Books: Editor's Choice: Sep. 14, 1981

FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sábato ∙Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban ∙The Testament, Elie Wiesel ∙Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth

NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg

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FICTION

1. Cujo, King (1 last week)

2. The Third Deadly Sin, Sanders (2)

3. Goodbye, Janette, Robbins (3)

4. Noble House,...

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