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Thursday, December 24, 1998 4:44:39 PM
(CNN) -- Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" and "The Century" by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster stayed atop the non-fiction lists this week. Following are top ten lists from the latest Wall Street Journal and USA Today lists, as reported by the Associated Press.
WALL STREET JOURNAL | USA TODAY
Wall Street Journal
bestselling books
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Fiction
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Nonfiction/General
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"A Man In Full" by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Read the review
"Bag of Bones" by Stephen King (Scribner) Read the Salon interview!
"Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy (Putnam) Read the interview!
"Mirror Image" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
"When the Wind Blows" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
"The Simple Truth" by David Baldacci (Warner Books)
"The Vampire Armand" by Anne Rice (Knopf) Read the review!
"All Through the Night" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon &
Schuster)
"Today I Feel Silly" by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell (HarperCollins)
"The Locket" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster)
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"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw (Random House)
"The Century" by P. Jennings and T. Brewster (Doubleday)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) Read the review
"Blind Man's Bluff" by S. Sontag and C. Drew with A. Drew (Public Affairs)
"Guinness Book of Records" by various editors (Guinness Publishing)
"The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman (Crown)
"Emeril's TV Dinners" by Emeril Lagasse (William Morrow)
"A Night Without Armor" by Jewel (HarperCollins) Hear Jewel read her poetry!
"For the Love of the Game" by M. Jordan and Vancill (Crown)
"One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" by Iyanla Vanzant (Fireside)
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The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of
hardcover books during the week ending December 23, 1998, 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.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL | USA TODAY
USA Today
bestselling books
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Key: F-Fiction, NF-Nonfiction, H-Hardcover, P-Paperback
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"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw (Random House) (NF-H)
"The Century" by P. Jennings and T. Brewster (Doubleday) (NF-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)
"Inner Harbor" by Nora Roberts (Jove) (F-P)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) (NF-H) Read the review!
"Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts (Warner)
"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff" by Richard Carlson (Hyperion) (NF-P)
"Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul" by J. Canfield, M. Hansen, K. Kirberger (HCI) (NF-P)
"Bag of Bones" by Stephen King (Scribner) (F-H) Excerpts and news!
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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).
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WALL STREET JOURNAL | USA TODAY
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