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After four printings, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures has a mere 135,000 copies out. That's peanuts compared with, say, Colin Powell's memoir, or the new Michael Crichton novel. But A Good Life, an autobiography from Ben Bradlee, longtime executive editor of The Washington Post-whose gutsy, swashbuckling style was epitomized by the Post's groundbreaking Watergate coverage -- has nonetheless managed to muscle its way into the No. 5 spot in its first week on the list. That's very good news for the folks at Simon & Schuster, who paid Bradlee an eye-popping $1 million for the book when they signed it up more than five years ago.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 THE LOST WORLD Michael Crichton, Knopf, $25.95 2 2 THE HORSE WHISPERER icholas Evans, Delacorte, $23. 4 3 MORNING, NOON & NIGHT Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $24 4 4 COME TO GRIEF Dick Francis, Putnam, $23.95 3 5 ''L'' IS FOR LAWLESS Sue Grafton, Holt, $24 5 6 COMING HOME Rosamunde Pilcher, St. Martin's, $25.95 6 7 A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM Ken Follett, Crown, $25 5 8 BEACH MUSIC Pat Conroy, Doubleday/Talese, $27.50 14 9 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 84 10 DEAD MAN'S WALK Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster, $26 6
NONFICTION
1 MY AMERICAN JOURNEY Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico, Random House, $25.95 3 2 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 131 3 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 33 4 MY POINT...AND I DO HAVE ONE Ellen DeGeneres, Bantam, $19.95 6 5 A GOOD LIFE Benjamin C. Bradlee, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 1 6 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Daniel Goleman, Bantam, $23.95 2 7 A GOOD WALK SPOILED John Feinstein, Little, Brown, $23.95 17 8 SISTERS Carol Saline and Sharon Wohlmuth, Running Press, $27.50 35 9 I'M ONLY ONE MAN Regis Philbin, Hyperion, $22.95 5 10 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $23 76
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 TOM CLANCY'S OP-CENTER II: MIRROR IMAGE Tom Clancy and Steve Piecznik, Berkley, $6.99 1 2 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Sidney Sheldon, Warner, $6.99 8 3 SPENCERVILLE Nelson DeMille, Warner, $6.99 3 4 THE ALIENIST Caleb Carr, Bantam, $6.99 17 5 WINGS Danielle Steel, Dell, $6.99 4 6 WILD HORSES Dick Francis, Jove, $6.99 2 7 STAR WARS: SHOWDOWN AT CENTERPOINT Roger MacBride Allen, Bantam, $5.99 4 8 COUPLEHOOD Paul Reiser, Bantam, $5.99 3 9 THE BODY FARM Patricia Cornwell, Berkley, $6.99 11 10 ONE TRUE THING Anna Quindlen, Dell, $5.99 7
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
