Books: Editors’ Choice

FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré∙The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth∙ Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison ∙Transatlantic Blues, Wilfrid Sheed

NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr The Last Cowboy, Jane Kramer Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, Franz Kafka

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week)

2. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (2)

3. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carré (3)

4. The Black Marble, Wambaugh (5)

5. Bloodline, Sheldon

6. Dreams Die First, Robbins (7) 1. Beggarman, Thief, Shaw (6)

8. Illusions, Bach (4)

9. Rachel, The Rabbi’s Wife, Tennenbaum

10. The Women’s Room, French

NONFICTION

1. The Complete Book of Running, Fixx (I)

2. The Second Ring of Power, Castaneda (3)

3. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot (2)

4. The Amityville Horror, Anson (5)

5. Coming into the Country, McPhee (8)

6. My Mother/My Self, Friday (6) 1. Dispatches, Herr

8. Looking Out for # 1, Ringer

9. The Book of Lists, Wallechinsky. I.&A. Wallace (4)

10. Gnomes, Huygen & Poortvliet (7)