There is, most assuredly, life after Nobel for 66-year-old Toni Morrison. Four years after she picked up the coveted prize, her seventh novel -- about the emigration of ex-slaves to Oklahoma after the Civil War -- debuts at No. 5 and has already returned to press, with an idyllic 725,000 copies in print. The Jonathan Demme-directed, Oprah Winfrey-produced film version of Beloved arrives this fall. And Oprah's on-air plugs of Song of Solomon have boosted sales of all the author's backlisted paperbacks. Feels pretty good, doesn't it?
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 29 2 THE WINNER David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $25 5 3 CAT & MOUSE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $24.95 9 4 A CERTAIN JUSTICE P.D. James, Knopf, $25 6 5 PARADISE Toni Morrison, Knopf, $25 1 6 THE GHOST Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $25.95 9 7 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House,$23 23 8 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Knopf, $25 9 9 ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN Dominick Dunne, Crown, $25 8 10 THE LETTER Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster,$15.95 10
NONFICTION
1 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL 153 John Berendt, Random House, $25 2 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 93 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 68 4 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 37 5 8 WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH Andrew Weil, Knopf, $23 25 6 JOY OF COOKING Irma Rombauer, Marion 9 Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker, Scribner, $30 7 DON'T WORRY, MAKE MONEY Richard Carlson, Hyperion,$15.95 7 8 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 11 9 CITIZEN SOLDIERS Stephen E. Ambrose 9 Simon & Schuster,$27.50 10 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I 48 Neale Donald Walsch, Putnam, $19.95
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF...AND IT'S ALL SMALL STUFF 40 Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $9.95 2 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. 32 Hansen, and Kirk Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 3 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Frances Mayes, Broadway, $13 16 4 THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS 1998 6 Edited by Robert Famighetti, World Almanac Books, $9.95 5 THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS 9 Stephen King, Plume, $17.95 6 THE SIMPSONS: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO OUR FAVORITE FAMILY 6 Matt Groening, edited by Ray Richmond, HarperPerennial, $15.95 7 JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC Ed W. Marsh, HarperPerennial,$20 1 8 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone,$16 31 9 PETALS ON THE RIVER Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Avon,$12.50 6 10 THE COLOR OF WATER James McBride, Riverhead, $12 44
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
