The best-seller list has been pretty static for the last couple of months-and one thing many of these not-so-random titles have in common is their publisher, Random House. Rarely does a single publisher dominate the charts, but right now the venerable Newhouse-owned company has no fewer than 8 out of 20 books on the hardcover lists. Three of them are from the Random House imprint, one is from Ballantine, and four are from Knopf, including A Dog's Life, the latest Peter Mayle novel. Two more titles lurk just out of sight on the nonfiction list at No. 11 and No. 13. Weeks on FICTION List
1 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 59 2 POLITICALLY CORRECT BEDTIME STORIES: MODERN TALES FOR OUR LIFE AND TIMES James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 40 3 OUR GAME John le Carre, Knopf, $24 6 4 MOO Jane Smiley, Knopf, $24 3 5 BORDER MUSIC Robert James Waller, Warner, $17.95 9 6 A DOG'S LIFE Peter Mayle, Knopf, $20 4 7 THE GLASS LAKE Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $23.95 8 8 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.95 137 9 ORIGINAL SIN P.D. James, Knopf, $24 12 10 THE FOURTH PROCEDURE Stanley Pottinger, Ballantine, $23.95 2
NONFICTION
1 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 106 2 THE HOT ZONE Richard Preston, Random House, $23 27 3 MARS AND VENUS IN THE BEDROOM John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $22 2 4 BREAKING THE SURFACE Greg Louganis, Random House, $23 6 5 THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE Philip K. Howard, Random House, $18 9 6 SISTERS Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, Running Press, $27.50 13 7 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $12.95 8 8 FIRST THINGS FIRST Stephen R. Covey, Simon & Schuster, $23 11 9 THE BEARDSTOWN LADIES' COMMON-SENSE INVESTMENT GUIDE Leslie Whitaker, Hyperion, $19.95 12 10 THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL Anne Frank, Edited by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler, Doubleday, $25 4
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 THE CHAMBER John Grisham, Dell, $7.50 4 2 CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Maeve Binchy, Dell, $6.50 4 3 TOM CLANCY'S OP-CENTER Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, Berkley, $6.99 13 4 UNTIL YOU Judith McNaught, Pocket Books, $6.50 5 5 ''K'' IS FOR KILLER Sue Grafton, Fawcett, $6.99 1 6 DAYBREAK Belva Plain, Dell, $6.99 5 7 MURDER ON THE POTOMAC Margaret Truman, Fawcett, $6.99 4 8 ANGEL Barbara Taylor Bradford, Ballantine, $6.99 5 9 THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW Allan Folsom, Warner, $6.99 13 10 DECIDER Dick Francis, Jove, $5.99 6
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