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Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's third novel didn't need Oprah. Its successful Knopf hardcover run in 1977 prompted Signet to roll out a million mass-market volumes. Plume's 1987 trade paperback edition sold 360,000 more. Now, almost 20 years after Song of Solomon's debut, a certain talk-show host has tapped the tome for on-air discussion. Knopf and Plume have returned to the presses (the latter seven times), producing a combined total of 760,000 fresh copies.
FICTION WEEK ON LIST 1 THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN Jacquelyn Mitchard, Viking, $23.95 8 2 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.95 2 3 MY GAL SUNDAY Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $23 2 4 DESPERATION Stephen King, Viking, $27.95 5 5 THE TAILOR OF PANAMA John le Carre, Knopf, $25 2 6 THE REGULATORS Richard Bachman, Dutton, $24.95 4 7 EXECUTIVE ORDERS Tom Clancy, Putnam, $27.95 11 8 TO THE HILT Dick Francis, Putnam, $24.95 5 9 THE THIRD TWIN Ken Follett, Crown, $25.95 1 10 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 3
NONFICTION
1 MAKE THE CONNECTION Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey, Hyperion, $18.95 7 2 AMERICAN TRAGEDY Lawrence Schiller and James Willworth, Random House, $27.50 2 3 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 186 4 THE ZONE Barry Sears, Ph.D., with Bill Lawren, ReganBooks, $22 36 5 THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE Scott Adams, HarperBusiness, $20 28 6 DOGBERT'S TOP SECRET MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK Scott Adams, HarperBusiness, $16 2 7 CINDY CRAWFORD'S BASIC FACE: A MAKEUP WORKBOOK Cindy Crawford, Broadway, $25 1 8 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $17.95 32 9 DON'T BLOCK THE BLESSINGS Patti LaBelle, with Laura B. Randolph, Riverhead,$24.95 2 10 SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH Robert H. Bork, ReganBooks, $25 6
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 SONG OF SOLOMON Toni Morrison, Plume, $11.95 2 2 IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD: A CALVIN AND HOBBES COLLECTION Bill Watterson, Andrews & McMeel, $14.95 7 3 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS David Guterson, Vintage, $12 56 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 3 5 FUGITIVE FROM THE CUBICLE POLICE: A DILBERT BOOK Scott Adams, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 6 6 DR. ATKINS' NEW DIET REVOLUTION Dr. Robert C. Atkins, M. Evans, $12.95 43 7 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Health Communications, $12.95 118 8 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Covey, S&S/Fireside 300 9 REVIVING OPHELIA Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Ballantine, $12.50 81 10 A CIVIL ACTION Jonathan Harr, Vintage, $13 9
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
