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''Reader's Digest Condensed Books'' was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine ''
Reader's Digest ''Reader's Digest'' is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wif ...
'' and distributed by
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. Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which were abridged (or "condensed") specifically for ''Reader's Digest''. The series was published from 1950 until 1997, when it was renamed ''
Reader's Digest Select Editions The ''Reader's Digest Select Editions'' are a series of hardcover fiction anthology books, published bi-monthly and available by subscription, from ''Reader's Digest''. Each volume consists of four or five current bestselling novels selected by '' ...
''. The series was popular; a 1987 ''New York Times'' article estimated annual sales of 10 million copies. Despite this popularity, old copies are notoriously difficult to sell. Despite the series' ubiquity, scholarly attention has been sparse. For much of their publication schedule, the volumes were issued four times each year. Each year the company produced a Volume 1 (winter), Volume 2 (spring), Volume 3 (summer), and Volume 4 (autumn). In later years they added a Volumes 5, and then a Volume 6, going to a bi-monthly schedule by the early 1990s. The series was produced for 47 years (1950–1997), until being renamed ''
Reader's Digest Select Editions The ''Reader's Digest Select Editions'' are a series of hardcover fiction anthology books, published bi-monthly and available by subscription, from ''Reader's Digest''. Each volume consists of four or five current bestselling novels selected by '' ...
''. (''Note'': UK editions seem to have been somewhat different from USA editions. Pre-1992 Canadian editions also contain different titles.) Occasional books such as ''
The Leopard ''The Leopard'' ( it, Il Gattopardo ) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the ''Risorgimento''. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the ...
'' (Summer 1960), '' The Days Were Too Short'' (Autumn 1960), and '' Papillon'' (Autumn 1970) were not published in English originally but were abridgments of translations. In some cases, advanced copies of the hardcover edition were printed in
paperback A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, ...
form. In a few cases, new editions of older works ('' Up from Slavery'', published originally in 1901 (Autumn 1960), '' A Roving Commission: My Early Life'', published originally in 1930 (Autumn 1951) or ''
Goodbye Mr. Chips ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two tele ...
'', published originally in 1934 (Summer 1961)) were also among the condensed selections.


1950s


1950

Volume 1 - Spring * ''The Show Must Go On'' -
Elmer Rice Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays ''The Adding Machine'' (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, '' Street Sce ...
* '' The Cry and the Covenant'' - Morton Thompson * ''Autobiography of Will Rogers'' - Donald Day, editor * ''
Cry, the Beloved Country ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder. American publisher Benn ...
'' - Alan Paton Volume 2 - Summer * ''
The Wooden Horse ''The Wooden Horse'' is a 1950 British Second World War war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The f ...
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Eric Williams Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician who is regarded by some as the " Father of the Nation", having led the then British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October ...
* ''Home Town'' –
Cleveland Amory Cleveland Amory (September 2, 1917 – October 14, 1998) was an American author, reporter, television critic, commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions an ...
* ''Visibility Unlimited'' –
Dick Grace Richard Virgil Grace (October 1, 1898 – June 25, 1965), known as Dick Grace, was an American stunt pilot who specialized in crashing planes for films. Films that he appeared in include '' Sky Bride'', ''The Lost Squadron'', '' Lilac Time'', and ...
* ''
The Way West ''The Way West'' is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 and became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. The novel is one in the sequence o ...
'' – A. B. Guthrie Jr. Volume 3 - Autumn * ''The Cardinal'' –
Henry Morton Robinson Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for '' A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'' written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel ''The Cardinal'', which ''Time'' magazine reported w ...
* ''Long the Imperial Way'' – Hanama Taski * ''Roosevelt in Retrospect'' –
John Gunther John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and writer. His success came primarily by a series of popular sociopolitical works, known as the "Inside" books (1936–1972), including the best-selling ''Insid ...
* '' Young Man with a Horn'' – Dorothy Baker


1951

Volume 4 - Winter * ''Anybody Can Do Anything'' -
Betty MacDonald Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book '' The Egg and I''. She also wrote the '' Mrs. Piggl ...
* ''Elephant Bill'' - Lt. Col. J. H. Williams * ''Signal Thirty-Two'' -
MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded th ...
* ''German Faces'' - Ann Stringer and
Henry Ries Henry Ries (September 22, 1917 – May 24, 2004) was a photographer who worked for ''New York Times''. His most famous photo was of "The Berlin Air Lift" which was later made into a U.S. Postage Stamp commemorative. Ries was born in Berlin and ...
* ''Mischief'' -
Charlotte Armstrong Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 18, 1969 in Glendale, California) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenp ...
Volume 5 - Spring *''Blandings' way'' -
Eric Hodgins Eric Francis Hodgins (March 2, 1899 – January 7, 1971) was the American author of the popular novel '' Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'', illustrated by William Steig. Biography Hodgins was born in Detroit, Michigan to the Episcopa ...
*''Operation Cicero'' -
Ludwig Carl Moyzisch Ludwig Carl Moyzisch (born 1905) was a diplomatic attaché of the Nazi Germany, Nazi German Embassy in Ankara, Turkey in 1943. Under this cover, he led the work of the German secret services in Turkey, including Elyesa Bazna, codename 'Cicero'. Moyz ...
*''Two Soldiers / from collected stories'' -
William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...
*''The Nymph and the Lamp'' -
Thomas H. Raddall Thomas Head Raddall (13 November 1903 – 1 April 1994) was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction.The Caine Mutiny ''The Caine Mutiny'' is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral ...
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Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...
*''Neither Five nor Three'' -
Helen MacInnes Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 – September 30, 1985) was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. Life She and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1937, when he took an academic position at Columbia University in New Y ...
*''Old Herbaceous'' -
Reginald Arkell Reginald Arkell (14 October 1881 – 1 May 1959) was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book ''1066 and All That'': ''10 ...
*''See How They Run'' - Don M. Mankiewicz Volume 7 - Autumn * ''Fallen Away'' -
Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...
* '' Return to Paradise'' - James A. Michener * '' A Roving Commission: My Early Life'' - Winston S. Churchill * ''The Southwest Corner'' - Mildred Walker * ''The Arms of Venus'' - John Appleby


1952

Volume 8 - Winter * ''Melville Goodwin, USA'' -
John P. Marquand John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...
* '' The Cruel Sea'' -
Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–45), but perhaps known best i ...
* ''A Genius in the Family'' -
Hiram Percy Maxim Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and sellin ...
* "Monarch of Goddess Island" (''The Plunderers'') -
Georges Blond Georges Blond (''Jean-Marie Hoedick'', 11 July 1906 in Marseille – 16 March 1989 in Paris), was a French writer. A prolific writer of mostly history but also other topics including fiction, Blond was also involved in far right political activity. ...
* ''
To Catch a Thief '' To Catch a Thief'' is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burgl ...
'' - David Dodge
Volume 9 - Spring * '' Adventures in Two Worlds'' -
A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...
* ''The Gabriel Horn'' - Felix Holt * ''Duveen'' - S. N. Behrman * "Kamante and Lulu" (''Out of Africa'') -
Isak Dinesen Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countrie ...
* ''East Side General'' -
Frank G. Slaughter Frank Gill Slaughter (February 25, 1908 – May 17, 2001), pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor a ...
Volume 10 - Summer * ''The Hidden Flower'' -
Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...
* '' The Dam Busters'' -
Paul Brickhill Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 191623 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote '' The Great Escape'', '' The Dam Busters'', and ''Reach for the Sky''. Early life Brickhill was born in Melbou ...
* '' The City Boy'' -
Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...
* ''
My Cousin Rachel ''My Cousin Rachel'' is a Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Bearing thematic similarities to her earlier and more famous novel '' Rebecca'', it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in ...
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Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geo ...

Volume 11 - Autumn * ''Matador'' -
Barnaby Conrad Barnaby Conrad, Jr. (March 27, 1922 – February 12, 2013) was an American artist, author, nightclub proprietor, bullfighter and boxer. Born in San Francisco, California to an affluent family, Conrad was raised in Hillsborough. He spent a year ...
* ''Witness'' -
Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer-editor, who, after early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), defected from the Soviet underground (1938) ...
* "The Law of the Jungle" (''My India'') -
Jim Corbett Edward James Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in the Indian subcontinent. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian ...
* ''The President's Lady'' -
Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...


1953

Volume 12 - Winter * ''Hunter'' -
J.A. Hunter John Alexander Hunter (30 May 1887 – 29 March 1963) was a white hunter in Africa from the early 1900s through the 1950s who led many notable safaris. Biography John Alexander Hunter was born on 30 May 1887 near Shearington, Dumfries-shi ...
* ''
Giant In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: ''gigas'', cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''giant'' is first attested in 1297 fr ...
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Edna Ferber Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning '' So Big'' (1924), ''Show Boat'' (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), '' Ci ...
* ''Through Charley's Door'' -
Emily Kimbrough Emily Kimbrough (October 23, 1899 – February 10, 1989) was an American author and journalist. Biography Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana. In 1921 she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and went on a trip to Europe with her friend Co ...
* ''The Best Cartoons from
Punch Punch commonly refers to: * Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist * Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice Punch may also refer to: Places * Pun ...
'' - Marvin Rosenberg & William Cole, editors * '' Island Rescue: An Appointment with Venus'' -
Jerrard Tickell Edward Jerrard Tickell (14 February 1905 – 27 March 1966) was an Irish writer, known for his novels and historical books on the Second World War. Biography Jerrard Tickell was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and, from 1919 until 1922 a ...

Spring 1953 Selections *''Black Widow'' -
Patrick Quentin Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Wheeler, Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 – December 1966), Martha Mott Kelley (30 April 1906 – 2005) an ...
*''The Silent World'' -
Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA ( self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). T ...
with
Frédéric Dumas Frédéric Dumas (14 January 1913 – 26 July 1991) was a French writer. He was part of a team of three, with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Tailliez, who had a passion for diving, and developed the diving regulator with the aid of the enginee ...
*'' East of Eden'' - John Steinbeck *''Karen'' - Marie Killilea *''The Curve and The Tusk'' - Stuart Cloete Volume 14 - Summer * ''Our Virgin Island'' -
Robb White Robb White III (June 20, 1909 – November 24, 1990) was an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels. Most of the latter had a maritime setting, often the Pacific Navy during World War II. White was best ...
* ''A Bargain with God'' - Thomas Savage * ''
Annapurna Annapurna (; ne, अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal. It is the tenth highest mountain in the world at above sea level and is well known for the diffic ...
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Maurice Herzog Maurice André Raymond Herzog (15 January 191913 December 2012) was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna expedition that first climbed a peak over 8000m, Annapurna, in 1950, and ...
* ''A Good Man'' - Jefferson Young * ''The Intruder'' - Helen Fowler
Volume 15 - Autumn * ''
The Bridges at Toko-Ri ''The Bridges at Toko-Ri'' is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictur ...
'' - James A. Michener * '' Beyond This Place'' -
A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...
* ''
Life Among the Savages ''Life Among the Savages'' is a collection of short stories edited into novel form, written by Shirley Jackson. Originally these stories were published individually in women's magazines such as ''Good Housekeeping'', ''Woman's Day'', '' Mademois ...
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Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two me ...
* ''My Crowded Solitude'' - Jack McLaren * ''Digby'' - David Walker


1954

Volume 16 - Winter * ''Call Me Lucky: Bing Crosby's Own Story'' - Bing Crosby with Pete Martin * '' Too Late the Phalarope'' - Alan Paton * ''Time and Time Again'' - James Hilton * ''Heather Mary'' - J. M. Scott
Volume 17 - Spring * '' The Night of the Hunter'' -
Davis Grubb Davis Alexander Grubb (July 23, 1919 – July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his 1953 novel '' The Night of the Hunter'', which was adapted as a film in 1955 by Charles Laughton. Biography Born in M ...
* ''God and My Country'' -
MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded th ...
* ''
Not as a Stranger ''Not as a Stranger'' is a 1955 American film noir drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and Gloria Grahame. It is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thomp ...
'' - Morton Thompson * ''The Best Cartoons from France'' - Edna Bennett, collector * ''The Young Elizabeth'' - Jennette & Francis Letton Volume 18 - Summer * '' The Desperate Hours'' - Joseph Hayes * ''General Dean's Story'' -
William F. Dean William Frishe Dean Sr. (August 1, 1899August 24, 1981) was a United States Army Major general (United States), major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during ...
with William L. Worden * '' Mr. Hobbs' Vacation'' -
Edward Streeter Edward Streeter (August 1, 1891 – March 31, 1976), sometimes credited as E. Streeter, was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the 1949 novel '' Father of the Bride'' and his ''Dere Mable'' series. Biography Streeter was ...
* ''The Power and the Prize'' - Howard Swiggett * "The Duchess and the Smugs" (''A Wreath for the Enemy'') -
Pamela Frankau Pamela Sydney Frankau (3 January 1908 – 8 June 1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. She was abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, and she became a prolific writer. S ...
* ''Tomorrow!'' -
Philip Wylie Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971) was an American writer of works ranging from pulp science fiction, mysteries, social diatribes and satire to ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust. Early life and career Born in Beve ...

