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Next to figures for some of the top trade paperbacks, the sales of The Bridges of Madison County look downright puny. After all, the fiction blockbuster has been a best-seller for only a paltry 99 weeks. Compare that with such paperback mainstays as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The T-Factor Fat Gram Counter, The Road Less Traveled, and Life's Little Instruction Book. Cumulatively, they have spent some 820 weeks on the list (which adds up to more than 151 2 years). Week On Fiction List
1 THE CHAMBER John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95 7 2 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 21 3 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, $23 5 4 The Alienist Caleb Carr, Random House, $22 15 5 The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.95 99 6 The Waterworks E.L. Doctorow, Random House, $23 5 7 Everything To Gain Barbara Taylor Bradford, HarperCollins, $24 2 8 Inca Gold Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, $24 11 9 Remember Me Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $23.50 13 10 Playing For The Ashes Elizabeth George, Bantam, $21.95 1
Nonfiction
1 In The Kitchen With Rosie Rosie Daley, Knopf, $14.95 13 2 The Agenda Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $24 5 3 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 68 4 Embraced by the Light Betty J. Eadie, Gold Leaf Press, $16.95 60 5 The Book of Virtues: a treasury of great moral stories William J. Bennett, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 29 6 Magic Eye II Thomas Baccei, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 12 7 Magic Eye Thomas Baccei, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 25 8 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt, Random House, $23 19 - 9 D-day, June 6, 1944 Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $30 7 10 Moon Shot Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict, Turner, $21.95 2
Trade Paperbacks
1 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx, Touchstone, $12 8 2 The 7 habits of highly effective people Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, $12 182 3 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore, HarperPerennial, $12 28 4 All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy, Vintage, $11 27 5 Pigs In Heaven Barbara Kingsolver, HarperPerennial, $12 15 6 The T-factor fat gram counter Jamie Pope-Cordle and Martin Katahn, Norton, $2.99 173 7 The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck, M.D., Touchstone, $12 338 8 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen, Vintage, $10 7 9 What To Expect When You're Expecting Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoffi, and Sandy Hathaway, Workman, $10.95 66 10 Life's Little Instruction Book H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rutledge Hill, $5.95 127
