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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of April 12, 1987

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WINDMILLS OF THE GODS
Sidney Sheldon
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WINDMILLS OF THE GODS

by Sidney Sheldon · Morrow

10 wks on list

Mary Ashley, the young newly appointed U.S. ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, becomes the target of an international cabal's assassination plot, she must discover which of the two men in her life is involved in the plot--Novelist.

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BOLT
Dick Francis
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BOLT

by Dick Francis · Putnam

5 wks on list
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DESTINY
Sally Beauman
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DESTINY

by Sally Beauman · Bantam

3 wks on list
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RED STORM RISING
Tom Clancy
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RED STORM RISING

by Tom Clancy · Putnam

37 wks on list

When Moslem fundamentalists destroy a key Soviet oil complex, the Russians initiate a plan of diplomatic trickery for their seizure of Persian Gulf oil.

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IT
Stephen King
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IT

by Stephen King · Viking Press

31 wks on list

Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s upcoming Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It. Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It. “Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).

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THE THANATOS SYNDROME
Walker Percy
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THE THANATOS SYNDROME

by Walker Percy · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

1 wks on list

Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his life forever.

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OUTBREAK
Robin Cook
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OUTBREAK

by Robin Cook · Putnam

8 wks on list
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NIGHT OF THE FOX
Jack Higgins
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NIGHT OF THE FOX

by Jack Higgins · Simon & Schuster

13 wks on list

In his biggest and most exciting novel since The Eagle Has Landed, Jack Higgins sweeps the reader into one of the most extraordinary--and secret--episodes of World War II: a mission to rescue from the hands of the Germans a man who knows the time and place of D-Day!

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THE PANIC OF '89
Paul Erdman

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