Never underestimate the power of a cult following. The eighth book (four pressruns, 455,000 copies in print) in the ''Wheel of Time'' fantasy series bumped mainstream horror queen Anne Rice down a notch -- and rewarded loyalists with the latest exploits of Faile, Tar Valon, and Nynaeve. Hey, we don't name them...

FICTION

WEEKS ON LIST

1 THE PATH OF DAGGERS Robert Jordan, Tor, $27.95 1 2 THE VAMPIRE ARMAND Anne Rice, Knopf, $26.95 2 3 BAG OF BONES Stephen King, Scribner, $28 5 4 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins, $27.50 3 5 RAINBOW SIX Tom Clancy, PUTNAM, $27.95 12 6 ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $17 2 7 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Knopf, $25 48 8 THE LOOP Nicholas Evans, Delacorte, $25.95 7 9 WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL! Fannie Flagg, Random House, $25.95 5 10 THE HAMMER OF EDEN Ken Follett Crown, $25.95 1

NONFICTION

1 SOMETHING MORE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 2 2 IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES Cherie Carter-Scott, Broadway, $15 6 3 THE BREAST CANCER PREVENTION DIET Dr. Bob Arnot, Little, Brown, $24 1 4 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 52 5 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM Suze Orman, Crown, $23 32 6 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Laura Schlessinger and Stewart Vogel, HarperCollins, $24 7 7 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M.D., and Luis A. Balart, M.D., Ballantine, $22 26 8 THE DEATH OF OUTRAGE William J. Bennett, The Free Press, $20 8 9 PURE DRIVEL Steve Martin, Hyperion, $19.95 4 10 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 122

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1 DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION Robert C. Atkins, M.D., Avon, $6.50 92 2 CAT & MOUSE James Patterson, Warner, $7.99 3 3 TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS: RUTHLESS.COM Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, Berkley, $7.99 2 4 PROTEIN POWER Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D., Bantam, $6.50 17 5 THE MACGREGOR GROOMS Nora Roberts, Silhouette, $6.99 2 SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY