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John Sandford rocketed to the top of one fiction chart with "Secret Prey." Following are top tens 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 | |
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 "Secret Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam)
 "A Widow for One Year" by John Irving (Random House) Read the first chapter!
 "'N' Is for Noose" by Sue Grafton (Henry Holt)
 "You Belong to Me" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon and Schuster) Read the first chapter!
 "Message in a Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner) Read the first chapter!
 "The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham (Doubleday) Read the first chapter!
 "Black and Blue" by Anna Quindlen (Random House) Interview
 "The Long Road Home" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
 "Pandora" by Anne Rice (Knopf)
 "Flight of Eagles" by Jack Higgins (Putnam)
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"In the Meantime" by Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster)
"The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman (Crown)
"Still Me" by Christopher Reeve (Random House) Read the first chapter!
"Sugar Busters" by H.L. Steward, M. Bethea et al. (Ballantine)
"Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) Review
"The Millionaire Next Door" by T. Stanley and W. Danko (Longstreet Press)
"Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach (Warner)
"One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" by Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster)
"We Are Our Mothers' Daughters" by Cokie Roberts (Morrow)
"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 May 22, 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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"The Horse Whisperer" by Nicholas Evans (Dell) (F-P)
"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's All Small Stuff" by Richard Carlson (Hyperion) (NF-P)
"Butterfly" by V.C. Andrews (Pocket) (F-P)
"Pretend You Don't See Her" by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket) (F-P)
"Dr. Atkin's New Diet Revolution" by Robert C. Atkins (Avon) (NF-P)
"Animorphs Megamorphs 2: In the Time of Dinosaurs" by K.A. Applegate (Scholastic) (F-P)
"Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Marty Becker and Carol Kline (HCI) (NF-P)
"In the Meantime," by Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster)
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer (Anchor) (NF-P)
"You Belong to Me" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) (F-H) Read the first chapter!
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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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