Editors' Choice

FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth -The Collected Stories of Colette, edited by Robert Phelps Life and Times of Michael K. J.M. Coetzee -Pitch Dark, Renata Adler Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury - Shame, Salman Rushdie

NONFICTION: Alex, the Life of a Child, Frank Deford -The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Peter Watson Characters and Their Landscapes, Ronald Blythe -The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin - Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose -A Warsaw Diary: 1978-81, Kazimierz Brandys