--- description: 1. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (2 last week)2. Cujo, King (1)3. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley (3)4. Noble House, Clavell (4)5. The Legacy, Fast (6)6. The Third Deadly Sin, Sanders (5)7. Remembrance,... title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Oct. 26, 1981 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Fiction: Best Sellers: Oct. 26, 1981 by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 26, 1981 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 26, 1981 5:00 AM CUT 1\. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (2 last week) 2\. Cujo, King (1) 3\. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley (3) 4\. Noble House, Clavell (4) 5\. The Legacy, Fast (6) 6\. The Third Deadly Sin, Sanders (5) 7\. Remembrance, Steel 8\. The Last Days of America, Erdman 9\. Gorky Park, Smith (10) 10\. Goodbye, Janette, Robbins (7) NONFICTION 1\. The Beverly Hills Diet, Mazel (1) 2\. Richard Simmons’ Never-Say-Diet Book, Simmons (2) 3\. How to Make Love to a Man, Penney (3) 4\. The Lord God Made Them All, Herriot (4) 5\. Turn Your Kitchen into a Gold Mine, Howard 6\. Living Alone and Liking It, Shahan (5) 7\. The Cinderella Complex, Dowling (6) 8\. Theory Z, Ouchi (9) 9\. The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder (8) 10\. You Can Negotiate Anything, Cohen ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6858911/fiction-best-sellers-oct-26-1981/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6858911/fiction-best-sellers-oct-26-1981/"},"headline":"Fiction: Best Sellers: Oct. 26, 1981","datePublished":"1981-10-26T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T16:51:04.285Z","description":"1. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (2 last week)2. Cujo, King (1)3. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley (3)4. Noble House, Clavell (4)5. The Legacy, Fast (6)6. The Third Deadly Sin, Sanders (5)7. Remembrance,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6858911/fiction-best-sellers-oct-26-1981/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6858911/fiction-best-sellers-oct-26-1981/","name":"Fiction: Best Sellers: Oct. 26, 1981"}}]}] ```