Hardcover Fiction

by Kenneth Roberts · Doubleday

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown

by Sholem Asch · Putnam

by Russell Janney · Prentice Hall

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

by Mary O'Hara · Lippincott

by Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard · Macmillan

by Pat Frank · Lippincott

by Arthur Koestler · Macmillan

by Eric Hodgins · Simon & Schuster

by Pierre Andrezel · Random House

by Thomas Heggen · Houghton Mifflin

The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Reluctant, that sails, as written in the play, "from apathy to tedium with occasional side trips to monotony and ennui." This irreverent, often hilarious story about the crew of the Reluctant has enjoyed wide and enduring popularity. It was subsequently adapted as a play, a feature film, a television series, and a television movie. The film version with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon is one of the most well-known movies of WWII.

by Inglis Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

Angela Ferrier is passionately in love with a British spy and a colonial staff officer during the American Revolution

by William Wister Haines · Little, Brown

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Taylor Caldwell · Scribner