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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of March 18, 1979

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OVERLOAD
Arthur Hailey
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OVERLOAD

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

2 wks at #1 · 8 on list
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THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER
John Cheever
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THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER

by John Cheever · Knopf

13 wks on list

This collection of Cheever's short fiction features the Swimmer, The enormous radio, The housebreaker of Shady Hill and fifty-eight other stories written and published over the past three decades.

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DRESS GRAY
Lucian K. Truscott IV
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DRESS GRAY

by Lucian K. Truscott IV · Doubleday

4 wks on list

When the body of a West Point cadet is found in a nearby lake, the academy's statement is startling at odds with what his best friend knows to be true. With the big brass on his back and a minefield ahead of him, he sets out to uncover what West Point will do anything to hide. It could cost him his career as well as his life.

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SECOND GENERATION
Howard Fast
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SECOND GENERATION

by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin

24 wks on list

This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.

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THE COUP
John Updike
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THE COUP

by John Updike · Knopf

11 wks on list
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FOOLS DIE
Mario Puzo
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FOOLS DIE

by Mario Puzo · Putnam's

24 wks on list
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HANTA YO
Ruth Beebe Hill
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Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.