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Wacky FBI love triangles aside, it's been a good year for Patricia Cornwell. The crime novelist shelved her beloved heroine -- mercurial medical examiner Kay Scarpetta -- with January's Hornet's Nest and was rewarded, despite some critical disfavor, with a No. 1 best-seller. And the book doesn't appear to have, uh, cut into the Scarpetta franchise in the slightest. The ninth in that series is now just doing what comes Naturally, making short work of Putnam's million-copy first printing.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 UNNATURAL EXPOSURE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 1 2 SPECIAL DELIVERY Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $16.95 4 3 PLUM ISLAND Nelson DeMille, Warner, $25 9 4 THE PARTNER John Grisham, Doubleday, $26.95 21 5 FAT TUESDAY Sandra Brown, Warner, $24 6 6 DECEPTION ON HIS MIND Elizabeth George, Bantam, $24.95 3 7 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 40 8 UP ISLAND Anne Rivers Siddons, HarperCollins, $25 8 9 LONDON Edward Rutherfurd, Crown, $25.95 9 10 CHASING CEZANNE Peter Mayle, Knopf, $23 8
NONFICTION
1 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 44 2 THE BIBLE CODE Michael Drosnin, Simon & Schuster, $25 6 3 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $17.95 69 4 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 13 5 BRAIN DROPPINGS George Carlin, Hyperion, $19.95 6 6 MIRACLE CURES Jean Carper, HarperCollins, $25 1 7 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I Neale Donald Walsch, Putnam, $19.95 28 8 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 128 9 THE GIFT OF FEAR Gavin de Becker, Little, Brown, $22.95 5 10 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 5
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... AND IT'S ALL SMALL STUFF Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $8.95 16 2 SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME Mary McGarry Morris, Penguin, $13.95 5 3 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and K. Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 8 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 40 5 SHE'S COME UNDONE Wally Lamb, Washington Square Press,$14 26 6 THE HEART OF A WOMAN Maya Angelou, Bantam, $12 11 7 THE COLOR OF WATER James McBride, Riverhead, $12 20 8 STONES FROM THE RIVER Ursula Hegi, Scribner, $13 21 9 INTO THE WILD Jon Krakauer, Doubleday/Anchor, $12.95 17 10 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone, $16 9
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
