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Break out the holy water -- Anne Rice is back. And she's knocked Stephen King's Bag of Bones out of the top spot with her latest bloodsucking tale. But not everyone thinks ''The Vampire Chronicles'' have gotten better with age: One Amazon.com reader snickers that Rice is the ''Aaron Spelling of the vampire genre.'' The stake isn't through the heart yet, though. Two pressruns have immortalized 600,000 copies in print.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 THE VAMPIRE ARMAND Anne Rice, Knopf, $26.95 1 2 BAG OF BONES Stephen King, Scribner, $28 4 3 RAINBOW SIX Tom Clancy, Putnam, $27.95 11 4 THE LOOP Nicholas Evans, Delacorte, $25.95 6 5 ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $17 1 6 WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL! Fannie Flagg, Random House, $25.95 4 7 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins, $27.50 2 8 THE HUNDRED DAYS Patrick O'Brian, Norton, $24 3 9 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Knopf, $25 47 10 I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE Wally Lamb, ReganBooks, $27.50 20 NONFICTION
1 SOMETHING MORE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 1 2 IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES Cherie Carter-Scott, Broadway, $15 5 3 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 51 4 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM Suze Orman, Crown, $23 31 5 THE DEATH OF OUTRAGE William J. Bennett, The Free Press, $20 7 6 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M.D., and Luis A. Balart, M.D., Ballantine, $22 25 7 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Laura Schlessinger and Stewart Vogel, HarperCollins, $24 6 8 IN THE MEANTIME Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $23 28 9 HIS BRIGHT LIGHT Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $25 6 10 JUST JACKIE: HER PRIVATE YEARS Edward Klein, Ballantine, $25.95 2 TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 BELOVED Toni Morrison, Plume, $12.95 3 2 DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD Rebecca Wells, HarperPerennial, $13.50 37 3 WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY Pearl Cleage, Avon, $12 4 4 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Dr. Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $10.95 80 5 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, Pocket, $14 6
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
