Arts

BEST SELLERS: November 8, 1998

Published: November 08, 1998

Weeks

This Last On

Week Week List Fiction

1 1 THE PATH OF DAGGERS, by Robert Jordan. (Tor/Doherty, $27.95.) The eighth volume in the fantasy series ''The Wheel of Time.''

2 2 2 THE VAMPIRE ARMAND, by Anne Rice. (Knopf, $26.95.) The progress of an eternally young man from ancient Constantinople to contemporary New Orleans.

3 1 5 BAG OF BONES, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $28.) A series of terrifying events besets a best-selling novelist four years after his wife's sudden death.

4 5 2 ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $17.) The mystery of a missing child and a missing chalice is solved in time for Christmas.

5 6 2 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper Flamingo, $26.) Five female characters, a missionary's family, narrate this novel set in the Belgian Congo during that country's fight for independence.

6 3 12 RAINBOW SIX, by Tom Clancy. (Putnam, $27.95.) John Clark, heading an international task force, investigates terrorist incidents in Switzerland, Germany and Spain.

7 8 7 THE LOOP, by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte, $25.95.) A biologist finds herself facing professional and romantic problems while trying to protect wolves in Montana.

8 4 5 WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL! by Fannie Flagg. (Random House, $25.95.) The pleasures and problems of a rising star in television news during the 1970's.

9 9 4 THE HUNDRED DAYS, by Patrick O'Brian. (Norton, $24.) In 1815, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must intercept a shipment of gold intended to aid Napoleon.

10 7 4 THE REEF, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $23.95.) Searching for a jeweled amulet in the depths of the Caribbean, a woman deals with mysteries and romance.

11 10 50 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, by Arthur Golden. (Knopf, $25.) The life of a young woman growing up in Kyoto who has to reinvent herself after World War II begins.

12 1 THE HAMMER OF EDEN, by Ken Follett. (Crown, $25.95.) An F.B.I. agent finds herself on the trail of terrorists planning a man-made earthquake in California.

13 1 TODAY I FEEL SILLY & OTHER MOODS THAT MAKE MY DAY, by Jamie Lee Curtis. Illustrated by Laura Cornell. (Cotler/HarperCollins, $15.95.) The ever-changing moods of a young girl.

14 16 2 *THE LOCKET, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster, $15.95.) A young man learns much about life, love and compassion while working in a nursing home.

15 11 19 I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE, by Wally Lamb. (Regan Books/HarperCollins, $27.50.) A troubled man must care for his schizophrenic identical-twin brother.

Weeks

This Last On

Week Week List Nonfiction

1 2 55 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door.

2 1 9 THE DEATH OF OUTRAGE, by William J. Bennett. (Free Press, $20.) The former Secretary of Education takes a critical view of the Clinton Presidency. (+)

3 3 7 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, by Laura Schlessinger and Stewart Vogel. (Cliff Street/HarperCollins, $24.) The radio talk-show host and a rabbi discuss the significance of the Ten Commandments in contemporary life.

4 13 2 DAVE BARRY TURNS 50, by Dave Barry. (Crown, $22.) The humorist's observations about reaching the half-century mark.

5 6 5 LINDBERGH, by A. Scott Berg. (Putnam, $30.) The checkered life of Charles A. Lindbergh.

6 9 6 THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, by Simon Winchester. (HarperCollins, $22.) How a murderer helped compile the Oxford English Dictionary.

7 8 4 PURE DRIVEL, by Steve Martin. (Hyperion, $19.95.) Humor pieces by the actor, comedian and writer.

8 7 3 JUST JACKIE, by Edward Klein. (Ballantine, $25.95.) The life of Jacqueline Onassis from the assassination of President Kennedy to her death, 31 years later.
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