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JESUS REDISCOVERED, by Malcolm Muggeridge. The 66-year-old British cultural curmudgeon writes tellingly of the ways, means and meditations that led to his conversion to Christianity.
FAT CITY, by Leonard Gardner. A brilliant exception to the general rule that boxing fiction seldom graduates beyond the level of caricature.
BIRDS, BEASTS AND RELATIVES, by Gerald Durrell. Zoology begins at home, or at least that's the way it seems to Naturalist Durrell, who recalls his boyhood infatuation with animals and his family's strained tolerance of some of the things that followed him into the house.
THE COST OF LIVING LIKE THIS, by James Kennaway. An intense and coldly realistic novel about a man's coming to terms with two women who love him and the cancer that is pinching off his life.
THE FRENCH: PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE, by Sanche de Gramont. Only the cuisine comes off unscathed in this analysis vinaigrette of the French national character.
COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. The novelist repeatedly drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."
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3. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (5)
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5. The Promise, Potok (8)
6. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (3)
7. The Pretenders, Davis (4)
8. In This House of Brede, Godden
9. A Place in the Country, Gainham (10)
10. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald
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1. My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy, Gallagher (2)
2. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1)
3. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (3)
4. My Life and Prophecies, Dixon and Noorbergen (7)
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6. The Honeycomb, St. Johns (5)
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10. The American Heritage Dictionary
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