Hardcover Fiction

by Herman Wouk · Little, Brown

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

by Ruth Beebe Hill · Doubleday

by Len Deighton · Knopf

A fictional account of what might have happened if the Nazis had invaded and defeated England during World War II.

by John Cheever · Knopf

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.

by Lucian K. Truscott IV · Doubleday

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.

by Bernard Malamud · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

by John Updike · Knopf

by Morris West · Morrow

by Robert Ludlum · Richard Marek

The Matarese Circle are the Corsican Brotherhood. Terrifying killers, their power could plunge the world into chaos and destruction within two years. Only two rival spies - and one mysterious woman - can stop them. Brandon Scofield, CIA, and the West's most professional assassin, and Vasili Taleniekov, former KGB, now wanted by the Politburo. They share a genius for espionage - and a life of terror and explosive violence. Sworn enemies, Scofield and Taleniekov have vowed to terminate each other, but now they must become allies. Because only they possess the brutal skills and ice-cold nerves vital to destroy an international circle of killers: the Matarese...

by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press

by Lawrence Sanders · Putnam's

by Joseph Heller · Simon & Schuster

by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin

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.