NIGHT-TABLE READING

Who reads what between the sheets

SEIJI OZAWA (conductor): Koroshi no Yonin, by Shotaro Ikenami (Kodansha). "I can't wait to get home to finish reading this one. It's great escapist reading. It centers on what you might call a samurai hit man."

PHILIP GRAMM (U.S. senator): Texas, by James Michener (Random House). "Like most of Michener's books, it can be long and laborious, but it's about one of the world's most interesting and important subjects."

WARREN B. RUDMAN (U.S. senator): On the Meaning of Victory: Essays on Strategy, by Edward N. Luttwak (Simon and Schuster), and The Triumph of Politics, by David Stockman (Harper & Row).

BERNADETTE PETERS (actress): Death of a Woman, by Jane Hollister Wheelwright (St. Martin's). "An important book about courage and a woman using the dying process as a way of learning how to live."

DAVID EISENHOWER (writer): Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-1964, by Peter Golenbock (PrenticeHall). "I'm a latent fan. In a good year, I'd follow them wherever I am. But these were their glory years."