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The reigning master of macabre hits the charts this week, but with a mellow memoir about his writing life rather than a white-knuckle read. Stephen King's On Writing (600,000 copies in print after two pressruns) debuts at No. 5 on the nonfiction list. Speaking of chart-toppers, those beloved mop tops strike a chord at No. 2 with their coffee-table career capper, The Beatles Anthology. Elsewhere, literary pop stars Clancy and Sparks bow down to Drowning Ruth's Christina Schwarz, the queen of the fiction hill.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 DROWNING RUTH Christina Schwarz, Doubleday, $23.95 2 2 THE RESCUE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $22.95 3 3 THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON Tom Clancy, Putnam, $28.95 7 4 THE SKY IS FALLING Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $26 4 5 OPEN HOUSE Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $23.95 7 6 THE DEVIL'S CODE John Sandford, Putnam, $25.95 1 7 SHATTERED Dick Francis, Putnam, $25.95 4 8 DUNE: HOUSE HARKONNEN Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam, $27.50 1 9 PERISH TWICE Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $23.95 1 10 THE BLIND ASSASSIN Margaret Atwood, Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $26 5
NONFICTION
1 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 42 2 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY The Beatles, Chronicle, $60 1 3 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 65 4 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: THE MEN WHO BUILT THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD 1863-1869 Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $28 6 5 ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT Stephen King, Scribner, $25 1 6 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 152 7 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins, Putnam, $24.95 19 8 THE O'REILLY FACTOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS IN AMERICAN LIFE Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $23.95 4 9 FACE FORWARD Kevyn Aucoin, Little, Brown, $32.95 1 10 I LOVE YOU, RONNIE Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, Random House, $24.95 5
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 POP GOES THE WEASEL James Patterson, Warner, $7.99 1 2 SAVING FAITH David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $7.99 6 3 MONSTER Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine, $7.99 5 4 STAR WARS: THE NEW JEDI ORDER (AGENTS OF CHAOS 1, HERO'S TRIAL) James Luceno, Del Rey, $6.99 1 5 A WALK TO REMEMBER Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $6.99 6 6 LEFT BEHIND Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, Tyndale, $7.99 5 7 DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Avon, $6.50 192 8 HIDING IN THE SHADOWS Kay Hooper, Bantam, $6.50 1 9 BLACK NOTICE Patricia Cornwell, Berkley, $7.99 10 10 CALDER PRIDE Janet Dailey, HarperPaperbacks, $7.50 1
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
