Ooh, a best-selling political memoir that has nothing to do with tainted frocks and snowy-haired philanderers? Get out. John McCain's stirring chronicle of his forebears shoots to No. 6 in its first week: Faith of My Fathers (180,000 copies in print after three pressruns) details his grandfather's and father's distinguished military runs, as well as the Arizona senator's own harrowing stint as a POW in Vietnam. Elsewhere on the nonfiction list, starry-eyed advice guru John Gray details his own familial philosophy in Children Are From Heaven.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 BLACK NOTICE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 6 2 THE ALIBI Sandra Brown, Warner, $25.95 2 3 TARA ROAD Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $24.95 14 4 ASSASSINS Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Tyndale House, $22.99 6 5 IN PURSUIT OF THE PROPER SINNER Elizabeth George, Bantam, $25.95 2 6 DARK LADY Richard North Patterson, Knopf, $25.95 3 7 HANNIBAL Thomas Harris, Delacorte, $27.95 14 8 THE KILLING GAME Iris Johansen, Bantam, $23.95 2 9 MOTHER OF PEARL Melinda Haynes, Hyperion, $23.95 13 10 FAMILY HONOR Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $22.95 1
NONFICTION
1 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 97 2 CHILDREN ARE FROM HEAVEN John Gray, HarperCollins, $25.95 1 3 LIFE STRATEGIES Phillip C. McGraw, Hyperion, $21.95 17 4 THE ART OF HAPPINESS His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, Riverhead, $22.95 30 5 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 13 6 FAITH OF MY FATHERS John McCain with Mark Salter, Random House, $25 1 7 YESTERDAY, I CRIED Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $22 17 8 DIANA IN SEARCH OF HERSELF Sally Bedell Smith, Times Books, $25 4 9 THE GREATEST GENERATION Tom Brokaw, Random House, $24.95 40 10 ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Riverhead, $24.95 4
