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Women and Thomas Harrow, by John P. Marquand. Once again beyond the Point of No Return, this time on a lifelong journey between Broadway and New England.
A World of Strangers, by Nadine Gordimer. South Africa's best novelist probes the fate of a middle-of-the-roader trapped in the pitiless struggle of white v. black.
Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet affirms in Russia's greatest novel since the Revolution that not even Communism can destroy his people's hopes and humanity.
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Lolita, Nabokov (1)
2. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (2)
3. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (3)
4. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (4)
5. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (5)
6. The Enemy Camp, Weidman (7)
7. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (6)
8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick
9. The King Must Die, Renault (10)
10. The Bramble Bush, Mergendahl (9)
NON-FICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (2)
2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (1)
3. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington (3)
4. The Affluent Society, Galbraith (6)
5. Inside Russia Today, Gunther (4)
6. On My Own, Roosevelt (7)
7. Kids Say the Darndest Things!, Linkletter (5)
8. The Insolent Chariots, Keats (9)
9. The New Testament in Modern English, translated by Phillips
10. More in Sorrow, Gibbs
(Numbers in parentheses indicate last week's position.)
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