Books: Editors’ Choice

FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy, William Wharton Dubin’s Lives, Bernard Malamud Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever

NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ E.M. Forster: A Life, P. N. Furbank ∙ In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ The Ides of August, Curtis Cate ∙ Thoughts in a Dry Season. Gerald Brenan

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. War and Remembrance, Wouk (1 last week)

2. Overload, Hailey (2)

3. Chesapeake, Michener (3)

4. The Stories of John Cheever, Cheever (4)

5. Fools Die, Puzo (6)

6. The Coup, Updike (8)

7. Second Generation, Fast (9)

8. Dress Gray, Truscott (10)

9. Evergreen, Plain (7)

10. The World According to Garp, Irving

NONFICTION

1. Lauren Bacall by Myself. Bacall(l)

2. Mommie Dearest, Crawford (2)

3. A Distant Mirror, Tuchman (3)

4. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower & Baker (4)

5. In Search of History, White (6)

6 Linda Goodman’s Love Signs. Goodman (7)

7. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries−What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Bombeck (8)

8. American Caesar, Manchester (5)

9. The Ann Landers Encyclopedia A to Z, Landers

10. Gnomes, Huygen & Poortvliet (10)