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All the advance work over at Alfred A. Knopf for Degree of Guilt has paid off. Billed for months as the literary person's courtroom thriller, a step up from John Grisham's The Firm and the equal of Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, Richard North Patterson's book appears this week at No. 7 on the fiction list. Degree of Guilt will be doing well if it can hold its place through the spring, when new books by Turow and Grisham will appear to challenge it. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 The Bridges Of Madison County 23 Robert James Waller, Warner, $14.95 2 Dragon Tears 2 Dean Koontz, Putnam, $22.95 3 Dolores Claiborne 8 Stephen King, Viking, $23.50 4 The Pelican Brief 46 John Grisham, Doubleday, $22.50 5 The General's Daughter 10 Nelson DeMille, Warner, $21.95 6 Mexico 12 James A. Michener, Random House, $25 7 Degree Of Guilt 2 Richard North Patterson, Knopf, $23 8 Sabine's Notebook 15 Nick Bantock, Chronicle, $17.95 9 Mixed Blessings 10 Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $23.50 10 The Tale Of The Body Thief 14 Anne Rice, Knopf, $24
NONFICTION
1 The Way Things Ought To Be 19 Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, $22 2 Women Who Run With The Wolves 22 Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $20 3 It Doesn't Taake A Hero 16 Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf with Peter Petre, Bantam, $25 4 Bankruptcy 1995 10 Harry E. Figgie, Little, Brown, $19.95 5 The Te Of Piglet 18 Benjamin Hoff, Dutton, $16 6 Excess Baggage 2 Judith Sills, Viking, $21 7 Liberation management 2 Tom Peters, Knopf, $27.50 8 Truman 32 David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $30 9 JFK: Reckless Youth 7 Nigel Hamilton, Random House, $30 10 Every Living Thing 1 James Herriot, St. Martin's, $22.95
