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nm OOKRE LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2i. 1W 1984 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES NOMINATIONS Please enjoy the fifth anniversary of a literary celebration, recognizing 26 remarkable books published between fall of 1983 and fall, 1984. These nominees represent the consensus of 80 book critics, contributors to Book Review who are not staff members of the newspaper. Final choices by the judges, also outside The Times staff, will be announced in the November 4 issue of Book Review.

Meanwhile, each of these nominated books will be reconsidered for its merits in the weeks to come considerable merits when a reader realizes that these selections represent excellence and elegance from a field of 40,000 titles published in the United States each year. What follows is a reading list combining delight, language, wisdom and argument a validation of the pleasures and promises kept by the printed word. Biography Fiction TT7.v "Stones for Ibarra' une ruer neginmngs by Harriet Doerr (Viking) by Eudora Welty (Harvard Univ. Press) "The Witches ofEastwick' "Dashiell Hammett: A Life' by John Updike (Knopf) "Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories" by Saul Bellow (Harper Row) "Democracy" by Joan Didion (Simon Schuster) "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim (Harper Row) History "The Rise of Industrial America: A People's History of the Post-Reconstruction Era" by Page Smith (McGraw-Hill) "The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman (Knopf) "The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History" by Robert Darnton (Basic Books) "The Bourgeois Experience: Education of the Senses" by Peter Gay (Oxford) "The Discoverers" by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random House) by Diane Johnson (Random House) "Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859" by Joseph Frank (Princeton Univ.) "The Nightmare Years, by William Shirer (Little, Brown) "The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel (Farrar, Straus Giroux) Poetry "The Maximus Poems" by Charles Olson (Univ.

of California) "Sweeney Astray: A Version From the Irish" by Seamus Heaney (Farrar, Straus Giroux) "Selected Poems" by Philip Levine (Atheneum) "A Wave" by John Ashbery (Viking) "Aime Cesaire: The Collected Poetry" translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith (Univ. of California) "Willingly" by Tess Gallagher (Graywolf Press) Current Interest "In the Freud Archives" by Janet Malcolm (Knopf) "In Exile From the Land of Snows" by John Avedon (Knopf) "Weapons and Hope" by Freeman Dyson (BessieHarper Row) "Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation" by Myra MacPherson (Doubleday) "Cities and the Wealth of Nations" by Jane Jacobs (Random House).