BEST-SELLERS

JAMES & HIS GIANT REACH

James Patterson brings in a bouquet of green for his publisher. His new thriller, the self-evidently titled Violets Are Blue (900,000 copies in print after three pressruns), debuts at No. 2. Violets is Patterson's third hardcover best-seller of 2001. Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (900,000 copies in print after eight pressruns) jumps three spots to No. 3 this week. What with his recent National Book Award, there are now four editions of his novel: the original, the Oprah-logoed, the NBA-stickered, and the NBA-stickered, Oprah-logoed. All this for an author who wanted his book jacket unsullied by endorsements.

FICTION WEEKS ON LIST

1 SKIPPING CHRISTMAS John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 3 2 VIOLETS ARE BLUE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $27.95 1 3 THE CORRECTIONS Jonathan Franzen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 12 4 LAST MAN STANDING David Baldacci, Warner, $26.95 3 5 THE FIERY CROSS Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte, $27.95 3 6 THE PILLARS OF CREATION Terry Goodkind, Tor, $29.95 1 7 DESECRATION: ANTICHRIST TAKES THE THRONE Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, Tyndale, $24.99 4 8 FLESH AND BLOOD Jonathan Kellerman, Random House, $26.95 1 9 THE SIGMA PROTOCOL Robert Ludlum, St. Martin's Press, $27.95 4 10 THE BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS Selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, Hyperion, $21.95 8

NONFICTION

1 THE NO SPIN ZONE: CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE POWERFUL AND FAMOUS IN AMERICA Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $24.95 6 2 THE FINAL DAYS: THE LAST, DESPERATE ABUSES OF POWER BY THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE Barbara Olson, Regnery, $27.95 6 3 JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT Jack Welch with John A. Byrne, Warner, $29.95 11 4 ONE NATION: AMERICA REMEMBERS SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Life Magazine Editors, Little, Brown, $29.95 1 5 JOHN ADAMS David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $35 27 6 THE PRAYER OF JABEZ Bruce Wilkinson, Multnomah, $9.99 41 7 THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL Stephen Hawking, Bantam, $35 3 8 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 100 9 HOW I PLAY GOLF Tiger Woods with the editors of Golf Digest, Warner, $34.95 7 10 THE LOST SON: A LIFE IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE Bernard B. Kerik, ReganBooks, $26.50 2

SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY