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Have you read "A Man in Full" or any of this week's best selling titles? Which was the best book of 1998? |
(CNN) -- 1999 began with several new titles on these lists, though Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" remained quite strong. Following are top ten lists from the latest Wall Street Journal and USA Today lists, as reported by the Associated Press.
Web posted on: Friday, January 08, 1999 2:45:22 PM
WALL STREET JOURNAL | USA TODAY
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Wall Street Journal bestselling books | |
| Fiction | Nonfiction/General |
 "A Man In Full" by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Read the review
 "Seize the Night" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
 "Billy Straight" by Jonathan Kellerman (Random House)
 "When the Wind Blows" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
 "The Simple Truth" by David Baldacci (Warner Books)
 "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperFlamingo)
 "Message in a Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Books)
 "Angels Flight" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
 "Marlfox" by Brian Jacques (Philomel)
 "The Hammer of Eden" by Ken Follett (Crown) Read the Salon Magazine interview
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"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw (Random House)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) Read the review
"The Century" by P. Jennings and T. Brewster (Doubleday)
"The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman (Crown)
"Simple Abundance" by Sara Ban Breathnach (Warner)
"Blind Man's Bluff" by S. Sontag and C. Drew with A. Drew (Public Affairs)
"Sugar Busters: by H.L. Steward, M. Bethea, et al. (Ballantine)
"One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" by Iyanla Vanzant (Fireside)
"Making Faces" by Kevyn Aucoin (Little, Brown)
"In the Meantime" by Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster)
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The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ending January 7, 1999, at more than 2,500 B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Crown, Doubleday, Scribners, Super Crown and Waldenbooks stores. | |
WALL STREET JOURNAL | USA TODAY
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USA Today bestselling books | |
| Key: F-Fiction, NF-Nonfiction, H-Hardcover, P-Paperback | |
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"Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts (Warner)
"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw (Random House) (NF-H)
"Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" by Robert C. Atkins (Avon) (NF-P)
"The Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav (Fireside) (NF-P)
"Inner Harbor" by Nora Roberts (Jove) (F-P)
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells (HarperPerennial) (F-P)
"Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II" by J. Canfield, M. Hansen and K. Kirberger (HCI) (NF-P)
"A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
(F-H)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) (NF-H) Read the review!
"A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr (Vintage) (NF-P)
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USA Today's list is based on a computer analysis of retail book sales nationwide during the last week. Included are more than 1 million volumes from approximately 3,000 large-inventory, diverse-content bookstores. USA Today calculates a list of approximately 250 bestselling books. The first 10 are listed. Reporting stores include: Doubleday Book Shops, Hungry Mind Bookstore (St. Paul), Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Cincinnati), Ingram Book Co. (reporting retail sales for independent bookstores including Hawley Cooke Booksellers, Louisville, and a sampling of Little Professor Book Centers), Lauriat's and Royal Discount Book Stores, Scribners Bookstores, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver), Waldenbooks, Waterstone's (Boston), B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble Inc, Books-A-Million and Bookland, Books & Co. (Dayton) Borders Books & Music, Brentano's, Crown Books, Davis Kidd Booksellers (Tennessee). | |