Volume 19 - Autumn * ''
The Dollmaker ''The Dollmaker'' is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film starring Jane Fonda and based on the 1954 novel of the same title written by Harriette Arnow. It was originally broadcast on ABC on May 13, 1984. Fonda was awarded the Pr ...
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Harriette Arnow Harriette Simpson Arnow (July 7, 1908 – March 22, 1986) was an American novelist and historian, who lived in Kentucky and Michigan. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself loved citie ...
* ''The Anatomy of a Crime'' - Joseph F. Dinneen * ''Love is Eternal'' -
Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...
* ''Around a Rusty God'' - Augusta Walker * '' The High and the Mighty'' -
Ernest K. Gann Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation ...


1955

Volume 20 - Winter * ''The Reason Why'' - Cecil Woodham-Smith * ''The China I Knew (My Several Worlds)'' -
Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...
* ''My Brother's Keeper'' -
Marcia Davenport Marcia Davenport (born Marcia Glick; June 9, 1903 – January 16, 1996) was an American writer and music critic. She is best known for her 1932 biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the first American published biography of Mozart. Dave ...
* ''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' -
Frances Gray Patton Mrs. Frances Gray Patton (March 19, 1906 – March 28, 2000) was an American short story writer and novelist. She is best known for her 1954 novel ''Good Morning Miss Dove.'' Biography She was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Mr. Robert Lily, ...
* ''The Darby Trial'' - Dick Pearce Volume 22 - Summer * ''Man-Eater'' -
Jim Corbett Edward James Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in the Indian subcontinent. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian ...
* ''The Actor'' -
Niven Busch Niven Busch (April 26, 1903 – August 25, 1991) was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed '' The Postman Always Rings Twice''. His novels included ''Duel in the Sun'' (1944) and ''California Street'' (1959). H ...
* ''Onions in the Stew'' -
Betty MacDonald Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book '' The Egg and I''. She also wrote the '' Mrs. Piggl ...
* ''The Captive City'' - John Appleby * ''The Missing Macleans'' - Geoffrey Hoare * ''The Searchers'' -
Alan Le May Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, ''The Searchers'' (1954) and ''The Unforgiven'' (1957).Herzberg, Bob (2008). ''Savages an ...
Volume 21 - Spring * '' Good-bye, My Lady'' - James Street * ''The Dowry'' -
Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...
* ''The Day Lincoln Was Shot'' -
Jim Bishop James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book ''The Day Lincoln was Shot''. Early life Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he dropped out of school after eighth gra ...
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The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant ''The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant'' is a 1954 novel by Douglass Wallop. It adapts the Faust theme of a deal with the Devil to the world of American baseball in the 1950s. Plot summary The novel's protagonist, mild-mannered, middle-aged J ...
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Douglass Wallop John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright. Early life On March 8, 1920, Wallop was born as John Douglass Wallop III in Washington, D.C. to Marjorie Ellis Wallop and insurance agent Jo ...
* ''Flamingo Feather'' -
Laurens van der Post Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in J ...
Volume 23 - Autumn * ''This is Goggle, or the Education of a Father'' - Bentz Plagemann * ''
Run Silent, Run Deep ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' is a novel by Commander (later Captain) Edward L. Beach Jr. published in 1955 by Henry Holt & Co. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, and deals with themes of vengeance, endurance, c ...
'' - Commander Edward L. Beach, USN * '' Marjorie Morningstar'' -
Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...
* '' Last of the Curlews'' -
Fred Bodsworth Charles Frederick (Fred) Bodsworth (October 11, 1918 – September 15, 2012) was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist. Born in Port Burwell, Ontario, Bodsworth worked as a journalist for the ''St. Thomas Times-Journal'', ''The T ...
* ''First Train to Babylon'' -
Max Ehrlich Max Michaelis Ehrlich (7 December 1892 – 1 October 1944) was a German actor, screenwriter, and director on the German theater, comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s. Ehrlich began his career in the 1920s at various theatres, including leadin ...


1956

Volume 24 - Winter * "The Secret of the Swamp" (''Andersonville'') -
MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded th ...
* ''Island in the Sun'' -
Alec Waugh Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Bar ...
* '' An Episode of Sparrows'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''Minding Our Own Business'' - Charlotte Paul * ''The Long Ride Home'' - Bonner McMillion
Volume 25 - Spring * ''Captain of the Queens'' - Captain Harry Grattidge with Richard Collier * ''Beloved'' -
Viña Delmar Viña Delmar (born Alvina Louise Croter; January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s. She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publ ...
* ''In My Father's House'' - Grace Nies Fletcher * ''
The Last Hurrah ''The Last Hurrah'' is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United Stat ...
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Edwin O'Connor Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel '' The Edge of Sadness'' (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his no ...
* ''Boon Island'' - Kenneth Roberts Volume 26 - Summer * ''
Old Yeller ''Old Yeller'' is a 1956 children's literature, children's novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger. It received a Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor in 1957. The title is taken from the name of the yellow dog who is the center of t ...
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Fred Gipson Frederick Benjamin "Fred" Gipson (February 7, 1908 – August 14, 1973) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel ''Old Yeller'', which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm ...
* ''Harry Black'' - David Walker * ''The Greer Case'' - David W. Peck * ''
A Thing of Beauty ''A Thing of Beauty'' is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1956, with the alternate title of ''Crusader's Tomb''. It tells the story of Stephen Desmonde, an English painter who struggles for recognition in a conventional wo ...
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A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...
* ''A Single Pebble'' -
John Hersey John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to n ...

Volume 27 - Autumn * '' The Nun's Story'' -
Kathryn Hulme Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel '' The Nun's Story''. The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Writing Her 1956 book ''The Nun's Story'' wa ...
* '' Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter'' -
Edward Streeter Edward Streeter (August 1, 1891 – March 31, 1976), sometimes credited as E. Streeter, was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the 1949 novel '' Father of the Bride'' and his ''Dere Mable'' series. Biography Streeter was ...
* ''The Success'' -
Helen Howe Helen Howe (January 11, 1905 – February 1, 1975) was an American novelist, biographer and monologist. Early life and education Helen Huntington Howe was born to Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe and Fanny Huntington Quincy Howe on January 11, 1905. H ...
* ''The Diamond Hitch'' - Frank O'Rourke * ''The Sleeping Partner'' -
Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary ...


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Volume 28 - Winter * '' Bon Voyage'' - Marrijane & Joseph Hayes * ''The Tribe That Lost Its Head'' -
Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–45), but perhaps known best i ...
* ''The Philadelphian'' - Richard Powell * ''A Family Party'' - John O'Hara * ''Stopover: Tokyo'' -
John P. Marquand John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...

Volume 29 - Spring * ''
The Scapegoat A scapegoat is a goat used in a religious ritual or the victim of scapegoating, the singling out of a party for unmerited blame. Scapegoat or The Scapegoat may also refer to: Places * Scapegoat Wilderness, a Wilderness Area in Montana ** Scapeg ...
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Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geo ...
* ''The Last Angry Man'' -
Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...
* '' The Muses Are Heard'' -
Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, ...
* ''The Fruit Tramp'' - Vinnie Williams * ''
The Enemy Below ''The Enemy Below'' is a 1957 DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope about a battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II. Produced and directed by Dick Powell, the movie stars Robert Mitchum and Curt J ...
'' - Commander D.A. Rayner Volume 30 - Summer * ''The Lady'' - Conrad Richter * '' A Houseful of Love'' -
Marjorie Housepian Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin () was an author and an English professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Her books include the novel '' A Houseful of Love'' (a '' New York Times'' and '' New York Herald Tribune'' bestseller) ...
* ''
The Three Faces of Eve ''The Three Faces of Eve'' is a 1957 American film noir mystery drama film presented in CinemaScope, based on the book of the same name about the life of Chris Costner Sizemore, which was written by psychiatrists Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. ...
'' - Dr. Corbett H. Thigpen, MD & Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley, MD * '' Letter from Peking'' -
Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...
* ''The FBI Story'' -
Don Whitehead Don Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia - January 12, 1981) was an American journalist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. He won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting. He was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Int ...
* "Mission to Borneo" (''The Spiral Road'') -
Jan de Hartog Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dut ...

Volume 31 - Autumn * ''Lobo'' -
MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded th ...
* ''The Century of the Surgeon'' -
Jürgen Thorwald Jürgen Thorwald (born Heinz Bongartz, October 28, 1915; died April 4, 2006) was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II. Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhe ...
* '' By Love Possessed'' -
James Gould Cozzens James Gould Cozzens (August 19, 1903 – August 9, 1978) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 Pulitzer win was for the WWI ...
* "Duel with a Witch Doctor" (''The Spiral Road'') -
Jan de Hartog Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dut ...
* ''Warm Bodies'' - Donald R. Morris


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Volume 32 - Winter * ''The Green Helmet'' -
Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...
* ''Dunbar's Cove'' -
Borden Deal Borden Deal ( – ) was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Born Loysé Youth Deal in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Deal attended Macedonia Consolidated High School, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and fought f ...
* ''The Twentieth Maine'' - John J. Pullen * ''Life at Happy Knoll'' -
John P. Marquand John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...
* ''The Horsecatcher'' -
Mari Sandoz Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was a Nebraska novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher. She became one of the West's foremost writers, and wrote extensively about pioneer life and the Plains Indians.Bristow, Dav ...
* ''Sharks and Little Fish'' -
Wolfgang Ott Wolfgang Ott (born 1957) is an Austrian sex offender, murderer and alleged serial killer, whose actions are considered some of the most spectacular criminal cases in his home country. Offenses and alleged crimes Wolfgang Ott was sentenced to 15 ...

Volume 33 - Spring * ''Big Caesar'' - Charlton Ogburn Jr. * ''
The Winthrop Woman ''The Winthrop Woman'' is Anya Seton's 1958 historical novel about Elizabeth Fones, a settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a founder of Greenwich, Connecticut. Plot summary ''The Winthrop Woman'' begins with young Elizabeth Fones and her ...
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Anya Seton Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels". Career Seton published her first novel, ''My Theodosia'', in 1941. Seton ...
* ''The Counterfeit Traitor'' -
Alexander Klein Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
* ''The Man Who Broke Things'' - John Brooks * ''Murder on My Street'' -
Edwin Lanham Edwin Moultrie Lanham was born in Weatherford, Texas on October 11, 1904, in the north central part of Texas where his family settled in the 1868. His family included his grandfather S. W. T. Lanham, the former Governor of Texas. His father Edw ...
Volume 34 - Summer * ''
Seidman and Son ''Seidman and Son'' is a bestselling 1958 novel by Elick Moll, adapted by Moll into a 1962 play. The story centers on Morris Seidman, a Jewish garment manufacturer in New York City, and his relationships with his wife, son, and daughter.Graham, ...
'' - Elick Moll * '' The Northern Light'' -
A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...
* ''Rough Road Home'' - Melissa Mather * ''A Friend in Power'' - Carlos H. Baker * ''Sun in the Hunter's Eyes'' - Mark Derby Volume 35 - Autumn * ''Preacher's Kids'' - Grace Nies Fletcher * ''The Steel Cocoon'' - Bentz Plagemann * ''Women and Thomas Harrow'' -
John P. Marquand John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...
* '' Green Mansions'' - W. H. Hudson * ''Tether's End'' -
Margery Allingham Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Alli ...


