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Longer than the Volga: Russka, Edward Rutherfurd's saga following four families in Russia from the year 180 to just after the revolution, is almost as large as the Soviet Union itself before the loss of the Baltic republics. Although dramatic events of recent history are not within the book's compass, readers have shown their enthusiasm for things Russian by putting it on the fiction list this week at No. 7. WEEKS FICTION ON LIST
1 THE SUM OF ALL FEARS 6 Tom Clancy, Putnam, $24.95 2 SAINT MAYBE 4 Anne Tyler, Knopf, $22 3 THE FIRM 29 John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 4 THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE 13 Amy Tan, Putnam, $22.95 5 THE DOOMSDAY CONSPIRACY 2 Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $22 6 FLOWERS IN THE RAIN AND OTHER STORIES 3 Rosamunde Pilcher, St. Martin's, $20 7 RUSSKA 2 Edward Rutherfurd, Crown, $25 8 LOVES MUSIC, LOVES TO DANCE 20 Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $21.95 9 MAXIMUM BOB 8 Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, $20 10 STAR WARS: HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, Vol. I 17 Timothy Zahn, Spectra/Bantam, $15
NONFICTION
1 FINAL EXIT 6 Derek Humphry, Hemlock/Carol, $16.95 2 PARLIAMENT OF WHORES 14 P.J. O'Rourke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $19.95 3 UH-OH: SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR 4 Robert Fulghum, Villard, $19 4 CHUTZPAH 14 Alan Dershowitz, Little, Brown, $22.95 5 IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN 42 Robert Bly, Addison-Wesley, $18.95 6 TOUJOURS PROVENCE 14 Peter Mayle, Knopf, $20 7 DO IT! LET'S GET OFF OUR BUTS 15 John-Roger and Peter McWilliams, Prelude/Bantam, $20 8 ANNE SEXTON: A BIOGRAPHY 4 Diane Wood Middlebrook, Houghton Mifflin, $24.95 9 WEALTH WITHOUT RISK 133 Charles J. Givens, Simon & Schuster, $19.95 10 FIRE IN THE BELLY: ON BEING A MAN 14 Sam Keen, Bantam, $19.95
