The New York Times Best Seller List 

May 14, 1972
Fiction

This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List 

1 THE WORD, by Irving Wallace.  2/8
2 THE WINDS OF WAR, by Herman Wouk.  1/25
3 CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS, by Taylor Caldwell. 4/3
4 THE EXORCIST, by William Peter Blatty.  3/48
5 MY NAME IS ASHER LEV, by Chaim Potok.  --/1
6 JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL, by Richard Bach. --/2
7 THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, by George V. Higgins. 5/7
8 THE ASSASSINS, by Elia Kazan.  10/11
9 THE BLUE KNIGHT, by Joseph Wambaugh.  9/9
10 WHEELS, by Arthur Hailey.  6/33