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Volume 36 - Winter * ''The Admen'' -
Shepherd Mead Shepherd Mead, born Edward Mead (April 26, 1914 – August 15, 1994) was an American writer and is best known as the author of ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,'' which was adapted into a hit Broadway show and motion picture. ...
* ''
The Rainbow and the Rose ''The Rainbow and the Rose'' is a novel by Nevil Shute. It was first published in England in 1958 by William Heinemann. Title The title is taken from a sonnet "The Treasure" by Rupert Brooke, which is quoted in full as a preface: When colour ...
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Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect ...
* '' Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris'' -
Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...
* ''
The Ugly American ''The Ugly American'' is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer that depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia. The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and had major political implic ...
'' - William J. Lederer &
Eugene Burdick Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918 – July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of '' The Ugly American'' (1958), ''Fail-Safe'' (1962), and author of '' The 480'' (1965). Early life H ...
* ''The White Room'' -
Elizabeth Coatsworth Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing '' The Cat Who Went to ...
* ''Woman of Straw'' - Catherine Arley
Volume 37 - Spring * ''The Secret Project of Sigurd O'Leary'' - Martin Quigley * ''Dear and Glorious Physician'' -
Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her mar ...
* ''Collision Course'' - Alvin Moscow * ''Jungle Girl'' - John Moore * ''Epitaph for an Enemy'' - George Barr Volume 38 - Summer * '' The Lion'' -
Joseph Kessel Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Biography Kessel was born to a Jewish family in ...
* ''The Light Infantry Ball'' -
Hamilton Basso Joseph Hamilton Basso (September 5, 1904 – May 13, 1964) was an American novelist and journalist. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Basso worked as reporter for several newspapers in New Orleans, wrote 11 novels, primarily about the South, and was ...
* ''A Rockefeller Family Portrait'' -
William Manchester William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the ...
* "Trail to Abilene" (''Born of the Sun'') - John H. Culp * ''The Big X'' -
Hank Searls Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included ''The Crowded Sky'' (1960), which was adapted as the 1960 movie of the same name; ''The Pilgrim Project'' (1964), which was ad ...
Volume 39 - Autumn * "West Wind to Hawaii" (''
Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...
'') - James A. Michener * ''
Advise and Consent Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts. It describes either of two situations: where a weak executive branch of a government enacts something previ ...
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Allen Drury Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert ...
* ''The Miracle of Merriford'' -
Reginald Arkell Reginald Arkell (14 October 1881 – 1 May 1959) was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book ''1066 and All That'': ''10 ...
* '' Act One: An Autobiography'' -
Moss Hart Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Early years Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker. He had a younger brother ...
* ''Flight from Ashiya'' -
Elliott Arnold Elliott Arnold (September 13, 1912 – May 13, 1980) was an American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he became a feature writer with the ''New York World-Telegram'' and authored dozens of nove ...


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1960

Volume 40 - Winter * ''Jeremy Todd'' - Hamilton Maule * "From the Farm of Bitterness" (''
Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...
'') - James A. Michener * '' Pioneer, Go Home!'' - Richard Powell * ''The City That Would Not Die'' - Richard Collier * '' King Solomon's Ring'' - Konrad Z. Lorenz * ''The Triumph of Surgery'' -
Jürgen Thorwald Jürgen Thorwald (born Heinz Bongartz, October 28, 1915; died April 4, 2006) was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II. Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhe ...

Volume 41 - Spring * ''The Final Diagnosis'' - Arthur Hailey * ''Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York'' -
Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...
* ''Strangers in the Forest'' - Carol Brink * ''
The Haunting of Hill House ''The Haunting of Hill House'' is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, it has been mad ...
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Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two me ...
* ''Wolfpack'' - William M. Hardy Volume 42 - Summer * ''The Lovely Ambition'' -
Mary Ellen Chase Mary Ellen Chase (24 February 1887 – 28 July 1973) was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional New England literary figures of the early twentieth century. Early life Chase was ...
* '' Trustee from the Toolroom'' -
Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect ...
* ''
The Leopard ''The Leopard'' ( it, Il Gattopardo ) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the ''Risorgimento''. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the ...
'' - Giuseppe di Lampedusa * ''Village of Stars'' - Paul Stanton * ''
To Kill a Mockingbird ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' has become ...
'' - Harper Lee Volume 43 - Autumn * ''Surface at the Pole'' - Commander James F. Calvert, USN * '' The Devil's Advocate'' - Morris L. West * '' Up from Slavery'' -
Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American c ...
* "Hook" ('' The Watchful Gods and Other Stories'') -
Walter Van Tilburg Clark Walter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909 – November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the ' ...
* ''Mistress of Mellyn'' - Victoria Holt * ''The Days Were Too Short'' -
Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionabl ...


1961

Volume 44 - Winter * '' The Light in the Piazza'' - Elizabeth Spencer * ''Half Angel'' - Barbara Jefferis * ''A Sense of Values'' - Sloan Wilson * "Warpath" (''
Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...
'') - Kenneth Roberts * ''
Marnie ''Marnie'' is an English crime novel, written by Winston Graham and first published in 1961. It has been adapted as a film, a stage play and an opera. Plot ''Marnie'' is about a young woman who makes a living by embezzling her employers' funds, ...
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Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary ...

Volume 45 - Spring * ''
Fate Is the Hunter Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin ''fatum'' "decree, prediction, destiny, fate"), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. Fate Although often ...
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Ernest K. Gann Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation ...
* ''Peaceable Lane'' - Keith Wheeler * ''Madame Curie'' -
Ève Curie Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (; December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie an ...
* ''Evil Come, Evil Go'' -
Whit Masterson Whit Masterson was a pen name for a partnership of two American authors, Robert Allison Wade (June 8, 1920 – September 30, 2012) and H. Bill Miller (May 11, 1920 – August 21, 1961). The two also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including W ...
* ''The 'Mozart' Leaves at Nine'' - Harris Greene Volume 46 - Summer * ''
The Winter of Our Discontent ''The Winter of Our Discontent'' is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's ''Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun r son ...
'' - John Steinbeck * '' The Agony and the Ecstasy'' -
Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...
* '' The Making of the President, 1960'' - Theodore H. White * "A Lodging for the Emperor" (''Japanese Inn'') - Oliver Statler * ''
Goodbye, Mr. Chips ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two televi ...
'' - James Hilton
Volume 47 - Autumn * ''
Ring of Bright Water ''Ring of Bright Water'' is a book by Gavin Maxwell about his life in a remote house in coastal Scotland where he kept several wild otters as pets. First published in 1960, it became a best seller and is considered a literary masterpiece, event ...
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Gavin Maxwell Gavin Maxwell FRSL FZS FRGS (15 July 19147 September 1969) was a British naturalist and author, best known for his non-fiction writing and his work with otters. He wrote the book ''Ring of Bright Water'' (1960) about how he brought an otter ...
* ''
The Judas Tree ''The Judas Tree'' is a 1961 novel by A. J. Cronin. It is considered one of the author's finest works and demonstrated a keen understanding of sin. Cronin described the book as "a complete dissection of a supreme Egotism, egoist - a well-inte ...
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A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...
* '' The Edge of Sadness'' -
Edwin O'Connor Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel '' The Edge of Sadness'' (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his no ...
* ''
A Fall of Moondust ''A Fall of Moondust'' is a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was the first science fiction novel selected to become a ''Reader's D ...
'' - Arthur C. Clarke * '' A Christmas Carol'' -
Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
* ''Summer of Pride'' - Elizabeth Savage


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Volume 48 - Winter * ''
Spencer's Mountain ''Spencer's Mountain'' is a 1963 American family drama film written, directed, and produced by Delmer Daves from the 1961 novel of the same name by Earl Hamner Jr. and starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara The supporting cast features early a ...
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Earl Hamner Jr. Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, ''The Waltons' ...
* ''A Prologue to Love'' -
Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her mar ...
* ''A Time to Stand'' -
Walter Lord John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', '' A Night to Remember''. Biography Early life Lor ...
* ''Give It Back to the Lemongrowers!'' - Willard Temple * ''Kirkland Revels'' - Victoria Holt
Volume 49 - Spring * ''Captain Newman, MD'' -
Leo Rosten Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography. Early life Rosten was born into a Yiddish-speaking family in Łód ...
* ''Devil Water'' -
Anya Seton Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels". Career Seton published her first novel, ''My Theodosia'', in 1941. Seton ...
* '' The Story of San Michele'' - Axel Munthe * ''Nine Hours to Rama'' - Stanley Wolpert * ''Watchers at the Pond'' - Franklin Russell Volume 50 - Summer * ''The Tuntsa'' - Teppo Turen with Elizabeth Maddox McCabe * ''
Youngblood Hawke ''Youngblood Hawke'' is a 1962 novel by American writer Herman Wouk about the rise and fall of a talented young writer of hardscrabble Kentucky origin who briefly becomes the toast of literary New York City. The plot was suggested by the life o ...
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Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...
* "Carol" (''The Blood of the Lamb'') - Peter De Vries * ''Since You Ask Me'' -
Ann Landers Ann Landers was a pen name created by ''Chicago Sun-Times'' advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002) in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated ad ...
* ''Star-Raker'' - Donald Gordon
Volume 51 - Autumn * '' Dearly Beloved'' -
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jerse ...
* "Brickie" (''To Love and Corrupt'') - Joseph Viertel * ''
Seven Days in May ''Seven Days in May'' is a 1964 American political thriller film about a military-political cabal's planned takeover of the United States government in reaction to the president's negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. The ...
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Fletcher Knebel Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, but relocated a number of times during his youth. He graduated from high school in Y ...
& Charles W. Bailey II * "The Wonderful World of School" (''The World Is Young'') - Wayne Miller * '' Microbe Hunters'' -
Paul de Kruif Paul Henry de Kruif (, rhyming with "life") (1890–1971) was an American microbiologist and author of Dutch descent. Publishing as Paul de Kruif, he is most noted for his 1926 book, ''Microbe Hunters''. This book was not only a bestseller for a le ...
* '' The Golden Rendezvous'' -
Alistair MacLean Alistair Stuart MacLean ( gd, Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a 20th-century Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably '' The ...


1963

Volume 52 - Winter * ''Second Growth'' -
Ruth Moore Ruth Moore (1903–1989) was an important Maine writer of the twentieth century. She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state. Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a sign ...
* ''To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See'' - Robert Russell * ''I Take This Land'' - Richard Powell * ''
America, America ''America America'' (British title ''The Anatolian Smile''—a reference to an ongoing acknowledgment of the character Stavros' captivating smile) is a 1963 American drama film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, adapted from his own b ...
'' - Elia Kazan * "Hell Creek Crossing" ('' The Reivers'') -
William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...
* ''Two Hours to Darkness'' -
Antony Trew Antony (Francis) Trew, (5 June 1906 in Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 1996 in Chertsey, United Kingdom) was a South African naval officer and writer. World War II In World War II he served with the South African and Royal Navies in the At ...

Volume 53 - Spring * ''A River Ran Out of Eden'' - James Vance Marshall * ''Escape from Red China'' - Robert Loh with Humphrey Evans * ''The Surgeon'' -
W. C. Heinz Wilfred Charles Heinz (January 11, 1915February 27, 2008) was an American sportswriter, war correspondent, journalist, and author. Newspaper and magazine career Heinz was born in Mount Vernon, New York. Following his graduation from Middlebury C ...
* ''Smith and Jones'' -
Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–45), but perhaps known best i ...
* ''
To Sir, With Love ''To Sir, with Love'' is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer Lulu making her film debut. Ja ...
'' -
E. R. Braithwaite Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (June 27, 1912 – December 12, 2016), publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racia ...
* ''...and presumed dead'' -
Lucille Fletcher Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her credits include ''The Hitch-Hiker,'' an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted for a notable episode of ' ...
Volume 54 - Summer * ''The Artist'' -
Jan de Hartog Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dut ...
* ''
The Shoes of the Fisherman The Shoes of the Fisherman may refer to: * ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (novel), a 1963 novel by the writer Morris West * ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (film), a 1968 film based on the novel {{disambiguation ...
'' - Morris L. West * ''The Moonflower Vine'' -
Jetta Carleton Jetta Carleton (October 18, 1913 – December 28, 1999) was an American novelist. Life and career Carleton was born on a farm in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of P. A. Carleton, the local superintendent of schools. She had two sisters, Truma and ...
* ''Florence Nightingale'' - Cecil Woodham-Smith * ''The Wild Grapes'' - Barbara Jefferis
Volume 55 - Autumn * ''The Tilsit Inheritance'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''Stranger to the Ground'' - Richard Bach * ''Of Good and Evil'' -
Ernest K. Gann Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation ...
* ''
When the Legends Die ''When The Legends Die'' is a 1963 American novel, written by Hal Borland; and a 1972 American Western film released in DeLuxe Color by Twentieth Century-Fox. Novel The novel, about the life of a Ute Indian young man, was written in 1963 by ...
'' -
Hal Borland Harold "Hal" Glen Borland (May 14, 1900 – February 22, 1978) was an American writer, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for '' The New Yor ...
* ''The Battle of the Villa Fiorita'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...


