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In 1953, Heinrich Harrer published a little book about trudging through the Himalayas and hanging out with the Dalai Lama. It did nicely over the years, selling tens of thousands of copies. Then Brad Pitt decided to star in the movie. Now if you were a publisher, would you be able to resist shamelessly splashing his beaming visage across a cover? Tarcher/Putnam did, choosing instead a tasteful pic of a generic mountaineer. Even so, this edition already has 125,000 copies in print after nine treks to press.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 18 2 VIOLIN Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95 1 3 FLOOD TIDE Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, $26 5 4 THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS Caleb Carr, Random House, $25.95 6 5 UNDERWORLD Don DeLillo, Scribner, $27.50 6 6 10 LB. PENALTY Dick Francis, Putnam, $24.95 4 7 THE BEST LAID PLANS Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $25 7 8 TIMEQUAKE Kurt Vonnegut, Putnam, $23.95 4 9 TEMPLE OF THE WINDS Terry Goodkind, Tor, $26.95 2 10 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House, $23 12
NONFICTION
1 DIANA: HER TRUE STORY. A COMMEMORATIVE EDITION Andrew Morton, Pocket, $22.95 2 2 THE ROYALS Kitty Kelley, Warner, $27 5 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 57 4 THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES Monty Roberts, Random House, $23 11 5 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 26 6 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK I Neale Donald Walsch, Putnam, $19.95 41 7 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 222 8 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 18 9 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 82 10 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 141
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $8.95 29 2 A LESSON BEFORE DYING Ernest Gaines, Vintage, $12 4 3 THE COLOR OF WATER James McBride, Riverhead, $12 33 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and K. Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 21 5 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Frances Mayes, Broadway, $13 5 6 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone, $16 20 7 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 53 8 SHE'S COME UNDONE Wally Lamb, Washington Square Press, $14 39 9 SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET Heinrich Harrer, Tarcher/Putnam, $13.95 2 10 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Covey, S&S/Fireside, $12 327
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
