Books: Editors’ Choice

FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Collected Stories, Paul Bowles ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sophie’s Choice, William Styron ∙ Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin

NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann & Samuel Charters ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Sophie’s Choice, Styron (1 last week)

2. The Matarese Circle, Ludlum (2)

3. The Last Enchantment, Stewart (5)

4. Class Reunion, Jaffe (3)

5. Shibumi, Trevanian (7)

6. The Island, Benchley (4)

7. War and Remembrance, Wouk (8)

8. There’s No Such Place as Far Away, Bach (6)

9. The Third World War, Hackett, et al.(9)

10. Chesapeake, Michener (10)

NONFICTION

1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower & Baker (1)

2. Cruel Shoes, Martin (2)

3. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady (3)

4. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (5)

5. Broca’s Brain, Sagan (9)

6. The Powers That Be, Halberstam (4)

7. The Medusa and the Snail, Thomas (7)

8. The Bronx Zoo, Lyle & Golenbock (8)

9. The White Album, Didion (6)

10. Energy Future, edited by Stobaugh & Yergin