Books: Best Sellers: Mar. 2, 1981

FICTION:

1. The Covenant, Michener (1 last week)

2. Brain, Cook

3. Answer as a Man, Caldwell (4)

4. Aztec, Jennings (10)

5. Firestarter, King (3)

6. Come Pour the Wine, Freeman (7)

7. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (5)

8. Unfinished Tales, Tolkien (8)

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

10. Side Effects, Allen

NONFICTION:

1. Cosmos, Sagan (2)

2. The Last Mafioso, Demaris

3. Nice Girls Do, Kassorla (1)

4. You Can Negotiate Anything, Cohen (7)

5. Crisis Investing, Casey (3)

6. Richard Simmons’ Never-Say-Diet Book, Simmons (8)

7. Betty Crocker’s International Cookbook (4)

8. Best Evidence, Lifton (5)

9. Reagan the Man, the President, Smith et al.

10. The Sky’s the Limit, Dyer (9)

Computed by TIME from more than 1,000 participatingbookstores.