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PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: January 12, 1997


Published: January 12, 1997

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Week List Fiction

1 6 THE ENGLISH PATIENT, by Michael Ondaatje. (Vintage, $12.) Four damaged people are left behind in a Tuscan villa at the end of World War II.

1 13 THE HORSE WHISPERER, by Nicholas Evans. (Dell, $7.50.) A woman seeks solace for herself, her daughter and their horse from a wrangler.

3 6 THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton. (Anchor/Doubleday, $11.95.) Domestic violence rips apart a young woman's life in a tiny Illinois town.

4 11 SONG OF SOLOMON, by Toni Morrison. (Plume/Penguin, $11.95.) A black man's search for his family's history. (+)

5 66 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, by David Guterson. (Vintage, $12.) A murder trial recalls the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. (+)

6 3 *THE FINAL JUDGMENT, by Richard North Patterson. (Ballantine, $6.99.) A young woman is charged with killing her boyfriend.

7 17 THE LOST WORLD, by Michael Crichton. (Ballantine, $7.99.) Scientists visit a Costa Rican jungle that is the breeding ground of dinosaurs.

8 8 THE CRY OF THE HALIDON, by Robert Ludlum. (Bantam, $7.50.) A man undertakes a potentially dangerous geological survey in Jamaica.

9 12 SILENT NIGHT, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Pocket, $5.99.) A family finds adversity and renewed courage during a Christmas visit to New York.

10 3 THE UGLY DUCKLING, by Iris Johansen. (Bantam, $5.99.) A woman contends with a man who brutally attacked her.

11 3 HOLDING THE DREAM, by Nora Roberts. (Jove, $6.99.) A woman raised in grandeur discovers that her past is haunted by a dark secret.

12 8 *THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES, by Amy Tan. (Ivy/Ballantine, $6.99.) The changing relationship between a Chinese-American woman and her older Chinese half sister.

13 2 THE POET, by Michael Connelly. (Warner Vision, $6.99.) A reporter's brother is murdered by a literate serial killer who has a fondness for Poe.

14 1 SSN, by Tom Clancy. (Berkley, $15.) When World War III breaks out, the captain of a nuclear submarine has 15 scenarios with which to cope with the enemy.

15 7 SHOCK WAVE, by Clive Cussler. (Pocket, $7.99.) Dirk Pitt contends with a ruthless man whose diamond-mining operations threaten human life.

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Week List NonFiction

1 18 A CIVIL ACTION, by Jonathan Harr. (Vintage, $13.) A lawsuit brought by Massachusetts householders against industrial polluters. (+)

2 43 HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION, by Thomas Cahill. (Anchor/Doubleday, $12.95.) As the Roman Empire disintegrated, Irish monks copied Western literature. (+)

3 14 LONGITUDE, by Dava Sobel. (Penguin, $10.95.) The story of John Harrison, the 18th-century Englishman who invented the chronometer.

4 11 RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT, by Al Franken. (Island/Dell, $6.99.) A television comedian's comments on the political scene.

5 8 THE ROAD AHEAD, by Bill Gates with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. (Penguin, $15.95.) What's ahead on the information highway; CD-ROM included. (+)

6 94 REVIVING OPHELIA, by Mary Pipher. (Ballantine, $12.50.) The everyday dangers that beset teen-age girls. (+)

7 10 THE REAL WORLD DIARIES. (MTV/Melcher Media/Pocket, $18.) A new collection of behind-the-scenes stories and photographs related to the television show ''The Real World.''

8 37 WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. (Ballantine, $7.99.) How women can understand their psyches. (+)

9 14 HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial, $12.50.) Essays about motherhood, nature and other topics by the novelist.

10 33 *SLEEPERS, by Lorenzo Carcaterra. (Ballantine, $6.99.) The true story, the narrator claims, of boys in a reformatory and the revenge they later take.

11 10 MISS AMERICA, by Howard Stern. (Regan Books/Harper Paperbacks, $7.99.) Anecdotes and fulminations from the radio talk show host.

12 40 THE LIARS' CLUB, by Mary Karr. (Penguin, $11.95.) A poet recalls her childhood as a member of a troubled family in East Texas. (+)

13 22 SPONTANEOUS HEALING, by Andrew Weil. (Fawcett, $12.95.) How the body heals itself. (+)

14 4 *DAVID BRINKLEY, by David Brinkley. (Ballantine, $12.) From a boyhood in North Carolina through five decades as a newscaster. (+)

15 23 A GOOD WALK SPOILED, by John Feinstein. (Little, Brown, $13.95.) A sportswriter reports on the P.G.A. Tour in 1993 and 1994. (+)

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Week List Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous

1 9 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL, compiled by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Marci Shimoff. (Health Communications, $12.95.) Inspiration. (+)

2 13 THE RULES, by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider. (Warner, $5.99.) The authors offer ''secrets for capturing the heart of Mr. Right.'' (+)

3 16 IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD, by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel, $14.95.) A new collection of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' cartoons.

4 120 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL, compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications, $12.95.) More inspirational stories. (+)

Rankings reflect sales figures, for the week ending Dec. 28, at 3,985 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers, 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.
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