New York Times News Service
FICTION Last week/Weeks on list
1. Winter Solstice, 1/1
by Rosamunde Pilcher
2. Dust to Dust, 2/1
by Tami Hoag
3. Not A Day Goes By, 3/3
by E. Lynn Harris
4. The House on Hope Street, 4/6
by Danielle Steel
5. Omerta, 5/5
by Mario Puzo
6. Mr. Perfect, 6/2
by Linda Howard
7. Riptide, 7/4
by Catherine Coulter
8. Purple Cane Road, 8/1
by James Lee Burke
9. Nora, Nora, 9/3
by Anne Rivers Siddons
10. The Indwelling, 10/11
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
NONFICTION
1. It's Not About the Bike, 1/12
by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins
2. Tuesdays with Morrie, 2/148
by Mitch Albom
3. Life on the Other Side, 3/3
by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison
4. American Rhapsody, 4/3
by Joe Eszterhas
5. Flags Of Our Fathers, 5/14
by James Bradley with Ron Powers
6. Me Talk Pretty One Day, 6/12
by David Sedaris
7. The Day John Died, 7/4
by Christopher Andersen
8. In the Heart of the Sea, 8/13
by Nathaniel Philbrick
9. In a Sunburned Country, 9/9
by Bill Bryson
10. The Greatest Generation, 10/88
by Tom Brokaw
ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. Who Moved my Cheese? 1/39
by Spencer Johnson
2. Body for Life, 2/48
by Bill Phillips with Michael D'Orso
3. Ten Things I Wish I'd Known — Before I went out into The Real World, 3/16
by Maria Shriver
4. Relationship Rescue, 4/12
by Phillip C. McGraw
5. Simple Abundance, 5/128
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Rankings reflect sales figures at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent sales in all such outlets nationwide. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above.