Surprise, surprise: The three installments of J.K. Rowling's smash Harry Potter series -- the tale of a young wizard's coming of age -- have been locked into the top children's fiction spots since September, with the inaugural tome, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, leading the way. (Together the three books have a bewitching 14.6 million copies in print). And so far, no Muggles seem to be challenging their standings.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 TIMELINE Michael Crichton, Knopf, $26.95 1 2 SAVING FAITH David Baldacci, Warner, $26.95 2 3 A WALK TO REMEMBER Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $19.95 7 4 POP GOES THE WEASEL James Patterson, Little, Brown, $26.95 5 5 HUNTING BADGER Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, $26 2 6 IRRESISTIBLE FORCES Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $26.95 3 7 PERSONAL INJURIES Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27 8 8 ''O'' IS FOR OUTLAW Sue Grafton, Holt, $26 6 9 BLUE AT THE MIZZEN Patrick O'Brian, Norton, $24 4 10 HEARTS IN ATLANTIS Stephen King, Scribner, $28 10
NONFICTION
1 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 107 2 HAVE A NICE DAY! Mick Foley, ReganBooks, $25 5 3 'TIS Frank McCourt, Scribner, $26 9 4 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2000: MILLENNIUM EDITION Guinness Publishing, $25 10 5 THE NEW NEW THING Michael Lewis, Norton, $25.95 3 6 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, 79 Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart, Ballantine, $22 7 THE GREATEST GENERATION Tom Brokaw, Random House, $24.95 45 8 WHEN PRIDE STILL Mattered David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, $26 8 9 THE EDUCATED CHILD William J. Bennett, Chester E. Finn Jr., and John T.E. Cribb Jr., The Free Press, $30 2 10 RIVER HORSE William Least Heat-Moon, Houghton Mifflin, $26 2
CHILDREN'S FICTION
1 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Levine, $5.99 2 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Levine, $19.95 3 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Levine, $17.95 4 HOLES Louis Sachar, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16 5 LITTLE BO: THE STORY OF BONNIE BOADICEA Julie Andrews Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole, Hyperion, $16.99 CHILDREN'S NONFICTION
1 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL Jack Canfield et al., Health Communications, $12.95 2 OPHELIA SPEAKS: ADOLESCENT GIRLS WRITE ABOUT THEIR SEARCH FOR SELF Sara Shandler, HarperPerennial, $12.95 3 DON'T GIVE IT AWAY Iyanla Vanzant, Fireside, $11 4 ON RELATIONSHIPS: A BOOK FOR TEENAGERS Kimberly Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 5 DEAL WITH IT! A WHOLE NEW APPROACH TO YOUR BODY, BRAIN, AND LIFE AS A GURL Esther Drill, Heather McDonald, and Rebecca Odes, Pocket, $15
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