And to think, for a while it looked like Faye D. Resnick's greatest achievement was being a director of the John Robert Powers Finishing and Modeling School. But no: She finally put pen to paper and joined the ranks of the literati. Her claim to fame, Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted, has landed at No. 1 on the nonfiction list after an initial printing of 750,000. Even Judge Ito's read it! Resnick better enjoy her 15 minutes in the limelight. The light of goodness, in the form of the Pope's tome, may soon prevail. Weeks on Fiction List
1 Insomnia Stephen King, Viking, $27.95 3 2 Taltos Anne Rice, Knopf, $25 5 3 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 36 4 Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan, Tor, $25.95 2 5 Debt of Honor Tom Clancy, Putnam, $25.95 10 6 Spencerville Nelson DeMille, Warner, $23.95 2 7 The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell, Scribner, $23 8 8 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $23 7 9 Wild Horses Dick Francis, Putnam, $22.95 5 10 Politically correct bedtime Stories: Modern tales For Our Life and Times James Finn Garner, Macmillan, $8.95 17
Nonfiction
1 Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted Faye D. Resnick with Mike Walker, Dove, $14.95 1 2 Crossing the Threshold of Hope Pope John Paul II, Knopf, $20 1 3 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 83 4 The Hot Zone Richard Preston, Random House, $23 4 5 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in A AmericanLife Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Free Press, $30 1 6 Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man Tim Allen, Hyperion, $19.95 3 7 James Herriot's Cat Stories James Herriot, St. Martin's, $16.95 5 8 BARBARA BUSH: A MEMOIR Barbara Bush, Scribner, $25 8 9 Couplehood Paul Reiser, Bantam, $19.95 9 10 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $30 5
Trade Paperbacks
1 Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat Bill Watterson, Andrews and McMeel, $12.95 5 2 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx, Touchstone, $12 23 3 Chicken Soup for the soul Jack Caufield and Mark Hansen, Editors, Health Communications, $12 15 4 The 7 habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, $121 97 5 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore, HarperPerennial, $12 43 6 A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong, Ballantine, $14 10 7 What To Expect When You're Expecting Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff, and Sandee E. Hathaway, Workman,$10.95 81 8 Lasher Anne Rice, Ballantine, $14 10 9 Dakota: A Spiritual Geography Kathleen Norris, Houghton Mifflin, $9.953 10 Where Angels Walk Joan W. Anderson, Ballantine, $12 34
