Janet Evanovich and Richard North Patterson loom over thriller season, while Norman Mailer and Jim Harrison reward impatient literary fans, and Vikram Chandra's "Indian Godfather" finally bows. In children's books, Matthew Van Fleet delivers the novelty book Dog, and the second book in Jenny Nimmo's the Magician Trilogy arrives.

| JANUARY 1 |* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Storybook and CD (Disney, $12.99). 150,000 copies.* The Magician Trilogy Book Two: Emlyn's Moon by Jenny Nimmo (Orchard, $9.99). 100,000 copies.
| JANUARY 2 |
The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage by Dr. Laura Schlessinger (HarperCollins, $24.95). 350,000 copies.
The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel (Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, but Could Have, and May Yet) by Jill Conner Browne with Karin Gillespie (S&S, $22.95). 250,000 copies.
Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers by Naomi Judd (S&S, $23). 150,000 copies.
Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't by Ram Charan (Crown Business, $27.50). 100,000 copies.
The First Lady by Carl Weber (Dafina, $24). 90,000 copies.
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers by Lilian Jackson Braun (Putnam, $23.95).
The Hunters by W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam, $26.95).

| JANUARY 3 |
Red River by Lalita Tademy (Warner, $24.99). 115,000 copies.

| JANUARY 8 |
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown, $25.99). 100,000 copies.

| JANUARY 9 |
Plum Love by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $16.95). 1.25 million copies.
Exile by Richard North Patterson (Holt, $26). 500,000 copies.
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins, $27.95). 200,000 copies.
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber (Tor, $25.95). 175,000 copies.
Web of Evil by J.A. Jance (Touchstone, $25.95). 110,000 copies.
And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman (Crown, $24.95). 100,000 copies.
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone (Ecco, $25.95). 100,000 copies.
* On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke (Atlantic Monthly, $20.95). 60,000 copies.

| JANUARY 10 |
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison (Grove, $24). 50,000 copies.

| JANUARY 11 |
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown, $24.99). 100,000 copies.

| JANUARY 15 |
* Disney Bunnies: I Love You, My Bunnies by Laura Driscoll (Disney, $9.99). 175,000 copies.

| JANUARY 16 |
* You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore (Morrow, $21.95). 200,000 copies.
Bad Blood by Linda Fairstein (Scribner, $26). 120,000 copies.
The Suspect by John Lescroart (Dutton, $26.95).
Breakpoint by Richard A. Clarke (Putnam, $25.95).

| JANUARY 23 |
* Dog by Matthew Van Fleet, photos by Brian Stanton (S&S/Wiseman, $14). 400,000 copies.
What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals by Terry McAuliffe with Steve Kettmann (St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95). 200,000 copies.
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins, $25.95). 150,000 copies.
* Michael's Golden Rules by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan, illus. by Kadir Nelson (S&S/Wiseman, $16.99). 100,000 copies.
White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz (Putnam, $24.95).
* The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer (Random, $26.95).

| JANUARY 30 |
Hide by Lisa Gardner (Bantam, $25). 225,000 copies.
Deep Storm by Lincoln Child (Doubleday, $24.95). 125,000 copies.
Star Wars: Allegiance by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey, $25.95).

—with reporting by Raya Kuzyk

*= PWstarred review

*= Children's titles