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IN A GARDEN of predictable best-sellers (dewy romance, spine-chilling medical thriller, serial-killer mystery, New Age science fiction) blooms one classic novel: John Updike's In the Beauty of the Lilies. Truly good fiction all too rarely makes an appearance on the best-seller list these days, so it's especially nice to see Updike's latest there. (This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's 17th novel and 46th book.) Lilies -- a saga spanning some 80 years and four generations of a remarkable American family -- is currently ensconced at No. 8, with some 102,500 copies in print; Knopf has gone back to press four times.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 PRIMARY COLORS Anonymous, Random House, $24 5 2 ABSOLUTE POWER David Baldacci, Warner, $22.95 5 3 THE HORSE WHISPERER Nicholas Evans, Delacorte, $23.95 24 4 THAT CAMDEN SUMMER LaVyrle Spencer, Putnam, $23.95 5 5 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 104 6 INTENSITY Dean Koontz, Knopf, $25 8 7 THE CAT WHO SAID CHEESE Lilian Jackson Braun, Putnam, $21.95 3 8 IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES John Updike, Knopf, $25.95 5 9 CONTAGION Robin Cook, Putnam, $23.95 7 10 THE WEB Jonathan Kellerman, Bantam, $23.95 9 NONFICTION 1 RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS Al Franken, Delacorte, $21.95 6 2 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 151 3 IT TAKES A VILLAGE: AND OTHER LESSONS CHILDREN TEACH US Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster, $20 7 4 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Daniel Goleman, Bantam, $23.95 22 5 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 53 6 HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! THE ABDICATION OF CHARACTER, COURAGE AND CONSCIENCE Dr. Laura Schlessinger, HarperCollins, $22 5 7 THE WAY OF THE WIZARD Deepak Chopra, Harmony, $15.95 9 8 UNDAUNTED COURAGE Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 1 9 TIME PRESENT, TIME PAST: A MEMOIR Bill Bradley, Knopf, $25 5 10 THE ROAD AHEAD Bill Gates, Viking, $29.95 13 MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS 1 THE RAINMAKER John Grisham, Dell, $7.99 8 2 THE CAT WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE Lilian Jackson Braun, Jove, $5.99 3 3 TARNISHED ANGEL V.C. Andrews, Pocket Books, $6.99 6 4 THE GIFT Danielle Steel, Dell, $5.99 4 5 THE FOURTH PROCEDURE Stanley Pottinger, Ballantine, $6.99 6 6 SILENT TREATMENT Michael Palmer, Bantam, $6.50 3 7 THE GLASS LAKE Maeve Binchy, Dell, $7.50 1 8 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Jane Austen, Signet, $5.99 8 9 THE COVE Catherine Coulter, Jove, $6.99 1 10 HOME SONG LaVyrle Spencer, Jove, $6.99 6
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
