Fiction
| Last Week | Weeks on List | ||
| 1 | The Lovely Bones. Alice Sebold. Little, Brown, $21.95 ISBN 0-316-66634-3 | 3 | 21 |
| 2 | Skipping Christmas. John Grisham. Doubleday, $19.95 ISBN 0-385-50583-3 | 5 | 19 |
| 3 | Chesapeake Blue. Nora Roberts. Putnam, $25.95 ISBN 0-399-14939-2 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Visions of Sugar Plums. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's, $19.95 ISBN 0-312-30632-6 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | The Christmas Train. David Baldacci. Warner, $19.95 ISBN 0-446-52573-1 | 11 | 2 |
| 6 | Reversible Errors. Scott Turow. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28 ISBN 0-374-28160-2 | 4 | 3 |
| 7 | Answered Prayers. Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $26.95 ISBN 0-385-33543-1 | 8 | 3 |
| 8 | Quentins. Maeve Binchy. Dutton, $25.95 ISBN 0-525-94682-9 | 10 | 3 |
| 9 | Blackwood Farm. Anne Rice. Knopf, $26.95 ISBN 0-375-41199-2 | 6 | 3 |
| 10 | Q Is for Quarry. Sue Grafton. Putnam, $26.95 ISBN 0-399-14915-5 | 7 | 5 |
| 11 | The Little Friend. Donna Tartt. Knopf, $26 ISBN 0-679-43938-2 | 9 | 4 |
| 12 | Esther's Gift. Jan Karon. Viking, $10.95 ISBN 0-670-03121-6 | 15 | 3 |
| 13 | Nights in Rodanthe. Nicholas Sparks. Warner, $22.95 ISBN 0-446-53133-2 | 14 | 9 |
| 14 | The Last Promise. Richard Paul Evans. Dutton, $22.95 ISBN 0-525-94696-9 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Blessings. Anna Quindlen. Random House, $24.95 ISBN 0-375-50223-8 | 13 | 9 |
Nonfiction
| Last Week | Weeks on List | ||
| 1 | Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95 ISBN 0-399-14932-5 | — | 1 |
| 2 | Leadership. Rudolph W. Giuliani. Talk Miramax, $25.95 ISBN 0-7868-6841-4 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland. Tom Brokaw. Random House, $24.95 ISBN 0-375-50763-9 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround. Louis V. Gerstner Jr. HarperBusiness, $27.95 ISBN 0-06-052379-4 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Journals. Kurt Cobain. Riverhead, $29.95 ISBN 1-57322-232-1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | My Losing Season. Pat Conroy. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $27.95 ISBN 0-385-48912-9 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson. Putnam, $19.95 ISBN 0-399-14446-3 | 5 | 150 |
| 8 | I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It. Charles Barkley; edited by Michael Wilbon. Random House, $22.95 ISBN 0-375-50883-X | 10 | 2 |
| 9 | Sandy Koufax. Jane Leavy. HarperCollins, $23.95 ISBN 0-06-019533-9 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller. Little, Brown, $25.95 ISBN 0-316-78146-0 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | The Conquerors. Michael R. Beschloss. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 ISBN 0-684-81027-1 | 8 | 3 |
| 12 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't. Jim Collins. HarperBusiness, $27.50 ISBN 0-06-662099-6 | 7 | 21 |
| 13 | Get with the Program! Bob Greene. Simon & Schuster, $24 ISBN 0-7432-2599-6 | 9 | 18 |
| 14 | The Sopranos Family Cookbook. Allen Rucker; recipes by Michele Scicolone. Warner, $29.95 ISBN 0-446-53057-3 | — | 4 |
| 15 | Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. Bruce Feiler. Morrow, $23.95 ISBN 0-380-97776-1 | 12 | 8 |
