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Despite being a big, heavy tome with a $60 price tag, Baseball, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, continues to inch up the best-seller list. The print version of the PBS miniseries directed by Burns, Baseball plows through the history of the game with steady diligence and beautiful photographs. Its essays, by The New Yorker's Roger Angell, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and others, tell readers this is more than just another set of fans' notes. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 Taltos Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 1 2 Debt of Honor Tom Clancy, Putnam, $25.95 6 3 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 32 4 The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell, Scribner, $23 4 5 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Sidney Sheldon, William Morrow, $23 3 6 A Son of the Circus John Irving, Random House, $25 7 7 Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern tales For Our Life and Times James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 13 8 Wild Horses Dick Francis, Putnam, $22.95 1 9 One True Thing Anna Quindlen, Random House, $22 5 10 The Gift Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $15 11
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1 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 79 2 Couplehood Paul Reiser, Bantam, $19.95 5 3 BARBARA BUSH: A MEMOIR Barbara Bush, Scribner, $25 4 4 All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President Mary Matalin and James Carville, Random House, $24 2 5 In the Kitchen With Rosie Rosie Daley, Knopf, $14.95 24 6 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt, Random House, $23 30 7 The Kennedy Women Laurence Leamer, Villard, $27.50 8 | 8 The BOOK OF VIRTUES: A TREASURY OF GREAT MORAL STORIES William J. Bennett, Simon & Schuster, $30 40 9 Baseball: An Illustrated History Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Knopf, $60 2 10 James Herriot's Cat Stories James Herriot, St. Martin's, $16.95 1
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx, Touchstone, $12 19 2 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat Bill Watterson, Andrews and McMeel, $12.95 1 3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, $12 193 4 Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump Winston Groom, Pocket Books, $5 6 5 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore, HarperPerennial, $12 39 6 A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong, Ballantine, $14 6 7 Chicken Soup for the Soul Jack Caufield and Mark Hansen, editors, Health Communications, $12 11 8 Lasher Anne Rice, Ballantine, $14 6 9 What to Expect When You're Expecting Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff, and Sandee E. Hathaway, Workman, $10.95 77 10 The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck, M.D., Touchstone, $12 349
