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Week Week List Fiction

1 1 2 THE PARTNER, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $26.95.) The pursuit of $90 million stolen by a Mississippi lawyer who has apparently died and been cremated -- but is actually hiding in Brazil.

2 2 5 SOLE SURVIVOR, by Dean Koontz. (Knopf, $25.95.) A reporter searches for a woman who claims to know a secret about the plane crash that killed his family.

3 4 8 TOTAL CONTROL, by David Baldacci. (Warner, $25.) A woman's effort to find her husband, who has disappeared, discloses many of big business's current ways.

4 3 8 HORNET'S NEST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $25.95.) The experiences of two policewomen and a reporter as they patrol the streets of Charlotte, N.C.

5 5 22 THE NOTEBOOK, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $16.95.) A World War II veteran meets an old flame who is about to be married.

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6 6 4 *EVENING CLASS, by Maeve Binchy. (Delacorte, $24.95.) Family secrets, aspirations and passions surface during a course in Italian at a Dublin school.

7 14 2 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY, by Arthur C. Clarke. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.) One of the heroes of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' returns to life and tries to save the human race from a dangerous monolith.

8 7 6 SMALL TOWN GIRL, by LaVyrle Spencer. (Putnam, $23.95.) A country music star, returning to her Missouri hometown, finds a new self and a new life.

9 8 14 AIRFRAME, by Michael Crichton. (Knopf, $26.) A young woman investigates a near disaster that befell a plane on its way from Hong Kong to Denver.

10 9 3 THE LIST, by Steve Martini. (Putnam, $24.95.) A writer's scheme to get her novel on the best-seller list leads to a murder and endangers her own life.

11 10 26 *THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, by Jacquelyn Mitchard. (Viking, $23.95.) The disappearance of a 3-year-old brings a family anguish and redemption. (+)

12 13 154 THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, by James Redfield. (Warner, $17.95.) An ancient manuscript, found in Peru, provides insights into achieving a fulfilling life. (+)

13 1 A THIN DARK LINE, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $22.95.) A Louisiana deputy's determination to correct a botched murder case carries her into a morass of treachery.

14 12 9 SILENT WITNESS, by Richard North Patterson. (Knopf, $25.95.) Two murder cases change the lives of men and women who grew up in a Midwestern town.

15 5 THE CAT WHO TAILED A THIEF, by Lilian Jackson Braun. (Putnam, $22.95.) Jim Qwilleran and his two feline sleuths battle a crime wave in a small town.

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Week Week List Nonfiction

1 1 3 MURDER IN BRENTWOOD, by Mark Fuhrman. (Regnery, $24.95.) The O. J. Simpson murder trial as observed by the man who was a key prosecution witness.

2 2 6 PERSONAL HISTORY, by Katharine Graham. (Knopf, $29.95.) The autobiography of the former publisher of The Washington Post and capital grande dame.

3 3 27 ANGELA'S ASHES, by Frank McCourt. (Scribner, $24.) An Irish-American writer recalls his childhood amid the miseries of Limerick.

4 4 7 THE GIFT OF PEACE, by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. (Loyola Press, $17.95.) Reflections on the last three years of his life by the late Archbishop of Chicago. (+)

5 5 14 CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, by Neale Donald Walsch. (Putnam, $19.95.) The author addresses questions of life and love, good and evil, guilt and sin. (+)

6 6 3 HIS NAME IS RON, by the family of Ron Goldman with William and Marilyn Hoffer. (Morrow, $24.95.) Ron Goldman's family reflects on his life and death.

7 8 9 *THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. (Longstreet, $22.) An analysis of the lives of wealthy Americans discloses that they have seven characteristics in common. (+)

8 7 6 JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. (Drew/Scribner, $25.) A former F.B.I. profiler describes the nature of vicious serial criminals.

9 12 140 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, by John Berendt. (Random House, $23.) The mysterious death of a young man in Savannah, Ga. (+)

10 14 19 MY SERGEI, by Ekaterina Gordeeva with E. M. Swift. (Warner, $18.95.) A memoir of the Russian ice skater Sergei Grinkov by his longtime partner and wife.

