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Ashes to Ashes, forsooth! After manhandling the nonfiction list for most of the year, Frank McCourt's memoir of Irish poverty is at long last getting dusted. And with consummate political irony, this book's dethroning comes at the hands of Kitty Kelley's British-monarchy expose -- which, though doubtless bound for sales glory in any case, has gotten its expected bitter boost from Princess Diana's untimely death. There are currently 1,200,000 copies of The Royals in print.
TITLE - AUTHOR - PUBLISHER - COST - WEEKS ON LIST
1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 14
2 FLOOD TIDE Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, $26 13 THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS Caleb Carr, Random House, $25.95 2
4 THE BEST LAID PLANS Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $25 3
5 UNDERWORLD Don DeLillo, Scribner, $27.50 2
6 PLUM ISLAND Nelson DeMille, Warner, $25 18
7 UNNATURAL EXPOSURE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 10
8 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 49
9 THE PARTNER John Grisham, Doubleday, $26.95 30
10 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House, $23 8
NONFICTION
1 THE ROYALS Kitty Kelley, Warner, $27 1
2 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 53
3 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 218
4 THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES Monty Roberts, Random House, $23 7
5 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 14
6 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 22
7 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 137
8 TEN STUPID THINGS MEN DO TO MESS UP THEIR LIVES Laura Schlessinger, Ph.D., HarperCollins/Cliff Street, $24 2
9 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I Neale Donald Walsch, Putnam, $19.95 37
10 BABYHOOD Paul Reiser, Rob Weisbach, $22 5
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $8.95 25
2 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and K. Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 17
3 THE COLOR OF WATER James McBride, Riverhead, $12 29
4 SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME Mary McGarry Morris, Penguin, $13.95 14
5 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 49
6 THE HEART OF A WOMAN Maya Angelou, Bantam, $12 20
7 INTO THE WILD Jon Krakauer, Doubleday/Anchor, $12.95 26
8 SEVEN YEARS OF HIGHLY DEFECTIVE PEOPLE Scott Adams, Andrews McMeel, $12.95 1
9 AT HOME IN MITFORD Jan Karon, Penguin, $11.95 6
10 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone, $16 16
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
