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(CNN) -- Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six" holds the top place 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
Wall Street Journal
bestselling books
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Fiction
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Nonfiction/General
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 "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy (Putnam) Read the interview!
 "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb (HarperCollins)
Read the review!
 "Point of Origin" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)
 "The First Eagle" by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins)
 "Summer Sisters" by Judy Blume (Delacorte) Read the review!
 "Message in a Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner) Read the first chapter!
 "Bridget Jones's Diary" By Helen Fielding (Viking) Read the review!
 "Moon Music" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
 "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden (Knopf) Read the review!
 "The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham (Doubleday) Read the first chapter!
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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
"A Pirate Looks at Fifty" by Jimmy Buffett (Random House) Read the first chapter!
"The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman (Crown)
"A Night Without Armor" by Jewel (HarperCollins) Hear her read her poetry!
"In the Meantime" by Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster) Read the first chapter!
"The Millionaire Next Door" by T. Stanley and W. Danko (Longstreet Press)
"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" by John Gray (HarperCollins)
"Mars and Venus Starting Over" 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 15, 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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Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy (Putnam) Read the interview!
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells (HarperPerennial) (F-P)
"Petals on the River" by Kathleen Woodiwiss (Avon) (F-P)
"Dr. Atkin's New Diet Revolution" by Robert C. Atkins (Avon) (NF-P)
"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)
"Rising Tides" by Nora Roberts (Jove) (F-P)
Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul" by J.Canfield, M. Hansen, M. Becker and C. Kline (HCI) (NF-P)
"I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb (HarperCollins) (F-H) Read the review!
"The Best Laid Plans" by Sydney Sheldon (Warner) (F-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).
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