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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of November 26, 1967

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THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER
William Styron
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THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

by William Styron · Random House

21 wks at #1 · 6 on list

Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.

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TOPAZ
Leon Uris
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TOPAZ

by Leon Uris · McGraw-Hill

9 wks on list
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THE GABRIEL HOUNDS
Mary Stewart
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THE GABRIEL HOUNDS

by Mary Stewart · William Morrow and Company

9 wks on list

Charles and Christy Mansel decide to enliven their tour of the Middle East by visiting Great-Aunt Harriet, an eccentric recluse.

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CHRISTY
Catherine Marshall
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CHRISTY

by Catherine Marshall · McGraw-Hill

4 wks on list

Christy is the book that inspired the CBS television series by the same name. It is the story of a young girl who came to teach in the impoverished Smokies and how her faith conquered her primitive surroundings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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A NIGHT OF WATCHING
Elliott Arnold
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A NIGHT OF WATCHING

by Elliott Arnold · Charles Scribner's Sons

17 wks on list

A novel based on two weeks during World War II, when the Danish Underground smuggled nearly all of the 8000 Jews in Denmark to safety in Sweden.

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NIGHT FALLS ON THE CITY
Sarah Gainham
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NIGHT FALLS ON THE CITY

by Sarah Gainham · Holt, Rinehart and Winston

15 wks on list

Vienna during the war, when Nazis arrive in Austria, a Viennese actress Julia Homburg, maneuvers to keep her husband, a Jewish Socialist politician, safe.

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