Editors' Choice

FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera sb A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone sb The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty sb Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. sb Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess sb Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino sb The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble

NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel sb The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly sb Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong sb Naming Names, Victor Navasky sb Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers sb Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan sb Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Covenant, Michener (1 last week)

2. Side Effects, Allen (2)

3. Firestarter, King (4)

4. Unfinished Tales, Tolkien (3)

5. Answer As a Man, Caldwell (5)

6. The Key to Rebecca, Follett (6)

7. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (7)

8. Loon Lake, Doctorow (10)

9. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre (9)

10. Come Pour the Wine, Freeman (8)

NONFICTION

1. Cosmos, Sagan (I)

2. Crisis Investing, Casey (2)

3. Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman (4)

4. The Sky's the Limit, Dyer (6)

5. Time Enough to Win, Staubach (5)

6. The Coming Currency Collapse, Smith (3)

7. Goodbye, Darkness, Manchester (7)

8. Number 1, Martin & Golenbock (8)

9. Ingrid Bergman: My Story, Bergman & Burgess (9)

10. You Can Negotiate Anything, Cohen

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