Hardcover Fiction

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Judith Krantz · Crown

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

by Robert Ludlum · Putnam's/Richard Marek

by John Irving · Dutton/Henry Robbins

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with lunacy and sorrow, yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

by William F. Buckley Jr · Doubleday

by Anton Myrer · Putnam's

After five Harvard students share a car in 1938, they continue to stay in touch through the war, their marriages, and their times as parents.

by Ken Follett · Arbor House

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 Graham Greene · Simon & Schuster

by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press

by Marilyn French · Summit

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND BESTSELLING NOVELS OF THE MODERN FEMINIST MOVEMENT 'It was about the need to change things from top to bottom; it was a declaration of independence' OBSERVER 'The first and last international bestseller of the women's movement' GUARDIAN 'They said this book would change lives - and it certainly changed mine' JENNI MURRAY, BBC RADIO 4 A landmark in feminist literature, The Women's Room is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. It follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.

by James Carroll · Little, Brown

by Mary Gordon · Random House