1964

Volume 56 - Winter * '' Naked Came I: A Novel of Rodin'' - David Weiss * '' Joy in the Morning'' -
Betty Smith Betty Smith (born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner; December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972) was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller '' A Tree Grows in Brooklyn''. Early years Smith was born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner on Dec ...
* ''The Peregrine Falcon'' -
Robert Murphy Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby Murphy may refer to: Sports Ice hockey *Robert Ronald Murphy or Ron Murphy (1933–2014), Canadian ice hockey player * Bob Murphy (ice hockey) (born 1951), Canadian retired professional ice hockey player * Rob Murphy (ice ...
* '' Careful, He Might Hear You'' -
Sumner Locke Elliott Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclam ...
* ''
The Cincinnati Kid ''The Cincinnati Kid'' is a 1965 American drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young Depression-era poker player, as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best. This quest leads him to cha ...
'' - Richard Jessup
Volume 57 - Spring * ''Too Young to Be a Grandfather'' - Willard Temple * ''When the Cheering Stopped'' - Gene Smith * ''
I Was Dancing ''I Was Dancing'' is a play by Edwin O'Connor. The work premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on November 3, 1964 and closed after 21 performances on November 21, 1964. The production was directed by Garson Kanin and starred Orson Bean, Da ...
'' -
Edwin O'Connor Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel '' The Edge of Sadness'' (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his no ...
* ''Alone'' - Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...
* ''The Hand of Mary Constable'' -
Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...
* '' Nerve'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
Volume 58 - Summer * ''Father to the Man'' - Bentz Plagemann * '' The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' -
John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...
* "Gold Fever" (''When the Lion Feeds'') - Wilbur A. Smith * ''The Vine and the Olive'' -
Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...
* '' The Flight of the Phoenix'' -
Elleston Trevor Elleston Trevor (17 February 1920 – 21 July 1995) was a British novelist and playwright who wrote under several pseudonyms. Born Trevor Dudley-Smith, he eventually changed his name to Elleston Trevor. Trevor worked in many genres, but is princ ...

Volume 59 - Autumn * ''
A Song of Sixpence ''A Song of Sixpence'' is a 1964 novel by A. J. Cronin about the coming to manhood of Laurence Carroll and his life in Scotland. Its sequel is ''A Pocketful of Rye''. As with several of his other novels, Cronin drew on his own experiences growi ...
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A.J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...
* ''Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel, Soviet Master Spy'' -
James B. Donovan James Britt Donovan (February 29, 1916 – January 19, 1970) was an American lawyer and United States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelli ...
* ''
Three Blind Mice "Three Blind Mice" is an English-language nursery rhyme and musical round.I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 306. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number o ...
'' - Agatha Christie * ''Episode'' -
Eric Hodgins Eric Francis Hodgins (March 2, 1899 – January 7, 1971) was the American author of the popular novel '' Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'', illustrated by William Steig. Biography Hodgins was born in Detroit, Michigan to the Episcopa ...
* ''The Island'' -
Robert Merle Robert Merle (; 28 August 1908 – 27 March 2004) was a French novelist. Early life Merle was born in 1908 in Tébessa, French Algeria. His father Félix, who was an interpreter "with a perfect knowledge of literary and spoken Arabic", was kille ...


1965

Volume 60 - Winter * ''The Sea Flower'' -
Ruth Moore Ruth Moore (1903–1989) was an important Maine writer of the twentieth century. She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state. Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a sign ...
* '' The Man'' -
Irving Wallace Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. Early life Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bessie Liss a ...
* ''A Ship Called Hope'' -
William B. Walsh William Bertalan Walsh, M.D. (April 26, 1920 – December 27, 1996) was the founder of Project HOPE (USA). Walsh was born on April 26, 1920, in Brooklyn. He received a bachelor's degree from St. John's University (New York), St. John's University i ...
, MD * ''The Third Day'' - Joseph Hayes * ''The Land Breakers'' - John Ehle
Volume 61 - Spring * ''A Journey to Boston'' -
Mary Ellen Chase Mary Ellen Chase (24 February 1887 – 28 July 1973) was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional New England literary figures of the early twentieth century. Early life Chase was ...
* "Hotel St. Gregory" (''
Hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...
'') - Arthur Hailey * ''A Pillar of Iron'' -
Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her mar ...
* ''Eighth Moon'' - Sansan with Bette Lord * ''The Ashes of Loda'' - Andrew Garve Volume 62 - Summer * ''May You Die in Ireland'' -
Michael Kenyon Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels. Author of more than twenty humorous mystery novels, he was one of the first in the field of spoof-espionage story telling, but was perhaps better kn ...
* ''Intern'' - Dr. X * ''
The Source ''The Source'' is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or . It is the world's longest-running rap periodical, being founded as a newsletter in 1988 by Jonathan Shecter. David Mays was the ma ...
'' - James A. Michener * ''
Night of Camp David ''Night of Camp David'' is a 1965 novel by Fletcher Knebel, co-author of ''Seven Days in May''. It spent 18 weeks on the bestseller list in 1965. In November, 2018, Vintage Books announced that it was re-releasing the book. Plot Iowan senator ...
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Fletcher Knebel Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, but relocated a number of times during his youth. He graduated from high school in Y ...
* ''A House of Many Rooms'' -
Rodello Hunter Rodello is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. Rodello borders the following municipalities: Albaretto della Torre, Benevello, Diano ...

Volume 63 - Autumn * ''
Airs Above the Ground The airs above the ground or school jumps are a series of higher-level, Haute ecole, classical dressage movements in which the horse leaves the ground. They include the capriole, the courbette, the mezair, the croupade and the levade. None ar ...
'' - Mary Stewart * ''
Up the Down Staircase ''Up the Down Staircase'' is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published in 1964, which spent 64 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. In 1967 it was released as a film starring Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Ruth White, Jean Stapl ...
'' - Bel Kaufman * '' Those Who Love'' -
Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...
* ''
Kon-Tiki The ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named ''Kon-Tiki'' after the Inca god Viracocha, fo ...
'' -
Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000& ...
* ''How Far to Bethlehem?'' -
Norah Lofts Norah Lofts, ''née'' Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 190410 September 1983) was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fi ...


1966

Volume 64 - Winter * ''Outpost of Freedom'' - Captain
Roger H. C. Donlon Roger Hugh Charles Donlon (born January 30, 1934) is a former United States Army officer. He is the first person to receive the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, as well as the first member of the United States Army Special Forces to be so honor ...
with Warren Rogers * ''The Double Image'' -
Helen MacInnes Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 – September 30, 1985) was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. Life She and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1937, when he took an academic position at Columbia University in New Y ...
* ''
The Yearling ''The Yearling'' is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was the best-selling n ...
'' -
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)
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* ''The Century of the Detective'' -
Jürgen Thorwald Jürgen Thorwald (born Heinz Bongartz, October 28, 1915; died April 4, 2006) was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II. Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhe ...
* "The Way of the Eagle" (''The Last Eagle'') - Daniel P. Mannix * ''So This Is What Happened to Charlie Moe'' -
Douglass Wallop John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright. Early life On March 8, 1920, Wallop was born as John Douglass Wallop III in Washington, D.C. to Marjorie Ellis Wallop and insurance agent Jo ...

Volume 65 - Spring * ''Hall of Mirrors'' - John Rowan Wilson * ''
Avalon Avalon (; la, Insula Avallonis; cy, Ynys Afallon, Ynys Afallach; kw, Enys Avalow; literally meaning "the isle of fruit r appletrees"; also written ''Avallon'' or ''Avilion'' among various other spellings) is a mythical island featured in the ...
'' -
Anya Seton Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels". Career Seton published her first novel, ''My Theodosia'', in 1941. Seton ...
* ''Children of Hope'' - Elsie E. Vignec * '' Congo Kitabu'' -
Jean-Pierre Hallet Jean-Pierre Hallet (1927 – 1 January 2004) was a Belgian (born in DR Congo) ethnologist, naturalist, and humanitarian known best for his extensive work with the Efé (Bambuti) pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest. He wrote the 1964 autobiographi ...
with Alex Pelle * ''Power Play'' - The Gordons Volume 66 - Summer * ''Rafe'' - Weldon Hill * ''Churchill: The Struggle for Survival'' - Lord Moran * ''Here Come the Brides'' - Geraldine Napier * ''The Ninety and Nine'' - William Brinkley * ''Menfreya in the Morning'' - Victoria Holt
Volume 67 - Autumn * ''Don Quixote, U.S.A.'' - Richard Powell * ''All in the Family'' -
Edwin O'Connor Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel '' The Edge of Sadness'' (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his no ...
* ''Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry'' -
Harry Kemelman Harry Kemelman (November 24, 1908 – December 15, 1996) was an American mystery writer and a professor of English. He was the creator of the fictitious religious sleuth Rabbi David Small. Early life Harry Kemelman was born in Boston, Massac ...
* ''The Gift of the Deer'' - Helen Hoover * ''Brothers of the Sea'' - D.R. Sherman


1967

Volume 68 - Winter * ''The Town and Dr. Moore'' - Agatha Young * '' The Captain'' -
Jan de Hartog Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dut ...
* ''Flight from a Firing Wall'' -
Baynard Kendrick Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (April 8, 1894 – March 22, 1977) was an American mystery novelist. He wrote whodunit novels about Duncan Maclain, a blind private investigator who worked with his two German shepherds and his household of assistants t ...
* '' The Headmaster'' -
John McPhee John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the four ...
* '' I Start Counting'' -
Audrey Erskine Lindop Audrey Erskine Lindop (26 December 1920, London – 7 November 1986, Isle of Wight) was an English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970. She was married to the writer ...

Volume 69 - Spring * ''My Boy John That Went to Sea'' - James Vance Marshall * ''One Summer in Between'' - Melissa Mather * ''The Broken Seal'' -
Ladislas Farago Ladislas Faragó or Faragó László (21 September 1906 – 15 October 1980) was a Hungarian military historian and journalist who published a number of best-selling books on history and espionage, especially concerning the World War II era. Bi ...
* '' Dibs in Search of Self'' - Virginia Axline * ''The Road'' - John Ehle * ''Sally'' - E. V. Cunningham Volume 70 - Summer * ''The Princess'' -
Gunnar Mattsson Kaj Gunnar Wolter Mattsson (5 May 1937 – 9 August 1989) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and journalist.Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...
* ''The Least One'' -
Borden Deal Borden Deal ( – ) was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Born Loysé Youth Deal in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Deal attended Macedonia Consolidated High School, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and fought f ...
* ''Currahee!'' - Donald R. Burgett * ''The Walking Stick'' -
Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary ...

Volume 71 - Autumn * '' Christy'' -
Catherine Marshall Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd (27 September 1914 – 18 March 1983) was an American author of nonfiction, inspirational, and fiction works. She was the wife of well-known minister Peter Marshall. Biography Marshall was born in Johnson ...
* ''
Life with Father ''Life with Father'' is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day. The Broadway production ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks to become the ...
'' - Clarence Day * ''
The Fox and the Hound ''The Fox and the Hound'' is a 1981 American animated buddy drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Daniel P. Mannix. The 24th Disney animated feature film, the film tells the st ...
'' - Daniel P. Mannix * ''
Nicholas and Alexandra ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' is a 1971 British epic historical drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, from a screenplay written by James Goldman and Edward Bond, based on Robert K. Massie's 1967 book of the same name, which is a partia ...
'' -
Robert K. Massie Robert Kinloch Massie III (January 5, 1929 – December 2, 2019) was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Massie was ...
* ''The Gabriel Hounds'' - Mary Stewart


1968

Volume 72 - Winter * ''Edge of Glass'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''Great Elephant'' - Alan Scholefield * ''Color from a Light Within'' - Donald Braider * ''The Kitchen Madonna'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''Vanished'' -
Fletcher Knebel Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, but relocated a number of times during his youth. He graduated from high school in Y ...

