Editors' Choice

FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul sb Collected Stories, Paul Bowles sb Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame sb Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill sb Sophie's Choice, William Styron sb Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey sb The Living End, Stanley Elkin

NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser sb I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann & Samuel Charters sb The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff sb The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels sb The White Album, Joan Didion sb When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Sophie's Choice, Styron (1 last week)

2. The Matarese Circle, Ludlum (2)

3. The Last Enchantment, Stewart (5)

4. Class Reunion, Jaffe (3)

5. Shibumi, Trevanian (7)

6. The Island, Benchley (4)

7. War and Remembrance, Wouk (8)

8. There's No Such Place as Far Away, Bach (6)

9. The Third World War, Hackett, et al.(9)

10. Chesapeake, Michener (10)

NONFICTION

1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower & Baker (1)

2. Cruel Shoes, Martin (2)

3. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady (3)

4. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (5)

5. Broca's Brain, Sagan (9)

6. The Powers That Be, Halberstam (4)

7. The Medusa and the Snail, Thomas (7)

8. The Bronx Zoo, Lyle & Golenbock (8)

9. The White Album, Didion (6)

10. Energy Future, edited by Stobaugh & Yergin

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