TheBestseller
Observatory

Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of November 17, 1985

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HOUSE
Tracy Kidder
Cover of HOUSE
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I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME
Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre

I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME

by Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre · Morrow

5 wks on list

In a book as provocative as the author, Howard Cosell describes his thirty-three years in broadcasting. This is the story of his involvement and disillusionment with the world of spectator sports from football to boxing. Cosell pulls no punches in telling of his experiences with Monday Night Football, and readers will be fascinated by what he has to say about Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and O. J. Simpson, those members of the "Jockocracy", the sports broadcasters who once played the game. In his usual style, Cosell spares no one, not even himself. I Never Played the Game is an abrasive, enlightening, and entertaining book of scope and conviction. You don't have to be a sports fan to love it!

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GODDESS
Anthony Summers
Cover of GODDESS
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COMMON GROUND
J. Anthony Lukas
Cover of COMMON GROUND

COMMON GROUND

by J. Anthony Lukas · Knopf

8 wks on list

Describes events in the lives of three families during the 1968 Boston school integration crisis.

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CHARLES & DIANA
Ralph G. Martin

CHARLES & DIANA

by Ralph G. Martin · Putnam

1 wks on list

Tells the story behind the fairy tale of the "greatest royal romance of our century", between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

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