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Oprah snubbed her sentimental side for this month's book club pick, opting instead for Drowning Ruth (800,000 copies in print after five pressruns), a creepy thriller she swears will keep readers saucer-eyed well past 1 a.m. Not a bad endorsement for first novelist Christina Schwarz, who shoots from No. nothing to No. 4. Another Oprah darling, the uncomplicated Cheryl Richardson, debuts at nonfiction's No. 9 with Life Makeovers. First step to easy livin': Win over Winfrey.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 THE RESCUE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $22.95 2 2 THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON Tom Clancy, Putnam, $28.95 6 3 OPEN HOUSE Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $23.95 6 4 DROWNING RUTH Christina Schwarz, Doubleday, $23.95 1 5 THE SKY IS FALLING Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $26 3 6 THE BLIND ASSASSIN Margaret Atwood, Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $26 4 7 THE SWITCH Sandra Brown, Warner, $25.95 5 8 SHATTERED Dick Francis, Putnam, $25.95 3 9 WINTER SOLSTICE Rosamunde Pilcher, St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $27.95 9 10 THE VOYAGE OF THE JERLE SHANNARA: ILSE WITCH Terry Brooks, Ballantine, $26.95 4
NONFICTION
1 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 41 2 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 64 3 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: THE MEN WHO BUILT THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD 1863-1869 Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $28 5 4 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 151 5 LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, Dutton, $23.95 11 6 I LOVE YOU, RONNIE 4 Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, Random House, $24.95 7 THE O'REILLY FACTOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS IN AMERICAN LIFE Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $23.95 3 8 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins, Putnam, $24.95 18 9 LIFE MAKEOVERS Cheryl Richardson, Broadway, $21.95 1 10 NATURAL BLONDE Liz Smith, Hyperion, $25.95 2
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 TALKING DIRTY WITH THE QUEEN OF CLEAN Linda Cobb, Pocket, $8.99 3 2 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver, HarperPerennial, $14 51 3 THE FOUR AGREEMENTS Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95 23 4 RICH DAD POOR DAD Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, Warner, $15.95 23 5 'TIS Frank McCourt, Touchstone, $14 5 6 DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE Isabel Allende, HarperPerennial, $14 3 7 PLAINSONG Kent Haruf, Vintage, $13 6 8 THE SEAT OF THE SOUL Gary Zukav, S&S/Fireside, $12 82 9 NIGHT TALES Nora Roberts, Silhouette, $14.95 5 10 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF FOR TEENS Richard Carlson, Ph.D., Hyperion, $11.95 3
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
