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The Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems, by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The first book-length chance U.S. readers have had to become acquainted with the two greatest poets of 20th century Greece and with their timely and timeless sense of the past.
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George Kennan. There is grace and reflective melancholy in this highly informative chronicling of U.S.-Russian relations, 1917-45.
The Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams, and The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. More impressive proof, if any is needed, that a prime Southern crop is superior first novels.
Best Sellers ( √ previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)
FICTION
1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*
√2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2)
√3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (3)
√4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4)
5. Don't Tell Alfred, Mitford
6. China Court, Godden
7. Mila 18, Uris
8. The Incredible Journey, Burnford
9. Hawaii, Michener (6)
10. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (8)
NONFICTION
√1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)
√3. The New English Bible (3)
√4. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4)
5. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5)
√6. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (8)
√7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (7)
8. The Sixth Man, Stearn
9. Reality in Advertising, Reeves (9)
10. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser (6)
* All times are E.D.T., * Position on last week's list.