Books: Jan. 12, 1981

Editors’ Choice

FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙ A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. ∙ Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble

NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O’Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Covenant, Michener (1 last week)

2. Side Effects, Allen (2)

3. Firestarter, King (4)

4. Unfinished Tales, Tolkien (3)

5. Answer As a Man, Caldwell (5)

6. The Key to Rebecca, Follett (6)

7. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (7)

8. Loon Lake, Doctorow (10)

9. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre (9)

10. Come Pour the Wine, Freeman (8)

NONFICTION

1. Cosmos, Sagan (I)

2. Crisis Investing, Casey (2)

3. Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman (4)

4. The Sky’s the Limit, Dyer (6)

5. Time Enough to Win, Staubach (5)

6. The Coming Currency Collapse, Smith (3)

7. Goodbye, Darkness, Manchester (7)

8. Number 1, Martin & Golenbock (8)

9. Ingrid Bergman: My Story, Bergman & Burgess (9)

10. You Can Negotiate Anything, Cohen

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