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The Prospects Are Pleasing, by Honor Tracy. A satiric jig danced on the thin skin of the Irish.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Holly Golightly gets stuck with a no-carat man every time.
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. Among men who know field marshals best, Monty candidly picks Monty.
Leyte, by Samuel Eliot Morison. A matchless chronicle of one of history's unmatched naval engagements.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, by the great Russian poet who won 1958's Nobel Prize but was forced by Big Brotherland to refuse it.
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. In the night sky of literary erotica, no falling starlet shines quite like Nabokov's Dolly.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Doctor Zhivago Pasternak (1)* 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (3) 4. From the Terrace, O'Hara (4) 5. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (5) 6. Exodus, Uris (6) 7. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (7) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. Victorine, Keyes (8) 10. The King Must Die, Renault
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (3) 4. Wedemeyer Reports! (4) 5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen (8) 7. The Three Edwards, Costain 8. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington 9. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (6) 10. Brave New World Revisited, Huxley (9)
*All times E.S.T.
*Position Position on last week's list.