schuster

by Lawrence Sanders · Putnam's

When a New York artist is found stabbed to death, ex-Chief of Detectives Delaney begins an investigation.

by William Safire · Doubleday

by Erich Segal · Harper & Row

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 Susan Howatch · Simon & Schuster

by John Cheever · Knopf

by John Fowles · Little, Brown

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIAN FELLOWES After graduating from Oxford, Daniel Martin moved to America and successfully pursued the dreams of many: he became a Hollywood screenwriter. But, as the years go by, Daniel grows more and more unsatisfied with the life he once coveted and the person he has become. Now Daniel has been called back to England to reconcile with a dying friend, but finds that he must also reconcile with the past and with himself. 'I find it disastrous to read any of John Fowles' books - once I pick one up, I cannot put it down so everything else gets ignored!' Judi Dench, Daily Express 'An instant masterpiece. It is a tour de force of stamina and subtlety' Daily Telegraph