Just in time to fill the legal thriller void left when John Grisham's The Testament faded from the fiction chart is Scott Turow's Personal Injuries (630,000 copies in print after two pressruns). The tale of a judicial sting involving a corrupt yet likable lawyer is garnering stellar notices -- some of the best of Turow's career. On the nonfiction side, 'Tis is holding steady at No. 1, while Edmund Morris' much-debated Gipper memoir debuts at No. 2, with 425,000 copies in print. No doubt Random House considers the ruckus surrounding the book a real Dutch treat.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 PERSONAL INJURIES Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27 1 2 HEARTS IN ATLANTIS Stephen King, Scribner, $28 3 3 TARA ROAD Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $24.95 17 4 THE ALIBI Sandra Brown, Warner, $25.95 5 5 BLACK NOTICE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 9 6 BIG TROUBLE Dave Barry, Putnam, $23.95 3 7 ASSASSINS Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Tyndale House, $22.99 9 8 HARD TIME Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, $24.95 3 9 IN PURSUIT OF THE PROPER SINNER Elizabeth George, Bantam, $25.95 5 10 HANNIBAL Thomas Harris, Delacorte, $27.95 17
NONFICTION
1 'TIS Frank McCourt, Scribner, $26 2 2 DUTCH: A MEMOIR OF RONALD REAGAN Edmund Morris, Random House, $35 1 3 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 100 4 FAITH OF MY FATHERS John McCain with Mark Salter, Random House, $25 4 5 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart, Ballantine, $22 72 6 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2000: MILLENNIUM EDITION Guinness Publishing, $25.95 3 7 THE ART OF HAPPINESS His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, Riverhead, $22.95 33 8 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 16 9 SUZANNE SOMERS' GET SKINNY ON FABULOUS FOOD Suzanne Somers, Crown, $24 22 10 LIFE STRATEGIES Phillip C. McGraw, Hyperion, $21.95 20
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, S&S/Touchstone, $14 19 2 THE PILOT'S WIFE Anita Shreve, Little, Brown/Back Bay, $13.95 27 3 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver, HarperPerennial, $14 2 4 THE SEAT OF THE SOUL Gary Zukav, S&S/Fireside, $12 39 5 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Vintage, $14 37 6 THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC 2000 Edited by Judson D. Hale, Villard, $5.95 3 7 IN THE MEANTIME Iyanla Vanzant, S&S/Fireside, $13 5 8 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE UNSINKABLE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and H. McNamara, Health Communications, $12.95 3 9 THE READER Bernhard Schlink, Vintage, $11 32 10 WHERE THE HEART IS Billie Letts, Warner, $12 42
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
