CNN - Books: Bestsellers - December 18, 1998

(CNN) -- As the year marches steadily toward its close, two wide-ranging retrospectives top the nonfiction category: Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" and "The Century" by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster. Following are top tens from the latest Wall Street Journal and USA Today lists, as reported by the Associated Press.

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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! "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King (Scribner) Excerpts and news! "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy (Putnam) See and hear 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) "The Locket" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster) "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperFlamingo)	"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) "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman (Crown) "Guinness Book of Records" by various editors (Guinness Publishing) "A Night Without Armor" by Jewel (HarperCollins) Hear Jewel read her poetry! "Emeril's TV Dinners" by Emeril Lagasse (William Morrow) "For the Love of the Game" by M. Jordan and Vancill (Crown) "Great Political Wit" by Bob Dole (Doubleday)
The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ending December 12, 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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USA Today bestselling books
Key: F-Fiction, NF-Nonfiction, H-Hardcover, P-Paperback
"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw (Random House) (NF-H) "The Century" by P. Jennings and T. Brewster (Doubleday) "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II" by J. Canfield, M. Hansen and K. Kirberger (HCI) (NF-P) "Inner Harbor" by Nora Roberts (Jove) (F-P) "Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts (Warner) (F-P) "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (F-H) Read the review! "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) (NF-H) Read the review! "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! "A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul" by J. Canfield, M. Hansen, M. Shimoff, J. Hawthorne (HCI) (NF-P)
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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