(3 of 3)
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Political huggermugger in Alexandria, saltily told by a gifted writer.
The Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. Some odd fish on view in Manhattan's gin-filled aquariums.
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A New Zealand schoolmarm with a gift for teaching and for life, described in an exceptionally good first novel.
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A skillful, honest and haunting love story.
Best Sellers -FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (1)* 2. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 3. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (2) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5) 5. Lolita, Nabokov (4) 6. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (6) 7. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (7) 8. From the Terrace, O'Hara (8) 9. The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, Taylor 10. The Hourglass, Gilbert NONFICTION 1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1) 2. Only in America, Golden (2) 3. The Status Seekers, Packard (4) 4. How I Turned $1,000 Into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (5) 5. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (10) 6. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9) 7. My Brother Was an Only Child, Douglas (7) 8. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet ( 3 ) 9. Brotherhood of Evil, Sondern (6) 10. Eat Well and Stay Well, Ancel and Margaret Keys (8)
* All times E.D.T. -Position on last week's list.