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Week List Fiction

1 1 HARRY POTTER AND THE INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $69.95.) Laid off from his job, a British man uses magical powers learned in childhood to obtain insider information.

2 8 LO'S GUPPY, by Pia Pera. Introduction, preface, foreword, afterword, disclaimer and notes by Dmitri Nabokov. (Kinko's, $12.95.) Nymphet pet spills all.

3 96 *THE BRIDGES OF YOKNAPATAWPHA COUNTY, by Robert James Waller. (Warner/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $60.) On assignment in Mississippi, a photographer dumps his whiny Iowa girlfriend.

4 203 HARRY POTTER AND THE RECEDING HAIRLINE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $59.95.) A British man battles an insidious force.

5 3 ''X'' IS FOR XYLOPHONES THAT FALL OUT OF THE SKY AND LAND ON PEOPLE, KILLING THEM, by Sue Grafton. (Wood/Holt/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $65.) Kinsey Millhone tackles her most baffling case.

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6 47 *PRESUMED INDIGENT, by Scott Turow. (Farrar, Straus & Lewinsky, $69.95.) Gripping legal aid drama.

7 9 *THE GLUE THAT BINDS, by Dick Francis. (Putnam/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $68.) Past their prime at the racetrack, a thoroughbred and his jockey are earmarked for jobs in industry.

8 1 *VERILY, HE RENT MY BODICE, by Joyce Carol Oates writing as Jackie Collins. (Harvard University/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $64.95.) Romance for cogitators, with emphasis on psychopathology.

9 34 *THE GREEN MILE: Parts 73-78, by Stephen King. (Signet/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $99.95.) In six new installments of a thriller set on death row, convicts' appeals continue to wend their way through the judicial system. (+)

10 77 THWACK! by John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Jeffrey Archer and Dean Koontz. (Farrar, Straus & Lewinsky, $77.) Rance Vulgate pilots a nuclear submarine back to A.D. 1066 for hand-to-hand combat with an international cartel of baddies. (+)

11 80 HEART'S PLASMA: The Love Poems of Michael Crichton. (Yale University/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $48.) A slim volume of early work by the poet laureate.

12 97 HARRY POTTER AND THE CACHE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $49.95.) After graduating from a school for witchcraft, a British boy is compelled to test the potency of a wide range of elixirs and herbs.

13 1,055 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $29.95.) A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is threatened.

14 1,069 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $27.95.) A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school.

15 1,094 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J. K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $26.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school for witchcraft.

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Week Week List Nonfiction

1 53 CLUTCH, by Edmund Morris. (Random House/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $75.) The authorized biography of President Jesse Ventura, as told by people who may have met him once. (+)

2 76 'TAIN'T, by Frank McCourt. (Doubleday/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $69.95.) A writer discovers that his richly textured recollections of an Irish boyhood were the product of false-memory syndrome.

3 2 WEDNESDAYS WITH GERTIE, by Mitch Albom. (ReganBooks/HarperCollins/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $68.) The author recounts his hourly visits to his first-grade teacher, who had developed a cold but, disappointingly, recovered. (+)

4 44 EARLY AFTERNOON IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, by John Berendt. (Random House/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $67.95.) Nothing ever seems to happen in sleepy Savannah, Ga.

5 1 *MY LITTLE ACRE, by Donald J. Trump. (Kinko's, $299.95.) The author recounts his purchase of a 12-mile-long island off the coast of New Jersey and his declaration of it as an autonomous principality. (+)

6 53 DAVE BARRY TURNS 70, by Dave Barry. (Crown/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $59.95.) Sans teeth, sans eyes, Sansabelt, sans everything.

7 2 *WINDOWS ON MY SOUL: A Memoir, by the Rev. William H. Gates. (Yale University/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $199.95; $299.95 with CD-ROM.) The evangelist describes the spiritual awakening that led him to take a vow of comparative poverty and pursue a higher calling.

8 68 ON MUD WRESTLING, by Joyce Carol Oates. (Dutton/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $59.95.) Trenchant cultural analysis, with emphasis on psychopathology.

9 3 CALL ME HARRY, by the Artist Formerly Known as the Artist. (Farrar, Straus & Lewinsky, $60.) The pop star explains his recent public identification with a hero of juvenile magic realist literature.

10 101 TOUJOURS LEVITTOWN, by Peter Mayle. (Knopf/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $78.) Departing France one step ahead of his earthy, scythe-wielding neighbors, a writer settles down to the folksy life in America.

11 253 *THE PERFECT MESS, by Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger. (Norton/Starbucks/Oprah Winfrey, $78.) The authors set sail for Everest in a small flammable boat stocked with a ton of nitroglycerine and a single M&M.

12 18 PUT OUT MORE FLAGS, by Tiger Woods. (Farrar, Straus & Lewinsky, $79.95.) The author recounts how, by squeezing in practice time between Congressional floor votes, he shot a 52 to win his 15th consecutive Masters.

13 4 TOM & JERRY: The Correspondence of Thomas Pynchon and J. D. Salinger, edited by Ian Hamilton. (A.C.L.U./Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $79.95.) Material from newly declassified archives.

14 2 AFTER THE FIRST FACE LIFT THERE IS NO OTHER: A Political Memoir, by Naomi Wolf. (Farrar, Straus & Lewinsky, $89.95.) As we grow wiser with the years, the author argues, reappraising long-held ideological principles becomes ever more important. (+)

15 12 BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, by Robert Bly. (Farrar, Straus & Lewinsky, $67.) Asserting masculinity without elevating blood pressure.

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Week Week List Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous

1 4 MARTHA STEWART'S SUMMIT MEETINGS, by Martha Stewart. (Foreign Affairs/Martha Stewart, $300.) Make an attractive centerpiece out of laid-down Kalashnikovs.

2 527 MEN ARE FROM BROOKLYN, WOMEN ARE FROM QUEENS, by John Gray. (Kinko's, $10.) Relationship advice for truly intractable cases. (+)

3 802 CHICKEN SOUP FOR HARRY POTTER'S SOUL, by J. K. Rowling and a bunch of other people. (Health Communications/Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $59.95.) Inspiration.

4 53 LAST TO BE CHOSEN: Kickball and the Wounded Spirit, by Deepak Chopra. (Microsoft/Martha Stewart, $74.95.) Inspiration; a Chopra's Book Club selection.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Dec. 21, at the two book superstores, the independent bookstore, plus wholesalers serving 500,000,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, automatic teller machines, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's plot is barely distinguishable from that of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that a book's text is too long for a Palm Pilot.

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