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Jeez, what does it take for someone to get an O.J. book on the charts these days? Memo to civil-trial lawyer Daniel Petrocelli, who just inked with Crown: You might want to think about throwing some Big Society Names into your book. Don't know anybody, you say? Make it up! After all, Hollywood courtier Dominick Dunne's ''fictional,'' gossipy recap of the trial recently paid a third call to the presses, for a total of 320,000 copies in print. (And the movie vultures are circling.) Meanwhile, interest in British royalty seems to have flagged somewhat -- where have you gone, Kitty Kelley? -- as readers turn their attention to Sy Hersh's Camelot expose.
FICTION
WEEKS ON LIST 1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 23 2 CAT & MOUSE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $24.95 3 3 THE GHOST Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $25.95 3 4 ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN Dominick Dunne, Crown, $25 2 5 THE LETTER Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $15.95 4 6 LUCKY YOU Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $24 4 7 VIOLIN Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95 6 8 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House,$23 17 9 WOBEGON BOY Garrison Keillor, Viking, $24.95 2 10 THE MATARESE COUNTDOWN Robert Ludlum, Bantam, $27.50 6
NONFICTION
1 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $25 146 2 JOY OF COOKING Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker, Scribner, $30 3 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 62 4 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 31 5 THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT Seymour M. Hersh, Little, Brown, $26.95 2 6 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 87 7 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 23 8 CITIZEN SOLDIERS Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 2 9 DIANA: HER TRUE STORY. A COMMEMORATIVE EDITION Andrew Morton, Simon & Schuster, $22.95 7 10 THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES Monty Roberts, Random House, $23 16
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS -- POLITIKA Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, Berkley, $7.50 2 2 TOTAL CONTROL David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $7.50 3 3 JACK & JILL James Patterson, Warner Vision, $7.50 7 4 AIRFRAME Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $7.99 7 5 STARSHIP TROOPERS Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, $5.99 4 6 THE LIST Steve Martini, Jove, $7.50 2 7 UNFINISHED SYMPHONY V.C. Andrews, Pocket, $7.50 3 8 KISS THE GIRLS James Patterson, Warner, $6.99 10 9 THE RAINMAKER John Grisham, Dell, $7.99 1 10 SOLE SURVIVOR Dean Koontz, Ballantine, $7.99 3
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
