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It was a best-seller even before Simon & Schuster published it. That's right, The Christmas Box has sold almost 725,000 copies since last year, when it was released independently in paperback by its first-time author, Richard Paul Evans. In S & S's new hardcover incarnation, the yuletide fable is at No. 8 on the list with 945,000 copies in print after four pressruns. Still, will Box merit the bountiful $4.2 million the publisher paid Evans for it and a prequel? The answer, for now, is under wraps.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 THE LOST WORLD Michael Crichton, Knopf, $25.95 7 2 THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES Amy Tan, Putnam, $23.95 3 3 THE HORSE WHISPERER Nicholas Evans, Delacorte, $23.95 9 4 SILENT NIGHT Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $16 5 5 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 89 6 MORNING, NOON & NIGHT Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $24 9 7 COMING HOME Rosamunde Pilcher, St. Martin's, $25.95 11 8 THE CHRISTMAS BOX Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $12.95 2 9 FINDING MOON Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, $24 4 10 LOVE IN ANOTHER TOWN Barbara Taylor Bradford, HarperCollins, $24 3
NONFICTION
1 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 136 2 MY AMERICAN JOURNEY Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico, Random House, $25.95 8 3 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Daniel Goleman, Bantam, $23.95 7 4 CHARLES KURALT'S AMERICA Charles Kuralt, Putnam, $24.95 3 5 THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS Deepak Chopra, New World Library, $14 38 6 A GOOD WALK SPOILED John Feinstein, Little, Brown, $23.95 22 7 A GOOD LIFE Benjamin C. Bradlee, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 6 8 SISTERS Carol Saline and Sharon Wohlmuth, Running Press, $27.50 40 9 DAVID BRINKLEY David Brinkley, Knopf, $25 1 10 LINCOLN David Herbert Donald, Simon & Schuster, $35 2
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Health Communications, $12.95 68 2 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS David Guterson, Vintage, $12 6 3 THE CALVIN & HOBBES TENTH ANNIVERSARY BOOK Bill Watterson, Andrews & McMeel, $14.95 7 4 THE STONE DIARIES Carol Shields, Penguin, $10 29 5 THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, $12 250 6 REVIVING OPHELIA Mary Pipher, Ballantine, $12.50 32 7 TEN STUPID THINGS WOMEN DO TO MESS UP THEIR LIVES Laura Schlessinger, HarperPerennial, $10 40 8 A 2ND HELPING OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Health Communications, $12.95 30 9 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING A. Eisenberg, H. Murkoff, and S. Hathaway, Workman, $10.95. 126 10 THE FAR SIDE GALLERY 5 Gary Larson, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 3
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