Volume 73 - Spring * ''The New Year'' -
Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...
* ''The Tower of Babel'' - Morris L. West * ''
Airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...
'' - Arthur Hailey * ''To the Top of the World'' -
Charles Kuralt Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on '' The CBS Eveni ...
* ''The Bait'' -
Dorothy Uhnak Dorothy Uhnak (April 24, 1930 – July 8, 2006; née Goldstein) was an American novelist. Uhnak was born in New York City. She attended City College of New York and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Uhnak worked for 14 years as a detect ...
Volume 74 - Summer * ''Once Upon an Island'' - David Conover * ''Bush Baby'' -
Martin Woodhouse Martin Charlton Woodhouse (29 August 1932 – 15 May 2011) was a British author and scriptwriter. He is most famous as a writer for the TV series '' The Avengers'', but he also authored or co-authored eleven novels. He was a former medical docto ...
* ''The Queen's Confession'' - Victoria Holt * ''Leafy Rivers'' - Jessamyn West * ''The Crossbreed'' - Allan W. Eckert
Volume 75 - Autumn * '' The Johnstown Flood'' - David G. McCullough * '' Once an Eagle'' - Anton Myrer * ''Ammie, Come Home'' - Barbara Michaels * ''Gone: A Trio of Short Stories'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''Sarang'' -
Roger A. Caras Roger Andrew Caras (May 24, 1928 – February 18, 2001) was an American wildlife photographer, writer, wildlife preservationist and television personality. Known as the host of the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Caras was the author ...


1969

Volume 76 - Winter * ''Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms'' - John Ball * ''The Hurricane Years'' - Cameron Hawley * ''The Wine and the Music'' - William E. Barrett * ''On Reflection'' - Helen Hayes with Sandford Dody * ''The Black Ship'' - Paul & Sheila Mandel Volume 77 - Spring * ''
The Two of Us ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
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Claude Berri Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor. Early life Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), w ...
* ''Bichu the Jaguar'' -
Alan Caillou Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe MBE, M.C. (9 November 1914 – 1 October 2006), who wrote under the name Alan Caillou, was an English-born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Biography Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in ...
* ''The Minister'' - Charles Mercer * ''Mayo: The Story of My Family and My Career'' - Dr. Charles W. Mayo * ''Torregreca'' - Ann Cornelisen * '' April Morning'' -
Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Biography Early life Fast was born in New York City. His mother, ...
Volume 78 - Summer * ''A Place in the Woods'' - Helen Hoover * ''The Death Committee'' - Noah Gordon * ''The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson'' - Thomas Fleming * ''The Three Daughters of Madame Liang'' -
Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...
* ''Snatch'' - Rennie Airth
Volume 79 - Autumn * ''The King's Pleasure'' -
Norah Lofts Norah Lofts, ''née'' Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 190410 September 1983) was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fi ...
* ''The Day the World Ended'' - Gordon Thomas &
Max Morgan-Witts Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931) is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV which he joined on January 9, 1956. He directed television shows for Granada, including ''T ...
* ''My Life with
Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...
'' -
Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King ( Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was married to Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death. As an advocate for African-American equality, she ...
* ''In This House of Brede'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''The Black Camels'' - Ronald Johnston


1970s


1970

Volume 80 - Winter * ''Waiting for Willa'' - Dorothy Eden * ''A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime'' - James Vance Marshall * ''T.R.'' - Noel B. Gerson * ''Heartsblood'' - Paul Marttin * ''The Witness'' -
Dorothy Uhnak Dorothy Uhnak (April 24, 1930 – July 8, 2006; née Goldstein) was an American novelist. Uhnak was born in New York City. She attended City College of New York and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Uhnak worked for 14 years as a detect ...
Volume 81 - Spring * ''Kim: A Gift from Vietnam'' - Frank W. Chinnock * '' Bless the Beasts & Children'' -
Glendon Swarthout Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist. Several of his novels were made into films. ''Where the Boys Are'', and ''The Shootist'', which was John Wayne's last work, are probably the bes ...
* ''Great Lion of God'' -
Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her mar ...
* ''I Chose Prison'' - James V. Bennett * ''Fiona'' - Catherine Gaskin Volume 82 - Summer * ''Operation Sippacik'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''The Secret Woman'' - Victoria Holt * ''Christiaan Barnard - One Life'' -
Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident-v ...
& Curtis Bill Pepper * '' The Song of Bernadette'' -
Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian- Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of ''The For ...
* ''The Shattered Dream'' - Gene Smith
Volume 83 - Autumn * ''Lone Woman'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson * ''
The Homecoming ''The Homecoming'' is a two-act play written in 1964 by Harold Pinter and first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony A ...
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Earl Hamner Jr. Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, ''The Waltons' ...
* '' Papillon'' -
Henri Charrière Henri Charrière (; 16 November 1906  – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted in 1931 as a murderer by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the novel '' Papillon'', a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a pena ...
* ''Whitewater'' -
Paul Horgan Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan (August 1, 1903 – March 8, 1995) was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes for Histo ...
* '' The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...


1971

Volume 84 - Winter * ''The Crossing'' -
Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Biography Early life Fast was born in New York City. His mother, ...
* ''Kinds of Love'' -
May Sarton May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American poet, novelist and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesb ...
* ''The Antagonists'' -
Ernest K. Gann Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation ...
* '' Love Story'' -
Erich Segal Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel ''Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Early life and education Born and raised in a J ...
* ''Another Part of the House'' - Winston M. Estes
Volume 85 - Spring * ''Halic: The Story of a Gray Seal'' -
Ewan Clarkson Ewan Clarkson (1929–2010) was an English author specialising in books about nature, particularly wild animals. Life and career Clarkson was born in Workington on 23 January 1929.''International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004'', Routled ...
* '' Time and Again'' -
Jack Finney Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney; October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American writer. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including '' The Body Snatchers'' and '' Time and Again''. The former was the ba ...
* ''Six-Horse Hitch'' -
Janice Holt Giles Janice Holt Giles (March 28, 1905 – June 1, 1979) was an American writer who lived near Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky. Personal life She was born Janice Meredith Holt on March 28, 1905, in Altus, Arkansas to John Albert Holt and Lucy El ...
* ''
Bomber A bomber is a military combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), launching torpedoes, or deploying air-launched cruise missiles. The first use of bombs dropped from an air ...
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Len Deighton Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels. After completing his national service in the Royal Air Fo ...
* ''A Woman in the House'' - Wm. E. Barrett Volume 86 - Summer * ''The White Dawn'' - James Houston * ''Risk'' - Rachel MacKenzie * ''Lifeboat Number Two'' -
Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...
* ''Because I Loved Him: The Life and Loves of
Lillie Langtry Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe (née Le Breton, formerly Langtry; 13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929), known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily", was a British socialite, stage actress and producer. Born on the isla ...
'' - Noel B. Gerson * '' The Sea of Grass'' - Conrad Richter * ''The Possession of Joel Delaney'' -
Ramona Stewart Ramona Stewart (February 19, 1922 – April 30, 2006) was an American author. She is best known for her 1946 novel ''Desert Town'' and the 1970 supernatural thriller '' The Possession of Joel Delaney'', both of which were adapted into films. ...

Volume 87 - Autumn * ''A Timeless Place'' - Ellen Bromfield Geld * ''The San Francisco Earthquake'' - Gordon Thomas &
Max Morgan-Witts Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931) is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV which he joined on January 9, 1956. He directed television shows for Granada, including ''T ...
* ''
Wheels A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing. The wheel is one of the key components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines. Wheels, in conjunction with axles, allow heavy objects to b ...
'' - Arthur Hailey * ''People I Have Loved, Known or Admired'' -
Leo Rosten Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography. Early life Rosten was born into a Yiddish-speaking family in Łód ...
* ''Summer of the Red Wolf'' -
Morris West Morris Langlo West (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1959), '' The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1963) and ''The Clowns of God'' (1981). His books were pub ...


1972

Volume 88 - Winter * '' The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''
The Winds of War ''The Winds of War'' is Herman Wouk's second book about World War II (the first being ''The Caine Mutiny''). Published in 1971, ''The Winds of War'' was followed up seven years later by ''War and Remembrance''; originally conceived as one volume, ...
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Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...
* ''The Runaways'' -
Victor Canning Victor Canning (16 June 1911 – 21 February 1986) was a prolific British writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews. ...

Volume 89 - Spring * ''Wild Goose, Brother Goose'' - Mel Ellis * ''Event 1000'' - David Lavallee * ''Bring Me a Unicorn'' -
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jerse ...
* ''Hearts'' - Thomas Thompson * ''
The Day of the Jackal ''The Day of the Jackal'' (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the Presid ...
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Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
Volume 90 - Summer * ''A Falcon for a Queen'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''Meeting With a Great Beast'' -
Leonard Wibberley Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley (9 April 1915 – 22 November 1983), who also published under the name Patrick O'Connor, among others, was an Irish author who spent most of his life in the United States. Wibberley, who published more than 100 ...
* ''Blockbuster'' -
Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...
* ''The Shape of Illusion'' - Wm. E.Barrett * ''Duel in the Snow'' - Hans Meissner
Volume 91 - Autumn * ''The Waltz Kings: Johann Strauss,
Father A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. An adoptive fathe ...
&
Son A son is a male offspring; a boy or a man in relation to his parents. The female counterpart is a daughter. From a biological perspective, a son constitutes a first degree relative. Social issues In pre-industrial societies and some current c ...
, and Their Romantic Age'' - Hans Fantel * ''
The Terminal Man ''The Terminal Man'' is a novel by American writer Michael Crichton. It is his second novel under his own name and his twelfth overall, and is about the dangers of mind control. It was published in April 1972, and also serialized in ''Playboy' ...
'' - Michael Crichton * ''The Dwelling Place'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''A World to Care For'' - Howard A. Rusk, MD * ''The Hessian'' -
Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Biography Early life Fast was born in New York City. His mother, ...


1973

Volume 92 - #1 * ''
The Stepford Wives ''The Stepford Wives'' is a 1972 satirical "feminist horror" novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, wife and young mother who suspects that something in Stepford's environment is changing the wives fr ...
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Ira Levin Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1953), '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1967), '' The Stepford Wives'' (1972), ''This Perfe ...
* ''
The Odessa File ''The Odessa File'' is a thriller by English writer Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1972, about the adventures of a young German reporter attempting to discover the location of a former SS concentration-camp commander. The name ODESSA ...
'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
* '' A Day No Pigs Would Die'' - Robert Newton Peck * ''Stanfield Harvest'' - Richard Martin Stern * '' P.S. Your Not Listening'' - Eleanor Craig Volume 93 - #2 * '' A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''The Camerons'' - Robert Crichton * ''The Japanese'' - Jack Seward * '' Green Darkness'' -
Anya Seton Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels". Career Seton published her first novel, ''My Theodosia'', in 1941. Seton ...

Volume 94 - #3 * ''Sadie Shapiro's Knitting Book'' -
Robert Kimmel Smith Robert Kimmel Smith (July 31, 1930 – April 18, 2020) was a novelist and award-winning American children's author. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York and first learned to read from his mother Sally. Smith was inspired to become a writer at age ...
* ''The Years of the Forest'' - Helen Hoover * '' The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'' - John Godey * ''The Curse of the Kings'' - Victoria Holt * ''Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian'' -
Richard Hough Richard Alexander Hough (; 15 May 1922 – 7 October 1999) was a British author and historian specializing in maritime history. Personal life Hough married the author Charlotte Woodyatt, whom he had met when they were pupils at Frensham Heigh ...
Volume 95 - #4 * ''La Balsa: The Longest Raft Voyage in History'' -
Vital Alsar Vital Alsar Ramírez (August 7, 1933 – September 15, 2020) was a sailor and scientist who made several extremely long sailing expeditions. His entire life was linked to nature and the sea. He became professor of economics, although he never a ...
with Enrique Hank Lopez * ''The Sunbird'' -
Wilbur Smith Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Zambian-born British-South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints ...
* ''State Trooper'' - Noel B. Gerson * ''The Search for Anna Fisher'' - Florence Fisher * ''Mrs. Starr Lives Alone'' - Jon Godden
Volume 96 - #5 * ''All Creatures Great and Small'' -
James Herriot James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to Eng ...
* ''The Salamander'' -
Morris West Morris Langlo West (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1959), '' The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1963) and ''The Clowns of God'' (1981). His books were pub ...
* ''A Thousand Summers'' -
Garson Kanin Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. Early life Garson Kanin was born in Rochester, New York; his family later relocated to Detroit then to New York City. He attended ...
* ''Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle'' - Gordon Thomas and
Max Morgan-Witts Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931) is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV which he joined on January 9, 1956. He directed television shows for Granada, including ''T ...


1974

Volume 97 - #1 * '' The Tower'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''
Incident at Hawk's Hill ''Incident at Hawk's Hill'' is a Newbery Honor book by naturalist and writer Allan W. Eckert published in 1971. Supposedly based on a true event, it is a historical novel centering on a six-year-old boy who gets lost on the Canadian prairie and ...
'' - Allan W. Eckert * ''Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir'' - Stewart Alsop * ''The Mountain Farm'' -
Ernest Raymond Ernest Raymond (31 December 1888 – 14 May 1974) was a British novelist, best known for his first novel, '' Tell England'' (1922), set in World War I. His next biggest success was ''We, the Accused'' (1935), generally thought to be a reworki ...
* ''The Thirteenth Trick'' -
Russell Braddon Russell Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, '' The Naked Island'', sold more than a million copies. Braddon ...

