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Critical acclaim it had, in spades. But though Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's memoir of his poverty-stricken childhood in Limerick, Ireland, hovered about the lower edges of the top 10 for months, it took a couple of CBS morning-show appearances in late November to raise it to its current berth, where it sits above many more typically ''commercial'' contenders. The author, a former high school teacher, has somehow transformed his more horrid than humble beginnings into a forgiving, beautifully spun yarn -- and a publishing success story. ''You've never met a nicer, more deserving man,'' gushes a Scribner spokeswoman. After 12 pressruns, the number of books in print has surpassed the 300,000 mark.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 EXECUTIVE ORDERS Tom Clancy, Putnam, $27.95 16 2 THE FALLEN MAN Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, $24 2 3 SILENT HONOR Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $24.95 4 4 THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN Jacquelyn Mitchard, Viking, $23.95 13 5 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.95 7 6 M IS FOR MALICE Sue Grafton, Holt, $25 5 7 THE TAILOR OF PANAMA John le Carre, Knopf, $25 7 8 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 8 9 THE THIRD TWIN Ken Follett, Crown, $25.95 6 10 MY GAL SUNDAY Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $23 7
NONFICTION 1 MY SERGEI: A LOVE STORY Ekaterina Gordeeva, with E.M. Swift, Warner, $18.95 6 2 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $23 12 3 DOGBERT'S TOP SECRET MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK Scott Adams, HarperBusiness, $16 7 4 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 191 5 MAKE THE CONNECTION Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey, Hyperion, $18.95 12 6 THE SOUL'S CODE: IN SEARCH OF CHARACTER AND CALLING James Hillman, Random House, $23 5 7 THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE Scott Adams, HarperBusiness, $20 33 8 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $17.95 37 9 EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO MY OPINION David Brinkley, Knopf, $20 3 10 FOREVER, ERMA Erma Bombeck, Andrews & McMeel, $22.95 3
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 THE RULES: TIME-TESTED SECRETS TO CAPTURING THE HEART OF MR. RIGHT Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, Warner, $5.99 9 2 THE CRY OF THE HALIDON Robert Ludlum, Bantam, $7.50 4 3 SHOCKWAVE Clive Cussler, Pocket, $7.99 3 4 HIDE AND SEEK James Patterson, Warner, $6.99 4 5 THE HORSE WHISPERER Nicholas Evans, Dell, $7.50 9 6 THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES Amy Tan, Ivy, $6.99 4 7 THE LOST WORLD Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $7.99 13 8 SILENT NIGHT Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket, $5.99 8 9 ABSOLUTE POWER David Baldacci, Warner, $7.50 8 10 WINDY CITY BLUES Sara Paretsky, Dell, $6.99
Source: Publisher's Weekly
