Night-table Reading

Will Schwalbe, William Morrow editorial director:Lying in Bed,byJ. D. Landis (Algonquin). "This is the most erotic novel I've read in years—it even has rumpled sheets on the jacket."

Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux editor in chief:A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden,by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd (Little, Brown). "An enthralling evocation of the lushness that can be wrung out of a northern garden—and the work it takes."

Sonny Mehta, Knopf president and editor in chief: The Grandmother's Tale, by R. K. Narayan (Viking), A House for Mr. Biswas, byV.S. Naipaul (Everyman's Library),The Rainmaker, by John Grisham (Doubleday), andPaula,by Isabel Allende (FlarperCollins). "I have a tendency to read more than one book at a time."

Phyllis Grann, Putnam chairman and chief executive officer: The Juror,by George Dawes Green (Warner). "This is a courtroom drama that truly feels as if it were pulled straight from current news headlines."