Hardcover Fiction

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday

Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf

Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.

by Erich Maria Remarque · Hutchinson and Co Ltd

Story of victims in a Nazi concentration camp.

by Irving Stone · Doubleday

by John Marquand · Little, Brown

by Graham Greene · Viking Press

Account of a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God.

by James Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

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by Carl Jonas · Little, Brown and Company

by Mary Roberts Rinehart · Rinehart & Company

by Sholem Asch · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by J.D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company,

'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.' The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels. 'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker

by Francis Van Wyck Mason · Doubleday

by Daphne Rooke · Houghton Mifflin

by Par Lagerkvist · Random House

by Harold Lenoir Davis · William Morrow and Company