11 9 14 *A REPORTER'S LIFE, by Walter Cronkite. (Knopf, $26.95.) From Kansas City newsboy to newspaper reporter to television anchorman: a memoir.

12 13 3 THE MORAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN, by Robert Coles. (Random House, $21.) The psychiatrist discusses the problem of raising a child to be a good citizen with values that will last a lifetime.

13 11 4 WHAT FALLS AWAY, by Mia Farrow. (Talese/Doubleday, $25.) From a childhood in Beverly Hills to a troubled relationship with Woody Allen: a memoir.

14 15 50 UNDAUNTED COURAGE, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster, $27.50.) The story of how Thomas Jefferson sponsored Lewis and Clark's exploration. (+)

15 44 THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE, by Scott Adams. (Harper Business, $22.) Observations on the foibles of the business world, reported in words and cartoons. (+)

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Week Week List Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous

1 20 MAKE THE CONNECTION, by Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey. (Hyperion, $18.95.) Ways to improve one's life physically and mentally.

2 1 50 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE, by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner, $17.95.) Advice for women seeking to improve the way they look at themselves. (+)

3 2 7 THE ARTHRITIS CURE, by Jason Theodosakis, Brenda Adderly and Barry Fox. (St. Martin's, $22.95.) A strategy for combating osteoarthritis.

4 1 EIGHT WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH, by Andrew Weil. (Knopf, $23.) A physician's diet, exercise and psychological program. (+)

Rankings reflect sales figures, for the week ending March 8, at 3,985 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent sales in all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders for a book.

And Bear in Mind

(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest)

THE COMING CONFLICT WITH CHINA, by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro. (Knopf, $23.) Two experienced Beijing correspondents argue that on the whole toughness, not accommodation, should govern America's policy toward a rapidly ascending great power.

CRAZY RHYTHM: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond . . ., by Leonard Garment. (Times Books/Random House, $27.50.) An astute memoir by an atypical confidant (Jewish, arty, psychoanalyzed) of Richard Nixon.

DEADLY FEASTS: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, by Richard Rhodes. (Simon & Schuster, $24.) An exploration of the family of scary diseases (including mad cow) that may be due to nonliving biological agents.

A FACE AT THE WINDOW, by Dennis McFarland. (Broadway, $25.) A beguiling narrative that revives the ghost story by merging it with American domestic anxieties.

GIRLS, by Frederick Busch. (Harmony, $23.) Mr. Busch's fierce, accurate novel about the search for a missing 14-year-old girl recaptures crime and detection from detention by pop fiction.

GROOMING, GOSSIP, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE, by Robin Dunbar. (Harvard University, $22.95.) We're chatterers, according to this fresh, witty book, for good reason: gossip, like primate grooming, helps cement social ties.

LAST COMES THE EGG, by Bruce Duffy. (Simon & Schuster, $23.) Disturbing and original, this novel of adolescents on the run in the 1960's shows the scars beneath postwar American optimism.

A LIFE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD, by Nicholas Murray. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $27.95.) An affectionate, timely (in our day of a thousand shibboleths) biography of a great Victorian whose mind was capacious, agile, witty and humane.

LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS, by Kirsten Bakis. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23.) A madman's dream comes true in a dazzling first novel about a slightly futuristic Manhattan, invaded by an army of civilized, talking dogs.

A PLACE OF MY OWN: The Education of an Amateur Builder, by Michael Pollan. (Random House, $24.) How a writer, eager to cope, for once, with material entities, built a 104-square-foot ''writing house'' (and wrote this book about it).

RESURRECTION: The Struggle for a New Russia, by David Remnick. (Random House, $25.95.) A thorough, discouraging report on the effective seizure of power in Russia by newly rich uglies.

WHITTAKER CHAMBERS: A Biography, by Sam Tanenhaus. (Random House, $35.) An exhaustively researched life, sympathetic yet not hagiographic, of the accuser of Alger Hiss.

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