The folks at Villard probably aren't mourning this season's baseball strike too much, since it has no doubt contributed to a home run for them. If you can't watch the game, then you can at least read about the way it used to be- and lots of people are doing just that. October 1964, David Halberstam's latest tome about America's national pastime, has shot up three spots this week to No. 5. The book is still in its first printing of 215,000 copies but will likely go into extra innings.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 Debt of Honor Tom Clancy, Putnam, $25.95 2 2 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, $17.95 28 Warner, 3 The Gift Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $15 7 4 The Chamber John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95 14 5 A Son of the Circus John Irving, Random House, $25 3 6 The Bridges of Madison County $16.95 106 Robert James Waller, Warner, 7 Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: $8.95 9 Modern Tales For Our Life and Times James Finn Garner, Macmillan, 8 The Alienist Caleb Carr, Random House, $22 22 9 Until You Judith McNaught, Pocket Books, $22 4 10 The Hidden City David Eddings, Del Rey, $23 3
NONFICTION 1 In the Kitchen With Rosie Rosie Daley, $14,95 20 Knopf, 2 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus $23 75 John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, 3 Embraced by the Light $16.95 67 Betty J. Eadie, Gold Leaf Press, 4 The Kennedy Women Laurence Leamer, Villard, $27.50 4 5 October 1964 David Halberstam, Villard, $24 4 6 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil $23 26 John Berendt, Random House, 7 The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture $20 4 Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Simon & Schuster, 8 The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great $30 36 Moral Stories William J. Bennett, Simon & Schuster, 9 Magic Eye II Thomas Baccei, Andrews & McMeel,$12.95 19 10 Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss $22.95 6 Hope Edelman, Addison-Wesley,
TRADE PAPERBACKS 1 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx, Touchstone, $12 15 2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People $12 189 Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, 3 Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump $5 2 Winston Groom, Pocket Books, 4 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore, $12 35 HarperPerennial, 5 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy, $11 34 Vintage, 6 The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck, M.D., $12 345 Touchstone, 7 Lasher Anne Rice, Ballantine, $14 2 8 Chicken Soup For the Soul Jack Caufield $12 7 and Mark Hansen, editors, Health Communications 9 What to Expect When You're Expecting $10.95 73 Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff, and Sandee E. Hathaway, Workman, 10 Eat More, Weigh Less Dean Ornish,M.D., $14 9 HarperPerennial,
