Books: Books, Oct. 17, 1977

Editor's Choice

FICTION:

Kingkill, Thomas Gavin

The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth

Sacred Families, José Donoso

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

The Widower's Son, Alan Sillitoe

NONFICTION:

Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys

Ring, Jonathan Yardley

The Totalitarian Temptation, Jean-François Revel

We Must March My Darlings, Diana Trilling

William Morris, E.P. Thompson

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week)

2. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (3)

3. Illusions, Bach (4)

4. Dynasty, Elegant (6)

5. Coma, Cook (9)

6. The Crash of'79, Erdman (2)

7. Daniel Martin, Fowles

8. Delta of Venus, Nin (5)

9. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carre (7)...

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