(3 of 3)
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George Kennan. A graceful, informative account of the relations between Russia and the West, 1917-45.
The Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams, and The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. The small-town South (Mississippi) and the big-city South (New Orleans) chronicled with arresting talent.
Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The fire of Racine's tragedy and the froth of Beaumarchais' farce evoked with sense and sensitivity.
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. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (8)
6. Hawaii, Michener (6)
√ 7. Midcentury, Dos Passos (7)
8. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (10)
9. A Shooting Star, Stegner
10. Advise and Consent, Drury (5)
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. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser (6)
√ 7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (7)
√ 8. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (8)
9. Reality in Advertising, Reeves (10)
√ 10. Skyline, Fowler
*All times are E.D.T. *Position on last week's list.