NIGHT-TABLE READING

Who reads what between the sheets

ARTS FAIR/BOOKS

BEVERLY SILLS (general director, New York City Opera): Lincoln: A Novel, by Gore Vidal (Random House); The Kennedys: An American Drama, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Summit).

SUSAN CHEEVER (writer): Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie (Random House); Baby and Child Care, by Dr. Benjamin Spock (E. P. Dutton); The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni (Biblio).

DAVID LETTERMAN (talk-show host): Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam, by Joe Klein (Knopf); Hemingway in Cuba, by Norberto Fuentes (Citadel).

MITCH GAYLORD (gymnast): Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, by Bob Woodward (Simon and Schuster); Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street, by David McClintick (William Morrow).

PAUL MCCARTNEY (musician): The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock, by Charles White (Harmony).