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For six weeks, the McCourt memoirs have been duking it out. Detractors say Malachy is piggybacking on Frank's fame; the younger brother does give props to the elder in his acknowledgments ''for opening the golden door.'' (And let's not forget his ''intrepid agent, no stranger to Midas,'' who landed him the $600,000 book deal.) Malachy's A Monk Swimming has 200,000 copies in print after five pressruns, while the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes has piled up 2.15 million copies and 62 printings.
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WEEKS ON LIST 1 POINT OF ORIGIN Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 1 2 I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE Wally Lamb, ReganBooks, $27.50 6 3 BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY Helen Fielding, Viking, $22.95 6 4 SUMMER SISTERS Judy Blume, Delacorte, $21.95 9 5 A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR John Irving, Random House, $27.95 11 6 THE KLONE AND I Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $17.95 4 7 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $20 14 8 THE LAST FULL MEASURE Jeff Shaara, Ballantine, $25.95 7 9 UNSPEAKABLE Sandra Brown, Warner, $25 5 10 LOW COUNTRY Anne Rivers Siddons, HarperCollins, $25 2
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1 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M.D., and Luis A. Balart, M.D., Ballantine, $22 11 2 A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY Jimmy Buffett, Random House, $24.95 6 3 MARS AND VENUS STARTING OVER John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $25 2 4 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 37 5 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM Suze Orman, Crown, $23 17 6 A MONK SWIMMING Malachy McCourt, Hyperion, $23.95 6 7 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 94 8 MARILU HENNER'S TOTAL HEALTH MAKEOVER Marilu Henner with Laura Morton, ReganBooks, $24 6 9 A WALK IN THE WOODS Bill Bryson, Broadway, $25 6 10 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, Longstreet, $22 51 TRADE PAPERBACKS 1 DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD Rebecca Wells, HarperPerennial, $13.50 23 2 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Dr. Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $10.95 66 3 THE BEANIE BABY HANDBOOK Les and Sue Fox, West Highland Publishing, $6.95 21 4 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, HarperPerennial, $13 10 5 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and K. Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 58 6 INTO THE WILD Jon Krakauer, Doubleday/Anchor, $12.95 45 7 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE PET LOVER'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, M. Becker, and C. Kline Health Communications, $12.95 12 8 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Frances Mayes, Broadway, $13 41 9 BREATH, EYES, MEMORY Edwidge Danticat, Vintage, $11 8 SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