Volume 98 - #2 * ''A Member of the Family'' - Mary Carter * ''The Kappillan of Malta'' -
Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–45), but perhaps known best i ...
* ''In Darkness'' - Roger Bourgeon * ''
Jaws Jaws or Jaw may refer to: Anatomy * Jaw, an opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth ** Mandible, the lower jaw Arts, entertainment, and media * Jaws (James Bond), a character in ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' and ''Moonraker'' * ...
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Peter Benchley Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter, and ocean activist. He is known for his bestselling novel '' Jaws'' and co-wrote its film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works ...

Volume 99 - #3 * ''The Will of Magda Townsend'' -
Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...
* ''Forever Island'' - Patrick D. Smith * ''Thirty-Four East'' -
Alfred Coppel Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921 – May 30, 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started ...
* ''The Diddakoi'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''Lion in the Evening'' - Alan Scholefield Volume 100 - #4 * ''The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun'' -
Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...
* ''The Good Shepherd'' - Thomas Fleming * ''The Property of a Gentleman'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''His Majesty's U-Boat'' -
Douglas Reeman Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars. He ...
Volume 101 - #5 * ''The Other Room'' -
Borden Deal Borden Deal ( – ) was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Born Loysé Youth Deal in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Deal attended Macedonia Consolidated High School, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and fought f ...
* '' The Dogs of War'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
* ''All Things Bright and Beautiful'' -
James Herriot James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to Eng ...
* '' Malevil'' -
Robert Merle Robert Merle (; 28 August 1908 – 27 March 2004) was a French novelist. Early life Merle was born in 1908 in Tébessa, French Algeria. His father Félix, who was an interpreter "with a perfect knowledge of literary and spoken Arabic", was kille ...
* ''A Daughter of Zion'' -
Rodello Hunter Rodello is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. Rodello borders the following municipalities: Albaretto della Torre, Benevello, Diano ...


1975

Volume 102 - #1 * ''Our John Willie'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''
Centennial {{other uses, Centennial (disambiguation), Centenary (disambiguation) A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of 100 years. Notable events Notable centennial events at ...
'' - James A. Michener * ''Harlequin'' -
Morris West Morris Langlo West (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1959), '' The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1963) and ''The Clowns of God'' (1981). His books were pub ...
* ''Eric'' - Doris Lund Volume 103 - #2 * ''Lost!'' - Thomas Thompson * ''Baker's Hawk'' - Jack Bickham * ''The Physicians'' - Henry Denker * ''God and Mr. Gomez'' - Jack Smith * ''Eagle in the Sky'' -
Wilbur Smith Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Zambian-born British-South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints ...

Volume 104 - #3 * ''Mrs. 'arris Goes to Moscow'' -
Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...
* ''
The Moneychangers ''The Moneychangers'' is a 1975 novel written by Arthur Hailey. The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank. Plot summary As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, ''First Mercantile American'', ...
'' - Arthur Hailey * ''The Massacre at Fall Creek'' - Jessamyn West * ''Collision'' - Spencer Dunmore Volume 105 - #4 * ''Where are the Children?'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Earthsound'' -
Arthur Herzog Arthur Herzog III (April 6, 1927 – May 26, 2010) was an American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist, well known for his works of science fiction and true crime books. He was the son of songwriter Arthur Herzog, Jr. He was married ...
* '' The Eagle Has Landed'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...
* ''Daylight Must Come'' -
Alan Burgess Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an English Royal Air Force pilot and author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s. He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward, and Flora Sandes, and ...
* ''The Wind at Morning'' - James Vance Marshall
Volume 106 - #5 * ''Lord of the Far Island'' - Victoria Holt * ''Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the
Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...
'' - Alexander Dolgun with Patrick Watson * ''Minnie Santangelo's Mortal Sin'' -
Anthony Mancini Anthony Mancini KGOHS (born November 27, 1945) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth. He retired on November 27, 2020. Biography Early life Born in Mignano Monte Lungo, near Napl ...
* ''A Sporting Proposition'' -
James Aldridge Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, ...
* ''Power'' - Richard Martin Stern


1976

Volume 107 - #1 * '' The Great Train Robbery'' - Michael Crichton * ''I Take Thee, Serenity'' - Daisy Newman * '' Bill W.'' - Robert Thomsen * ''
A Town Like Alice ''A Town Like Alice'' (United States title: ''The Legacy'') is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner ...
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Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect ...
Volume 108 - #2 * ''The Hostage Heart'' -
Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...
* ''They Came to Stay'' - Marjorie Margolies & Ruth Gruber * ''The Tide of Life'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''Swan Watch'' - Budd Schulberg * ''Drummer in the Dark'' - Francis Clifford (author), Francis Clifford
Volume 109 - #3 * ''Liberty Tavern'' - Thomas Fleming * ''The Pilot'' - Robert Davis (authot), Robert Davis * ''Touch Not the Cat'' - Mary Stewart * ''The Boys from Brazil (novel), The Boys from Brazil'' -
Ira Levin Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1953), '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1967), '' The Stepford Wives'' (1972), ''This Perfe ...
Volume 110 - #4 * ''The Distant Summer'' - Sarah Patterson (author), Sarah Patterson * ''The Olmec Head'' - David Westheimer * ''The Matthew Tree'' - H. T. Wright * ''The Splendid Torments'' -
Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...
* ''Harry's Game'' - Gerald Seymour
Volume 111 - #5 * ''The Pride of the Peacock'' - Victoria Holt * "Bobbitt" - Thomas Tryon (novelist), Thomas Tryon * ''The Experiment'' - Henry Denker * ''Ordinary People (Guest novel), Ordinary People'' - Judith Guest * ''Storm Warning (Higgins novel), Storm Warning'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...


1977

Volume 112 - #1 * ''Mrs. Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''The R Document'' -
Irving Wallace Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. Early life Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bessie Liss a ...
* ''Home Before Dark'' - Sue Ellen Bridgers * ''The Glory Boys'' - Gerald Seymour * ''The Spuddy'' - Lillian Beckwith
Volume 113 - #2 * ''The Slow Awakening'' - Catherine Marchant * ''Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, 19 Steps Up the Mountain'' - Joseph P. Blank * ''Ghost Fox'' - James Houston * ''In the Frame'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...

Volume 114 - #3 * ''Tisha'' - Robert Specht (author), Robert Specht * ''The Dragon'' -
Alfred Coppel Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921 – May 30, 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started ...
* ''Oliver's Story'' -
Erich Segal Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel ''Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Early life and education Born and raised in a J ...
* ''Majesty'' - Robert Lacey * ''Overboard'' -
Hank Searls Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included ''The Crowded Sky'' (1960), which was adapted as the 1960 movie of the same name; ''The Pilgrim Project'' (1964), which was ad ...
Volume 115 - #4 * ''The Stone Bull'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Enola Gay'' - Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan Witts * ''Sadie Shapiro in Miami'' -
Robert Kimmel Smith Robert Kimmel Smith (July 31, 1930 – April 18, 2020) was a novelist and award-winning American children's author. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York and first learned to read from his mother Sally. Smith was inspired to become a writer at age ...
* ''The Scofield Diagnosis'' - Henry Denker Volume 116 - #5 * ''The Melodeon'' -
Glendon Swarthout Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist. Several of his novels were made into films. ''Where the Boys Are'', and ''The Shootist'', which was John Wayne's last work, are probably the bes ...
* ''Full Disclosure'' - William Safire * ''Bel Ria'' - Sheila Burnford * ''Chase the Wind'' - E. V. Thompson * ''The Fan'' - Bob Randall (author), Bob Randall


1978

Volume 117 - #1 * ''Snowbound Six'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''The Summer of the Spanish Woman'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''Elephants in the Living Room, Bears in the Canoe'' - Earl & Liz Hammond with Elizabeth Levy * ''Arrest Sitting Bull'' - Douglas C. Jones * ''I Can Jump Puddles'' - Alan Marshall (Australian author), Alan Marshall
Volume 118 - #2 * ''Jaws 2'' -
Hank Searls Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included ''The Crowded Sky'' (1960), which was adapted as the 1960 movie of the same name; ''The Pilgrim Project'' (1964), which was ad ...
* ''The Education of Little Tree'' - Asa Earl Carter, Forrest Carter * ''The Practice'' - Dr. Alan E. Nourse * ''Excellency'' - David Beaty (author), David Beaty
Volume 119 - #3 * ''A Stranger is Watching'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''The Miracle of Dommatina'' - Ira Avery * ''The Last Convertible'' - Anton Myrer * ''Such a Life'' - Edith LaZebnik Volume 120 - #4 * ''My Enemy the Queen'' - Victoria Holt * ''The Good Old Boys'' - Elmer Kelton * ''By the Rivers of Babylon'' - Nelson DeMille * ''Breakpoint'' - William Brinkley
Volume 121 - #5 * ''Summer Lightning'' - Judith Richards * ''Tara Kane'' - George Markstein * ''Flight into Danger'' - Arthur Hailey & John Castle * ''Raquela; A Woman Of Israel'' - Ruth Gruber * ''The Snake'' - John Godey


1979

Volume 122 - #1 * ''Eye of the Needle (novel), Eye of the Needle'' - Ken Follett * ''Orphan Train'' - James Magnuson & Dorothea Petrie * ''Overload (novel), Overload'' - Arthur Hailey * ''A Dangerous Magic'' - Frances Lynch Volume 123 - #2 * ''Dinah, Blow Your Horn'' - Jack Bickham * ''War and Remembrance'' -
Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...
* ''How I Got to be Perfect'' - Jean Kerr
Volume 124 - #3 * ''Sunflower'' - Marilyn Sharp * ''Running Proud'' -
Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–45), but perhaps known best i ...
* ''Error of Judgment'' - Henry Denker * ''A Walk Across America'' - Peter Jenkins (travel author), Peter Jenkins Volume 125 - #4 * ''Sphinx (novel), Sphinx'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''Cold is the Sea'' - Capt. Edward L. Beach Jr. * ''Words by Heart'' - Ouida Sebestyen * ''The North Runner'' - R. D. Lawrence * ''Intruder'' - Louis Charbonneau
Volume 126 - #5 * ''Hungry as the Sea'' -
Wilbur Smith Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Zambian-born British-South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints ...
* ''The Tightrope Walker'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''The Passing Bells'' - Phillip Rock * ''Flesh and Spirit'' - Elizabeth Christman


1980s


1980

Volume 127 - #1 * ''Domino'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Passage West'' - Dallas Miller * ''Horowitz and Mrs. Washington'' - Henry Denker * ''To Catch a King'' - Harry Patterson
Volume 128 - #2 * ''Emma and I'' - Sheila Hocken * ''The Devil's Alternative'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
* ''The Capricorn Stone'' - Madeleine Brent * ''Flood'' - Richard Martin Stern Volume 129 – M * ''Amanda/Miranda'' - Richard Peck (writer), Richard Peck * ''Ice Brothers'' - Sloan Wilson * ''The Small Outsider'' - Joan Martin Hundley * ''The Silver Falcon'' - Evelyn Anthony Volume 130 - #3 * ''Thursday's Child '' - Victoria Poole * ''Random Winds'' - Belva Plain * ''A Very Private War'' -
Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...
* ''Control Tower'' - Robert P. Davis
Volume 131 - #4 * ''Sadie Shapiro, Matchmaker'' -
Robert Kimmel Smith Robert Kimmel Smith (July 31, 1930 – April 18, 2020) was a novelist and award-winning American children's author. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York and first learned to read from his mother Sally. Smith was inspired to become a writer at age ...
* ''The Cradle Will Fall'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Man, Woman and Child'' -
Erich Segal Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel ''Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Early life and education Born and raised in a J ...
* ''Bess Truman, Bess and Harry Truman, Harry: An American Love Story'' - Jhan Robbins * ''The Wolf and the Buffalo'' - Elmer Kelton
Volume 132 - #5 * ''No Job for a Lady'' - Phyllis Lose, V.M.D. * ''The Key to Rebecca'' - Ken Follett * ''The Old Neighborhood'' - Avery Corman * ''A Piano for Mrs. Cimino'' - Robert Oliphant (author), Robert Oliphant * ''The Gold of Troy'' - Robert L. Fish


1981

Volume 133 - #1 * ''The Aviator'' -
Ernest K. Gann Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation ...
* ''The Covenant (novel), The Covenant'' - James A. Michener * ''Hope'' - Richard Meryman * ''Bullet Train'' - Joseph Rance & Arei Kato
Volume 134 - #2 * ''One Child'' - Torey Hayden * ''Banners of Silk'' - Rosalind Laker * ''The Gentle Jungle'' - Toni Ringo Helfer * ''Reflex'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...

