Arts

BEST SELLERS: October 15, 2000

Published: October 15, 2000

Weeks

This Last On

Week Week List Fiction

1 2 2 THE RESCUE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $22.95.) A volunteer fireman helps a young single mother search for her missing son, a 4-year-old with severe learning disabilities.

2 1 6 THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON, by Tom Clancy. (Putnam, $28.95.) Aided by the antiterrorism specialist John Clark, President Jack Ryan contends with sinister forces afoot in Russia and China.

3 3 3 THE SKY IS FALLING, by Sidney Sheldon. (Morrow, $26.) A young anchorwoman investigates five seemingly accidental deaths that have befallen America's most charismatic family.

4 5 6 OPEN HOUSE, by Elizabeth Berg. (Random House, $23.95.) A newly divorced woman attempts to rebuild her life by taking in a series of boarders.

5 1 DROWNING RUTH, by Christina Schwarz. (Doubleday, $23.95.) In 1919, after the mysterious death of her sister, a Wisconsin woman takes control of the family farm and her niece.

6 4 5 THE SWITCH, by Sandra Brown. (Warner, $25.95.) A woman serving as a legendary astronaut's media escort searches for her identical twin sister's killer.

7 6 3 SHATTERED, by Dick Francis. (Putnam, $25.95.) A glass blower runs afoul of dangerous people after his jockey friend dies from a fall in a steeplechase at Cheltenham.

8 7 4 THE BLIND ASSASSIN, by Margaret Atwood. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26.) The story of two Canadian sisters, one of whom dies in a car crash and leaves behind a science fiction novel that achieves cult status.

9 14 5 FOUR BLONDES, by Candace Bushnell. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) The love lives of glamorous Manhattan women as seen by the author of ''Sex and the City.''

10 8 9 WINTER SOLSTICE, by Rosamunde Pilcher. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $27.95.) As Christmas approaches, five lost souls in the north of Scotland discover the healing power of love.

11 9 4 THE VOYAGE OF THE JERLE SHANNARA: Ilse Witch, by Terry Brooks. (Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.95.) The first volume in a fantasy series.

12 12 5 MORGAN'S RUN, by Colleen McCullough. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A British convict, banished to Australia in 1788, finds a new life and a new love.

13 11 4 PAGAN BABIES, by Elmore Leonard. (Delacorte, $24.95.) A priest who may not be a priest joins forces with an ex-con looking for her big payday.

14 13 6 FAITH OF THE FALLEN, by Terry Goodkind. (Tor/ Tom Doherty, $27.95.) In Volume 6 of the ''Sword of Truth'' fantasy series, Richard is captured on returning home.

15 1 A DENSITY OF SOULS, by Christopher Rice. (Talk Miramax/Hyperion, $23.95.) Four young friends in New Orleans are torn apart by treachery and violence.

Weeks

This Last On

Week Week List Nonfiction

1 1 5 NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) The story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

2 2 3 THE O'REILLY FACTOR, by Bill O'Reilly. (Broadway, $23.) The host of a cable news program offers opinions on what's right with America and what's wrong with it.

3 3 156 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) The author, a sportswriter, tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door.

4 7 20 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE, by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins. (Putnam, $24.95.) A memoir by the Tour de France champion and cancer survivor.

5 4 6 SELLOUT, by David P. Schippers with Alan P. Henry. (Regnery, $27.95.) The former chief Republican counsel for the House Judiciary Committee presents an account of President Clinton's impeachment. (+)

6 5 4 I LOVE YOU, RONNIE, by Nancy Reagan. (Random House, $24.95.) Ronald Reagan's letters to his wife, along with her reflections on them.

7 6 11 LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE, by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison. (Dutton, $23.95.) A guided tour of the afterlife, by a ''working psychic.''
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