Fiction Hardcover
1. THE TESTAMENT
By John Grisham (Doubleday $27.95)
A billionaire, a lawyer and a missionary are linked by a startling secret.
2. SOUTHERN CROSS
By Patricia Cornwell (Putnam $25.95)
Corruption, scandal, robberies and murder rock Richmond, Va.
3. A MAN IN FULL
By Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux $28.95)
Racial conflict, politics and big-money deals in present-day Atlanta.
4. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
By Barbara Kingsolver (HarperFlamingo $27.50)
The story of an evangelical minister who moves his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
5. BILLY STRAIGHT
By Jonathan Kellerman (Random House $25.95)
A 12-year-old street kid teams up with a detective to find a murderer.
6. IN DANGER’S PATH
By W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam $24.95)
Fleming Pickering’s daring missions in the Gobi Desert during World War II.
7. THE CAT WHO SAW STARS
By Lilian Jackson Braun (Putnam $22.95)
Amateur sleuth Jim Qwilleran tracks a hiker supposedly abducted by UFOs.
8. RANSOM
By Julie Garwood (Pocket $24)
A medieval maiden fights to regain her family’s land from a power-hungry British ruler.
9. SEIZE THE NIGHT
By Dean Koontz (Bantam $26.95)
A detective tracks down children and pets abducted from a California community.
10. THE SIMPLE TRUTH
By David Baldacci (Warner $25)
A convicted killer’s appeal uncovers a conspiracy that reaches into the Supreme Court.
Nonfiction Hardcover
1. THE GREATEST GENERATION
By Tom Brokaw (Random House $24.95)
A celebration of the generation that came of age during World War II.
2. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
By Mitch Albom (Doubleday $19.95)
A journalist shares the lessons he learned about life during visits with a dying professor.
3. HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT AND WANT WHAT YOU HAVE
By John Gray (HarperCollins, $24.95)
The self-help guru’s course on achieving personal success.
4. LIFE STRATEGIES
By Phillip C. McGraw (Hyperion $21.95)
Ten laws for taking responsibility for one’s own actions and ending self-destruction patterns.
5. ONE DAY MY SOUL JUST OPENED UP
By Iyanla Vanzant (Simon & Schuster/Fireside $13)
A 40-day spiritual self-help program.
6. SUGAR BUSTERS!
By H. Leighton Steward (Ballantine $23.95)
Shows how to “cut sugar to trim fat.”
7. BLIND MAN’S BLUFF
By Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette L. Drew (Public Affairs $25)
True stories of American submarine espionage.
8. THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM
By Suze Orman (Crown $23)
Strategies for achieving financial goals.
9. BEAUTY FADES, DUMB IS FOREVER
By Judge Judy Sheindlin (HarperCollins $22)
Straight talk on marriage, parenting and men, directed at women.
10. THE ART OF HAPPINESS
By the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler (Riverhead $22.95)
Conversations, stories and meditations illustrate how to defeat anxiety, insecurity, anger and discouragement.
