Midas Touch: Sidney Sheldon is predictably back on the fiction list with Memories of Midnight, the sequel to his 1974 hit, The Other Side of Midnight, and chockful of genre staples: beautiful woman, cunning tycoon, Greek setting. weeks on | Fiction list 1 The Burden of Proof 11 Scott Turow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.95 2 Memories of Midnight 1 Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $21.95 3 The Women in His Life 2 Barbara Taylor Bradford, Random House, $21.95 4 Message From Nam 10 Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $21.95 5 Coyote Waits 8 Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, $19.95 6 The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition 16 Stephen King, Doubleday, $24.95 7 Get Shorty 4 Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, $18.95 8 Hammerheads 4 Dale Brown, Donald I. Fine, $19.95 9 Stardust 5 Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $18.95 10 September 19 Rosamunde Pilcher, St. Martin's, $22.95

Nonfiction 1 Men at Work 21 George Will, Macmillan, $19.95 2 Wealth Without Risk 81 Charles Givens, Simon & Schuster, $19.95 3 Dave Barry Turns 40 14 Dave Barry, Crown, $16.95 4 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco 31 Bryan Burrough & John Helyar, HarperCollins, $22.95 5 Homecoming 8 John Bradshaw, Bantam, $18.95 6 The Politics of Rich and Poor 5 Kevin Phillips, Random House, $19.95 7 You Just Don't Understand: Women & Men in Conversation3 Deborah Tannen, Morrow, $18.95 8 Every Spy a Prince 4 Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Houghton Mifflin, $22.95 9 LIFE 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School-But Didn't 6 John-Roger and Peter McWilliams, Prelude Press, $18.95 10 Megatrends 2000 31 John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene, Morrow, $21.95