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THE WINNING 'BASKET'
Readers suffering from the winter blues sought refuge in Carl Hiaasen's latest tale of South Floridian mishap. Basket Case (200,000 copies in print after two pressruns) debuts at No. 5 this week, buoyed by the author's sunny appearance on the Today show. In nonfiction, those anxious to keep their New Year's resolutions may have propelled Bob Greene's new fitness tome straight to No. 1. But Get With the Program! (250,000 copies in print) may soon have to fend off Bernard Goldberg's scathing critique of network news. His Bias, which jumps from No. 11 to No. 6, is strong.
FICTION
WEEKS ON LIST
1 SKIPPING CHRISTMAS John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 8 2 ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN Dean Koontz, Bantam, $26.95 2 3 THE CORRECTIONS Jonathan Franzen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 17 4 VIOLETS ARE BLUE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $27.95 6 5 BASKET CASE Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $25.95 1 6 LAST MAN STANDING David Baldacci, Warner, $26.95 8 7 JACKDAWS Ken Follett, Dutton, $26.95 4 8 A BEND IN THE ROAD Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $23.95 15 9 THE BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS Selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, Hyperion, $21.95 13 10 DESECRATION: ANTICHRIST TAKES THE THRONE Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, Tyndale, $24.99 9
NONFICTION
1 GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Bob Greene, Simon & Schuster, $24 1 2 JOHN ADAMS David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $35 32 3 THEODORE REX Edmund Morris, Random House, $35 6 4 JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT Jack Welch with John A. Byrne, Warner, $29.95 16 5 THE PRAYER OF JABEZ Bruce Wilkinson, Multnomah, $9.99 46 6 BIAS: A CBS INSIDER EXPOSES HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE NEWS Bernard Goldberg, Regnery, $27.95 2 7 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 105 8 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 123 9 BACK TO THE TABLE: THE REUNION OF FOOD AND FAMILY Art Smith, Hyperion, $29.95 4 10 THE NO SPIN ZONE: CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE POWERFUL AND FAMOUS IN AMERICA Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $24.95 11
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