Volume 135 – M * ''Lincoln's Mothers: A Story of Nancy Lincoln, Nancy and Sally Lincoln'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson * ''The Last Step'' - Rick Ridgeway * ''All the Days were Summer'' - Jack M. Bickham * ''Flight to Landfall'' - Gerald Glaskin, G.M. Glaskin Volume 136 - #3 * ''Still Missing'' - Beth Gutcheon * ''A Princess in Berlin'' - Arthur Solmssen * ''The Warfield Syndrome'' - Henry Denker * ''The Dam'' - Robert Byrne (writer), Robert Byrne
Volume 137 - #4 * ''The Lord God Made Them All'' -
James Herriot James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to Eng ...
* ''An Exceptional Marriage'' - Jack Shepherd (writer), Jack Shepherd * ''Texas Dawn'' - Phillip Finch * ''Crossing in Berlin'' -
Fletcher Knebel Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, but relocated a number of times during his youth. He graduated from high school in Y ...

Volume 138 - #5 * ''Vermilion'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Totaled'' - Frances Rickett & Steven McGraw * ''Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower, Mamie: The Story of the General and His Lady'' - Lester David & Irene David * ''The Dark Horse'' -
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
* ''Fortress'' - Gabrielle Lord


1982

Volume 139 - #1 * ''Through the Narrow Gate'' - Karen Armstrong * ''Noble House (book), Noble House'' - James Clavell * ''The Judas Kiss'' - Victoria Holt
Volume 140 - #2 * ''Alone Against the Atlantic'' - Gerry Spiess (with Marlin Bree) * ''A Green Desire'' - Anton Myrer * ''Going Wild: Adventures of a Zoo Vet'' - David Taylor (vet), David Taylor * ''The Man Who Lived at the Ritz'' - A. E. Hotchner
Volume 141 - M * ''Fever (Cook novel), Fever'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2'' - Peter Jenkins (travel author), Peter Jenkins * ''Gilded Splendour'' - Rosalind Laker * ''Twice Shy'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
Volume 142 - #3 * ''The Man from St. Petersburg'' - Ken Follett * ''Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier'' - Joanna Stratton * ''No Escape'' - Joseph Hayes * ''The Citadel (novel), The Citadel'' -
A.J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...

Volume 143 - #4 * ''Flanagan's Run'' - Tom McNab * ''A Parting Gift'' - Frances Sharkey, M.D. * ''The Big Bridge'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''Last Quadrant'' - Meira Chand
Volume 144 - #5 * ''Jane's House'' -
Robert Kimmel Smith Robert Kimmel Smith (July 31, 1930 – April 18, 2020) was a novelist and award-winning American children's author. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York and first learned to read from his mother Sally. Smith was inspired to become a writer at age ...
* ''China: Alive In The Bitter Sea'' - Fox Butterfield * ''Promises'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''Outrage'' - Henry Denker


1983

Volume 145 - #1 * ''A Cry in the Night (novel), A Cry in the Night'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Indian Summer of the Heart'' - Daisy Newman * ''Touch the Devil'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...
* ''The Winter of the White Seal'' - Marie Herbert
Volume 146 - #2 * ''Pacific Interlude'' - Sloan Wilson * ''The Whip'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''Open Heart'' - Mary Bringle * ''Banker'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...

Volume 147 - M * ''The Girl of the Sea of Cortez'' -
Peter Benchley Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter, and ocean activist. He is known for his bestselling novel '' Jaws'' and co-wrote its film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works ...
* ''Jedder's Land'' - Maureen O'Donoghue * ''Run Before the Wind'' - Stuart Woods * ''Impressionist: A Novel of Mary Cassatt'' - Joan King (author), Joan King Volume 148 - #3 * ''Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''The Brea File'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Growing Up (memoir), Growing Up'' - Russell Baker * ''Octavia's Hill'' - Margaret Dickson
Volume 149 - #4 * ''The Secret Annie Oakley'' - Marcy Heidish * ''Talk Down'' - Brian Lecomber * ''Jewelled Path'' - Rosalind Laker * ''A Solitary Dance'' - Robert Lane (author), Robert Lane
Volume 150 - #5 * ''Godplayer (novel), Godplayer'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Suitcases'' - Anne Hall Whitt * ''The Time of the Hunter's Moon'' - Victoria Holt * ''Stalking Point'' - Duncan Kyle


1984

Volume 151 - #1 * ''The Children's Game'' - David Wise (journalist), David Wise * ''Beyond All Frontiers'' - Emma Drummond * ''The Incredible Journey'' - Sheila Burnford * ''From This Day Forward'' - Nancy Rossi
Volume 152 - #2 * ''Arnie, The Darling Starling'' - Margarete Sigl Corbo & Diane Marie Barras * ''Night Sky'' - Clare Francis * ''The Canyon'' - Jack Schaefer * ''If We Could Hear the Grass Grow'' - Eleanor Craig
Volume 153 - M * ''The Cop and The Kid'' - William Price Fox, William Fox with Noel Hynd * ''Tiger, Tiger'' - Philip Caveney * ''Kincaid'' - Henry Denker * ''The Whale of the Victoria Cross'' - Pierre Boulle Volume 154 - #3 * ''Skyscraper'' - Robert Byrne (author), Robert Byrne * ''A Shine of Rainbows'' - Lillian Beckwith * ''The Reckoning'' - Phillip Finch * ''Lady Washington'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Volume 155 - #4 * ''Nop's Trials'' - Donald McCaig * ''Lee and Grant'' - Gene Smith * ''Murder and the First Lady'' - Elliott Roosevelt (general), Elliott Roosevelt * ''Jennie About To Be'' - Elisabeth Ogilvie Volume 156 - #5 * ''Hanna and Walter'' - Hanna Kohner, Hanna & Walter Kohner * ''Stormswift'' - Madeleine Brent * ''The Sound of Wings'' - Spencer Dunmore * ''Surprise Party'' - William Katz


1985

Volume 157 - #1 * ''Lovestrong'' - Dorothy Greenbaum, MD & Deidre Laiken * ''Stillwatch'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Crescent City'' - Belva Plain * ''The Wild Children'' - Felice Holman
Volume 158 - #2 * ''Julie'' -
Catherine Marshall Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd (27 September 1914 – 18 March 1983) was an American author of nonfiction, inspirational, and fiction works. She was the wife of well-known minister Peter Marshall. Biography Marshall was born in Johnson ...
* ''Strong Medicine (novel), Strong Medicine'' - Arthur Hailey * ''Polsinney Harbour'' - Mary E. Pearce * ''Proof'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...

Volume 159 - M * ''The State of Stony Lonesome'' - Jessamyn West * ''At The Going Down of the Sun'' - Elizabeth Darrell (writer), Elizabeth Darrell * ''Callanish'' - William Horwood (novelist), William Horwood * ''Find a Safe Place'' - Alexander Lazzarino & E. Kent Hayes Volume 160 - #3 * ''In Love and War'' - Jim Stockdale, Jim & Sybil Stockdale * ''Ringo, the Robber Raccoon'' - Robert Franklin Leslie * ''This Giving Heart'' - Hugh Miller (author), Hugh Miller * ''Twilight Child'' - Warren Adler
Volume 161 - #4 * ''Robert, My Son'' - Henry Denker * ''The Bannaman Legacy'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''The Cheetahs'' -
Alan Caillou Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe MBE, M.C. (9 November 1914 – 1 October 2006), who wrote under the name Alan Caillou, was an English-born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Biography Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in ...
* ''This Shining Land'' - Rosalind Laker
Volume 162 - #5 * ''Voices on the Wind'' - Evelyn Anthony * ''Trauma'' - John Fried & John G. West, MD * ''The Donkey's Gift'' - Thomas M. Coffey * ''The Double Man'' - William Cohen & Gary Hart


1986

Volume 163 - #1 * ''Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''Wildfire'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''Arnie & a House Full of Company'' - Margarete Corbo & Diane Marie Barras * ''Take Away One'' - Thomas Froncek * ''The Two Farms'' - Mary Pearce
Volume 164 - #2 * ''An Ark on the Flood'' - Anne Knowles (author), Anne Knowles * ''The Seventh Secret'' -
Irving Wallace Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. Early life Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bessie Liss a ...
* ''Come Spring'' - Charlotte Hinger * ''Break In'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...

Volume 165 - M * ''Deep Lie'' - Stuart Woods * ''Bess Truman, Bess W. Truman: An American Courtship'' - Margaret Truman * ''In A Place Dark and Secret'' - Phillip Finch * ''The Summer of the Barshinskeys'' - Diane Pearson Volume 166 - #3 * ''Lie Down with Lions'' - Ken Follett * ''Tree of Gold'' - Rosalind Laker * ''The Deep End'' - Joy Fielding * ''Cry Wild'' - R. D. Lawrence
Volume 167 - #4 * ''Silversword'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Texas (novel), Texas'' - James Michener * ''Bracken'' - Elizabeth Webster Volume 168 - #5 * ''The Judgment'' - Howard Goldfluss * ''Kaffir Boy'' - Mark Mathabane * ''Unnatural Causes'' - Mark Olshaker * ''Queen Dolley Madison, Dolley'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson


1987

Volume 169 - #1 * ''A Matter of Honour, A Matter of Honor'' - Jeffrey Archer * ''The Golden Cup'' - Belva Plain * ''Stepping Down from the Star'' - Alexandra Costa * ''A Deadly Presence'' - Hjalmer Thesen Volume 170 - #2 * ''A Place To Hide'' - Evelyn Anthony * ''A Time For Heroes'' - Will Bryant * ''East and West'' -
Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...
* ''Nightshade'' - Gloria Murphy
Volume 171 - M * ''Carter's Castle'' - Wilbur Wright (author), Wilbur Wright * ''New Orleans Legacy'' - Alexandra Ripley * ''To Kill the Potemkin'' - Mark Joseph (author), Mark Joseph * ''Anne Frank Remembered'' - Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold Volume 172 - #3 * ''Bolt'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''The Night Lives On'' -
Walter Lord John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', '' A Night to Remember''. Biography Early life Lor ...
* ''The Choice'' - Henry Denker * ''The Ladies of Missalonghi'' - Colleen McCullough * ''Night of the Fox'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...

Volume 173 - #4 * ''Windmills of the Gods'' - Sidney Sheldon * ''Unholy Matrimony'' - John Dillmann * ''The Silver Touch'' - Rosalind Laker * ''Outbreak (novel), Outbreak'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook
Volume 174 - #5 * ''Patriot Games'' - Tom Clancy * ''Snow on the Wind'' - Hugh Miller (witer), Hugh Miller * ''Memoirs of an Invisible Man'' - H. F. Saint * ''The Man Who Rode Midnight'' - Elmer Kelton


1988

Volume 175 - #1 * ''Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''Not Without My Daughter (book), Not Without My Daughter'' - Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer * ''The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall'' - Ridley Pearson * ''O Come Ye Back to Ireland'' - Niall Williams (writer), Niall Williams & Christine Breen
Volume 176 - #2 * ''Hot Money'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''Jenny's Mountain'' - Elaine Long * ''Trespass'' - Phillip Finch * ''Sara Dane'' - Catherine Gaskin
Volume 177 - M * ''Wolf Winter'' - Clare Francis * ''Johnnie Alone'' - Elizabeth Webster * ''Man With a Gun'' - Robert Daley * ''Winner'' - Maureen O'Donoghue Volume 178 - #3 * ''Mortal Fear (novel), Mortal Fear'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''Just Another Kid'' - Torey Hayden * ''Rockets' Red Glare'' - Greg Dinallo * ''Brownstone Facade'' - Catherine M. Rae
Volume 179 - #4 * ''Tsunami'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''The Harrogate Secret'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''The Charm School (novel), The Charm School'' - Nelson DeMille * ''A Walk in the Dark'' - Joyce Stranger
Volume 180 - #5 * ''The India Fan'' - Victoria Holt * ''Mannequin'' - Robert Byrne (author), Robert Byrne * ''Lady of No Man's Land'' - Jeanne Williams * ''Wildtrack'' - Bernard Cornwell


