'CUBA' GOODIES

Even the relatively stodgy world of military fiction isn't immune to livin' la vida loca: Cuba, Stephen Coonts' latest techno-thriller (250,000 copies in print after a single pressrun), has hero Jake Grafton enmeshed in yet another round of political intrigue -- this time involving hidden warheads in Guantanamo Bay and a dying Fidel Castro. And we thought Saddam Hussein had it bad in South Park.

FICTION WEEKS ON LIST

1 BLACK NOTICE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 3 2 ASSASSINS Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Tyndale House, $22.99 3 3 HANNIBAL Thomas Harris, Delacorte, $27.95 11 4 WHITE OLEANDER Janet Fitch, Little, Brown, $24 16 5 THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING Melissa Bank, Viking, $23.95 13 6 MOTHER OF PEARL Melinda Haynes, Hyperion, $23.95 10 7 GRANNY DAN Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $19.95 8 8 THE EDGE Catherine Coulter, Putnam, $22.95 3 9 THE TESTAMENT John Grisham, Doubleday, $27.95 29 10 CUBA Stephen Coonts, St. Martin's, $24.95 1

NONFICTION

1 SUZANNE SOMERS' GET SKINNY ON FABULOUS FOOD Suzanne Somers, Crown, $24 16 2 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 94 3 THE OTHER SIDE AND BACK Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, Dutton, $23.95 4 4 THE ART OF HAPPINESS The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, Riverhead, $22.95 27 5 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 10 6 YESTERDAY, I CRIED Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $22 14 7 LIFE STRATEGIES Philip C. McGraw, Hyperion, $21.95 14 8 BILL AND HILLARY: THE MARRIAGE Christopher Andersen, Morrow, $27.50 3 9 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart, Ballantine, $22 66 10 THE GREATEST GENERATION Tom Brokaw, Random House, $24.95 37

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1 THE PILOT'S WIFE Anita Shreve, Little, Brown/Back Bay, $13.95 21 2 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Vintage, $14 31 3 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE COLLEGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, K. Kirberger, and D. Clark, Health Communications, $12.95 3 4 HEALING BACK PAIN John E. Sarno, Warner, $13.99 3 5 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, S&S/Touchstone, $14 13 6 SUZANNE SOMERS' EAT GREAT, LOSE WEIGHT Suzanne Somers, Three Rivers, $15 9 7 THE SEAT OF THE SOUL Gary Zukav, S&S/Fireside, $12 34 8 DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD Rebecca Wells, HarperPerennial, $13.50 80 9 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Vintage, $12 7 10 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $10.95 116

SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY