They like her, they really like her. Watercooler chatter about Anna Quindlen wasn't always so favorable back when she was a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, musing about matters ''Public and Private'' and ''Life in the 30s'' (as in, her life in her 30s). But far from resenting Ms. Q. for choosing fiction as a second career, fellow writers Alice Hoffman, Susan Isaacs, and Wendy Wasserstein have all turned out to heap praise upon her third novel. Black and Blue isn't quite knocking the competition senseless, but it went back to press for 35,000 new copies after a mere 10 days on sale, bringing the in-print total thus far to 150,000.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 PARADISE Toni Morrison, Knopf, $25 4 2 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 32 3 FEAR NOTHING Dean Koontz, Bantam, $26.95 3 4 THE WINNER David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $25 8 5 BLACK AND BLUE Anna Quindlen, Random House, $23 1 6 A CERTAIN JUSTICE P.D. James, Knopf, $25 9 7 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Knopf, $25 12 8 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House,$23 26 9 CUBA LIBRE Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, $23.95 3 10 CAT & MOUSE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $24.95 12
NONFICTION
1 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 96 2 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, Longstreet, $22 30 3 TALKING TO HEAVEN James Van Praagh, Dutton, $22.95 4 4 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 71 5 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $25 156 6 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 14 7 DON'T WORRY, MAKE MONEY Richard Carlson, Hyperion,$15.95 10 8 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I 51 Neale Donald Walsch, Putnam, $19.95 9 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 40 10 CITIZEN SOLDIERS Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster,$27.50 12
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 THE PARTNER John Grisham, Dell/Island, $7.99 4 2 HORNET'S NEST Patricia Cornwell, Berkley, $7.50 4 3 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $5.99 4 4 DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Avon, $6.50 54 5 AN ANGEL FOR EMILY Jude Deveraux, Pocket, $7.50 3 6 CRITICAL JUDGMENT Michael Palmer, Bantam, $6.99 3 7 M IS FOR MALICE Sue Grafton, Fawcett Crest, $7.99 8 8 TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS -- POLITIKA Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, Berkley, $7.50 11 9 SEA SWEPT Nora Roberts, Jove, $7.50 7 10 SPHERE Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $7.99 28
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
