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Has Danielle Steel caught a touch of royal fever? Her new million-copy novel's heroine is named...Sarah Ferguson (though she bears no resemblance to the Duchess of York). Well, after writing 41 best-sellers, those creative reserves are bound to be depleted. Meanwhile, recently appointed Random House chief Ann Godoff obviously deserves her promotion, as three chartees -- John Berendt's, Monty Roberts', and Arundhati Roy's -- were her acquisitions.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 24 2 CAT & MOUSE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $24.95 4 3 THE GHOST Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $25.95 4 4 THE LETTER Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $15.95 5 5 ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN Dominick Dunne, Crown, $25 3 6 VIOLIN Anne Rice, Knopf, $25.95 7 7 LUCKY YOU Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $24 5 8 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House,$23 18 9 A CERTAIN JUSTICE P.D. James, Knopf, $25 1 10 THE MATARESE COUNTDOWN Robert Ludlum, Bantam, $27.50 7
NONFICTION
1 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $25 147 2 JOY OF COOKING Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker, Scribner, $30 4 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 63 4 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 88 5 CITIZEN SOLDIERS Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 3 6 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 32 7 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 24 8 THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT Seymour M. Hersh, Little, Brown, $26.95 3 9 THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES Monty Roberts, Random House, $23 17 10 DIANA: HER TRUE STORY. A COMMEMORATIVE EDITION Andrew Morton, Simon & Schuster, $22.95 8
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF... Richard Carlson, Hyperion, $9.95 35 2 THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS Stephen King, Plume, $17.95 4 3 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, and Kirk Kirberger, Health Communications, $12.95 27 4 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, S&S/Touchstone, $16 26 5 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Frances Mayes, Broadway, $13 11 6 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE MOTHER'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 6 7 A VIRTUOUS WOMAN Kaye Gibbons, Vintage, $10 5 8 ELLEN FOSTER Kaye Gibbons, Vintage, $10 5 9 THE SIMPSONS: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO OUR FAVORITE FAMILY Matt Groening, edited by Ray Richmond, HarperPerennial, $15.95 2 10 THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS 1998 Edited by Robert Famighetti, World Almanac Books, $9.95 1
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
