(3 of 3)
Plus an encouraging group of uncommonly good first books:
The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, the story of a young hood, at its snarling best when describing the wrong side of the Pittsburgh tracks; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, an affecting description of a single man's slow, unheroic but dignified death; A Long Row to Hoe, by Billy C. Clark, an autobiographical sketch of a poverty-stricken Kentucky boy, as American as Huck Finn; and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper' Lee, a brilliantly written tale about the awakening to good and evil of an engagingly eccentric little Alabama girl.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (3)*
2. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (1)
3. Hawaii, Michener (2)
4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4)
5. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (5)
6. Water of Life, Robinson (7)
7. The Lovely Ambition, Chase
8. Diamond Head, Oilman (8)
9. The Affair, Snow (6)
10. Before You Go, Weidman
NONFICTION
1. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas (5)
2. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1)
3. Born Free, Adamson (2)
4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4)
5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3)
6. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (7)
7. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (8)
8. The Good Years, Lord (10)
9. Enjoy, Enjoy! Golden
10. Mr. Citizen, Truman (6)
*All times E.D.T.
* Position on last week's list.