1989

Volume 181 - #1 * ''A Gift of Life'' - Henry Denker * ''Daddy'' - Loup Durand * ''Norman Rockwell's Greatest Painting'' - Hollis Hodges * ''Murder in the Oval Office'' - Elliott Roosevelt (general), Elliott Roosevelt
Volume 182 - #2 * ''The Edge'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''Alaska (novel), Alaska'' - James Michener * ''Thornyhold'' - Mary Stewart Volume 183 - M * ''Doctors (novel), Doctors'' -
Erich Segal Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel ''Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Early life and education Born and raised in a J ...
* ''Gracie Allen, Gracie'' - George Burns * ''The Giant's Shadow'' - Thomas Bontly * ''The Toothache Tree'' - Jack Galloway (author), Jack Galloway Volume 184 - #3 * ''Morning Glory'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''Toy Soldiers'' - William P. Kennedy * ''Trail'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Prospect'' - Bill Littlefield
Volume 185 - #4 * ''While My Pretty One Sleeps'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''The Bailey Chronicles'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''The Negotiator (novel), The Negotiator'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
* ''Hallapoosa'' - Robert Newton Peck
Volume 186 - #5 * ''Killer's Wake'' - Bernard Cornwell * ''Blessings'' - Belva Plain * ''Grass Roots (novel), Grass Roots'' - Stuart Woods * ''Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Edith'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson


1990s


1990

Volume 187 - #1 * ''Tiebreaker'' - Jack Bickham * ''What was Good About Today'' - Carol Kruckeberg * ''California Gold'' - John Jakes * ''Monkeys on the Interstate'' - Jack Hanna w/ John Stravinsky
Volume 188 - #2 * ''Straight'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''No Roof But Heaven'' - Jeanne Williams * ''The Evening News'' - Arthur Hailey * ''The Courtship of Peggy McCoy'' - Ray Sipherd
Volume 189 - M * ''The Lady of the Labyrinth'' - Caroline Llewellyn * ''The Himmler Equation'' - William P. Kennedy * ''Flying Free'' - Dan True * ''A Time to Love'' - Beryl Kingston Volume 190 - #3 * ''Harmful Intent (novel), Harmful Intent'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Flight of the Swan'' - Elizabeth Webster * ''The Estuary Pilgrim'' - Douglas Skeggs * ''Manifest Destiny'' - Brian Garfield
Volume 191 - #4 * ''Cold Harbour'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...
* ''Circle of Pearls'' - Rosalind Laker * ''The Grizzly King, The Bear'' - James Oliver Curwood * ''Finders Keepers'' - Barbara Nickolae
Volume 192 - #5 * ''Harvest'' - Belva Plain * ''Purpose of Evasion'' - Greg Dinallo * ''Snare of Serpents'' - Victoria Holt * ''Coyote Waits'' - Tony Hillerman


1991

Volume 193 - #1 * ''Trial'' - Clifford Irving * ''September (novel), September'' - Rosamunde Pilcher * ''The White Puma'' - R. D. Lawrence * ''Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...

Volume 194 - #2 * ''Longshot'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''The Women in His Life'' - Barbara Taylor Bradford * ''Crackdown'' - Bernard Cornwell * ''Something to Hide'' - Patricia Robinson (writer), Patricia Robinson
Volume 195 - #3 * ''The Firm (novel), The Firm'' - John Grisham * ''Payment in Full'' - Henry Denker * ''Final Approach'' - John J. Nance * ''Home Ground'' - Hugh Miller (writer), Hugh Miller Volume 196 - #4 * ''As the Crow Flies (novel), As the Crow Flies'' - Jeffrey Archer * ''Home Mountain'' - Jeanne Williams * ''MacKinnon's Machine'' - S. K. Wolf * ''Seal Morning'' - Rowena Farre
Volume 197 - #5 * ''The Eagle Has Flown'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...
* ''Aspen Gold'' - Janet Dailey * ''The Ice'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Lightning in July'' - Ann L. McLaughlin
Volume 198 - #6 * ''Loves Music, Loves to Dance'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Lost and Found'' - Marilyn Harris (writer), Marilyn Harris * ''Condition Black'' - Gerald Seymour * ''Escape Into Light'' - Elizabeth Webster


1992

Volume 199 - #1 * ''Night Over Water'' - Ken Follett * ''Doctor on Trial'' - Henry Denker * ''Beast (Benchley novel), Beast'' -
Peter Benchley Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter, and ocean activist. He is known for his bestselling novel '' Jaws'' and co-wrote its film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works ...
* ''Dear Family'' - Camilla Bittle
Volume 200 - #2 * ''Comeback'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''Scarlett (Ripley novel), Scarlett'' - Alexandra Ripley * ''The Deceiver (novel), The Deceiver'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
Volume 201 - #3 * ''Acts of Faith'' -
Erich Segal Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel ''Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Early life and education Born and raised in a J ...
* ''Hard Fall'' - Ridley Pearson * ''Bygones'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''The Stormy Petrel'' - Mary Stewart Volume 202 - #4 * ''Such Devoted Sisters'' - Eileen Goudge * ''Rules of Encounter'' - William P. Kennedy * ''The Love Child'' -
Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...
* ''American Gothic'' - Gene Smith (writer), Gene Smith
Volume 203 - #5 * ''The Pelican Brief'' - John Grisham * ''Treasures'' - Belva Plain * ''Eye of the Storm'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...
* ''The Island Harp'' - Jeanne Williams
Volume 204 - #6 * ''Tangled Vines'' - Janet Dailey * ''Stalk'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Anna'' - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles * ''The Leading Lady'' - Betty White & Tom Sullivan (author), Tom Sullivan


1993

Volume 205 - #1 * ''Every Living Thing'' -
James Herriot James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to Eng ...
* ''All Around the Town'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Colony'' - Anne Rivers Siddons * ''Death Penalty'' - William J. Coughlin
Volume 206 - #2 * ''Driving Force'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''Sotah'' - Naomi Ragen * ''The Doll's House'' - Evelyn Anthony * ''The Bears and I'' - Robert Franklin Leslie
Volume 207 - #3 * ''Mrs. Washington and Horowitz, Too'' - Henry Denker * ''Point of Impact (Stephen Hunter novel), Point of Impact'' - Stephen Hunter * ''November of the Heart'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''Shooting Script'' - Gordon Cotler Volume 208 - #4 * ''The Client (novel), The Client'' - John Grisham * ''Sweet Water'' - Christina Baker Kline * ''Slow Through Eden'' - Gordon Glasco * ''The Longest Road'' - Jeanne Williams
Volume 209 - #5 * ''Thunder Point'' -
Jack Higgins Henry "Harry" Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1975) so ...
* ''The Venetian Mask'' - Rosalind Laker * ''Final Argument'' - Clifford Irving * ''Whispers'' - Belva Plain
Volume 210 - #6 * ''The Cat Who Went Into the Closet'' - Lillian Jackson Braun * ''Homeland'' - John Jakes * ''Tell Me No Secrets'' - Joy Fielding


1994

Volume 211 - #1 * ''I'll Be Seeing You'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Honour Among Thieves (Jeffrey Archer novel), Honour Among Thieves'' - Jeffrey Archer * ''Alex Haley's Queen'' - Alex Haley with David Stevens * ''Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...

Volume 212 - #2 * ''Without Remorse'' - Tom Clancy * ''The Old House at Railes'' - Mary Pearce * ''Decider'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''King of the Hill'' - A. E. Hotchner
Volume 213 - #3 * ''A Dangerous Fortune'' - Ken Follett * ''The Select'' - F. Paul Wilson * ''Rivers of Gold'' - Janet Edmonds * ''Hardscape'' - Justin Scott (writer), Justin Scott Volume 214 - #4 * ''Fatal Cure (novel), Fatal Cure'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Wrong House'' - Carol McD. Wallace * ''Red Ink'' - Greg Dinallo * ''Having Our Say'' - Sarah Louise Delany, Sadie and Annie Elizabeth Delany, Bessie Delany
Volume 215 - #5 * ''Daybreak'' - Belva Plain * ''Disclosure (novel), Disclosure'' - Michael Crichton * ''St. Agnes' Stand'' - Tom Eidson * ''The Fist of God'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...

Volume 216 - #6 * ''Hidden Riches'' - Nora Roberts * ''Phoenix Rising'' - John J. Nance, John Nance * ''Roommates'' - Max Apple * ''White Harvest'' - Louis Charbonneau


1995

Volume 217 - #1 * ''The Chamber (novel), The Chamber'' - John Grisham * ''Remember Me (Mary Higgins Clark novel), Remember Me'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''The Intruders (novel), The Intruders'' - Stephen Coonts * ''The Acorn Winter'' - Elizabeth Webster (author), Elizabeth Webster
Volume 218 - #2 * ''Tiger's Child'' - Torey Hayden * ''Heat'' - Stuart Woods * ''This Child is Mine'' - Henry Denker * ''Wall of Brass'' - Robert Daley
Volume 219 - #3 * ''Prizes (novel), Prizes'' -
Erich Segal Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel ''Love Story'' (1970) and its hit film adaptation. Early life and education Born and raised in a J ...
* ''Secret Missions'' - Michael Gannon (historian), Michael Gannon * ''Eyes of a Child (novel), Eyes of a Child'' - Richard North Patterson * ''More Than Meets the Eye'' - Joan Brock & Derek Gill (nonfiction), Derek Gill Volume 220 - #4 * ''Acceptable Risk (novel), Acceptable Risk'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''Local Rules'' - Jay Brandon * ''Salem Street'' - Anna Jacobs * ''Fast Forward'' - Judy Mercer
Volume 221 - #5 * ''The Rainmaker (John Grisham), The Rainmaker'' - John Grisham * ''The Carousel'' - Belva Plain * ''Wedding Night'' - Gary Devon * ''Cloud Shadows'' - Elizabeth Webster (author), Elizabeth Webster
Volume 222 - #6 * ''Let Me Call You Sweetheart'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''Children of the Dust'' - Clancy Carlile * ''Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion-Killer'' -
Dorothy Gilman Dorothy Edith Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espiona ...
* ''The Magic Bullet'' - Harry Stein (author), Harry Stein


1996

Volume 223 - #1 * ''A Place Called Freedom'' - Ken Follett * ''The Horse Whisperer (book), The Horse Whisperer'' - Nicholas Evans * ''The Apocalypse Watch'' - Robert Ludlum Volume 224 - #2 * ''Come To Grief'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''Coming Home'' - Rosamunde Pilcher * ''Blaze'' - Robert Somerlott * ''That Camden Summer'' - LaVyrle Spencer
Volume 225 - #3 * ''The Final Judgment'' - Richard North Patterson * ''Nathan's Run'' - John Gilstrap * ''Dance of the Scarecrows'' - Ray Sipherd * ''Implant'' - F. Paul Wilson Volume 226 - #4 * ''Notorious'' - Janet Dailey * ''Snow Wolf'' - Glenn Meade * ''The Cat Who Said Cheese'' - Lilian Jackson Braun * ''Mirage'' - Soheir Khashoggi
Volume 227 - #5 * ''The Zero Hour'' - Joseph Finder * ''Rose (novel), Rose'' - Martin Cruz Smith * ''A Place For Kathy'' - Henry Denker * ''The Judge'' - Steve Martini
Volume 228 - #6 * ''Moonlight Becomes You'' -
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
* ''The Outsider'' - Penelope Williamson * ''Harvest'' - Tess Gerritsen * ''The Falconer'' - Elaine Clark McCarthy


1997

Volume 229 - #1 * ''The Runaway Jury'' - John Grisham * ''Critical Judgment'' - Michael Palmer (novelist), Michael Palmer * ''Icon (novel), Icon'' -
Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...
* ''Capitol Offense'' - Barbara Mikulski, Senator Barbara Mikulski & Mary Louise Oates
Volume 230 - #2 * ''The Third Twin'' - Ken Follett * ''Small Town Girl'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''To the Hilt'' -
Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...
* ''The Burning Man'' - Phillip Margolin
Volume 231 - #3 * ''A Woman's Place'' - Barbara Delinsky * ''The Unlikely Spy'' - Daniel Silva (novelist), Daniel Silva * ''The Cat Who Tailed a Thief'' - Lilian Jackson Braun * ''Beyond Recognition'' - Ridley Pearson Volume 232 - #4 * ''The Escape Artist'' - Diane Chamberlain * ''Airframe (novel), Airframe'' - Michael Crichton * ''Weeding Out the Tears'' - Jeanne White with Susan Dworkin * ''Infinity's Child'' - Harry Stein (author), Harry Stein These 1997 volumes were also published as ''
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