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Web posted on: Friday, August 28, 1998 4:46:41 PM EDT
(CNN) -- Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six" shows its strength by maintaining top status on both best-selling 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
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Wall Street Journal bestselling books | |
| Fiction | Nonfiction/General |
 "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy (Putnam) Read the interview!
 "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb (HarperCollins)
Read the review!
 "The First Eagle" by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins)
 "Summer Sisters" by Judy Blume (Delacorte) Read the review!
 "Point of Origin" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)
 "Message in a Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner) Read the first chapter!
 "Bridget Jones's Diary" By Helen Fielding (Viking) Read the review!
 "Now You See Her" by Linda Howard (Pocket Books)
 "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden (Knopf) Read the review!
 "Moon Music" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
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"Sugar Busters!" by H.L. Steward, M. Bethea, et al. (Ballantine)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) Read the review
"The Day Diana Died" by Christoper Andersen (Morrow)
"The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman (Crown)
"A Pirate Looks at Fifty" by Jimmy Buffett (Random House) Read the first chapter!
"A Night Without Armor" by Jewel (HarperCollins) Hear her read her poetry!
"The Millionaire Next Door" by T. Stanley and W. Danko (Longstreet Press)
"In the Meantime" by Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster) Read the first chapter!
"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" by John Gray (HarperCollins)
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
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The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ending August 29, 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. | |
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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"Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy (Putnam) Read the interview!
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells (HarperPerennial) (F-P)
"Raven" by V.C. Andrews (Pocket Books) (F-P)
"Dr. Atkin's New Diet Revolution" by Robert C. Atkins (Avon) (NF-P)
"Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly) (F-P) Read the first chapter!
"Sugar Busters!" by H.L. Steward, M. Bethea, et al. (Ballantine) (NF-H)
"The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision) (F-P)
"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff" By Richard Carlson (Hyperion) NF-P)
"Animorphs: The Threat" by K.A. Applegate (Scholastic) (F-P)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) (NF-H) Read the review!
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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). | |