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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of April 27, 1980

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PRINCESS DAISY
Judith Krantz
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THE BLEEDING HEART
Marilyn French
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THE BLEEDING HEART

by Marilyn French · Summit

5 wks on list

A love story for and about adults, it speaks to the hearts and minds of women and men everywhere. Dolores and Victor are both both successful, both Americans living alone in England. They meet and fall instantly in love, only to discover they agree on nothing. From the start they know they have only one year together. Their affair is sometimes bitter, always passionate, and, in the end, an extraordinary revelation for them both. "A monumental achievement." -- Cosmopolitan

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SMILEY'S PEOPLE
John le Carré
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SMILEY'S PEOPLE

by John le Carré · Knopf

19 wks on list

Its an emergency, George. You remember Vladimir? George, are you awake? You remember the old General? The phone call that dragged George Smiley, acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it. An old acquaintance shot dead on Hampstead Heath, an old woman in Paris promised the return of a daughter shell never see, a photograph taken in a Hamburg brothel - and George Smiley is called out of retirement ... SMILEYS PEOPLE has all the le Carr touches Sunday Telegraph

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WHO'S ON FIRST
William F. Buckley Jr
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WHO'S ON FIRST

by William F. Buckley Jr · Doubleday

6 wks on list

Suspense: Blackford Oakes' new assignment is to delay a Soviet space shot.

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PORTRAITS
Cynthia Freeman
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BACK BAY
William Martin
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BACK BAY

by William Martin · Crown

1 wks on list

The powerful Pratts have searched for generations for a lost family possession--a breathtaking Paul Revere treasure. A centuries-spanning tale of romance, greed, lust, and murder reissued to tie-in with the paperback release of Martin's latest bestseller Cape Cod, featured above.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.