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It's fitting that Anne Rice writes about the immortal so much, for, despite her dripping prose and her public complaints about the casting of a certain box office star in the film version of one of her novels, her readers' affection for her never seems to die. Now she's outdone even her over-the-top self with the fifth installment in the ''Vampire Chronicles'' series, Memnoch the Devil, debuting at No. 1. This time, old standby bloodsucker Lestat confronts God and the other guy in purgatory. There are 900,000 copies of the book after five pressruns.
WEEKS FICTION ON LIST 1 MEMNOCH THE DEVIL Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 1 2 BEACH MUSIC Pat Conroy, Doubleday/Talese, $27.50 3 3 LIGHTNING Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $24.95 1 4 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Robert James Waller, Warner, $17.95 151 5 ROSE MADDER Stephen King, Viking, $22.95 5 6 THE RAINMAKER John Grisham, Doubleday, $25.95 14 7 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 73 8 THE WITNESS Sandra Brown, Warner, $21.95 5 9 THE APOCALYPSE WATCH Robert Ludlum, Bantam, $24.95 9 10 LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $24 12
NONFICTION
1 TO RENEW AMERICA Newt Gingrich, HarperCollins, $24 3 2 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 120 3 NEW PASSAGES Gail Sheehy, Random House, $25 5 4 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 65 5 A GOOD WALK SPOILED John Feinstein, Little, Brown, $23.95 6 6 SPONTANEOUS HEALING Andrew Weil, M.D., Knopf, $23 9 7 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 22 8 HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME Gerry Spence, St. Martin's, $22.95 15 9 MARS AND VENUS IN THE BEDROOM John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $24 16 10 DAVE BARRY'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO GUYS Dave Barry, Random House, $21 9
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 THE HOT ZONE Richard Preston, Doubleday/Anchor, $6.99 2 2 THE ALIENIST Caleb Carr, Bantam, $6.99 6 3 DEBT OF HONOR Tom Clancy, Berkley, $7.50 5 4 APOLLO 13 Jim Lovell, Pocket Books, $6.50 3 5 THE CHAMBER John Grisham, Dell, $7.50 18 6 WHITE SHARK Peter Benchley, St. Martin's, $6.50 2 7 BORN IN ICE Nora Roberts, Jove, $5.99 2 8 REMEMBRANCE Jude Devereux, Pocket Books, $5.99 1 9 FIRST OFFENSE Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Signet, $6.99 6 10 THE FIST OF GOD Frederick Forsyth, Bantam, $6.99 2
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
