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This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	ALL TOO HUMAN, by George Stephanopoulos. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) The former adviser to President Clinton recalls his years in the White House.		1
2	THE GREATEST GENERATION, by Tom Brokaw. (Random House, $24.95.) The lives of men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II. First Chapter	2	15
3	MONICA'S STORY, by Andrew Morton. (St. Martin's, $24.95.) From her childhood in Beverly Hills to the scandal in Washington: a biography of Monica Lewinsky. First Chapter	1	2
4	TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Doubleday, $19.95.) A sportswriter tells of his weekly visits to his old college mentor, who was near death's door. First Chapter	3	75
5	PERFECT MURDER, PERFECT TOWN, by Lawrence Schiller. (HarperCollins, $26.) The death of JonBenet Ramsey and its effect on the city of Boulder, Colo.	4	4
6	*THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. (Riverhead, $22.95.) What Buddhist doctrines and common sense tell us about dealing with everyday problems.	8	10
7	REACHING TO HEAVEN, by James Van Praagh. (Dutton, $22.95.) A ''renowned medium'' discusses death, the spirit world and reincarnation.	5	3
8	BLIND MAN'S BLUFF, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew. (Public Affairs, $25.) American submarine espionage from the early cold war years to the present. First Chapter	7	17
9	TRAVELING MERCIES, by Anne Lamott. (Pantheon, $23.) A chronicle of the author's journey toward faith and spirituality. First Chapter	6	7
10	*BEAUTY FADES, DUMB IS FOREVER, by Judy Sheindlin. (Cliff Street/HarperCollins, $22.) Judge Judy examines the problems that face women today.	9	6
11	CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD: Book 1, by Neale Donald Walsch. (Putnam, $19.95.) The author addresses questions of good and evil, guilt and sin. First Chapter	11	116
12	*THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, by Simon Winchester. (HarperCollins, $22.) How a murderer helped compile the Oxford English Dictionary.	12	26
13	THE CENTURY, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster. (Doubleday, $60.) An account of the 20th century, complete with photographs and first-person narratives.	14	17
14	THE ENDURANCE, by Caroline Alexander. (Knopf, $29.95.) The story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition. First Chapter	10	15
15	ANGELA'S ASHES, by Frank McCourt. (Scribner, $25.) An Irish-American writer recalls his childhood amid the miseries of Limerick.		116
	Also Selling
16	FIRST PERSON PLURAL, by Cameron West. (Hyperion, $23.95.) A psychologist describes his struggles with dissociative identity (or multiple personality) disorder.
17	THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, by Brian Greene. (Norton, $27.95.) A presentation of the 10-dimensional string theory that mediates between quantum mechanics and general relativity. (+) First Chapter
18	ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley. (St. Martin's, $22.95.) A British critic's memoir about the descent into Alzheimer's disease of his wife of 42 years, the novelist, Iris Murdoch. First Chapter
19	CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD: Book 3, by Neale Donald Walsch. (Hampton Roads, $22.95.) More discussions of moral questions.
20	PLAYING FOR KEEPS, by David Halberstam. (Random House, $24.95.) The life and times of Michael Jordan.
21	DIRECT FROM DELL, by Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman. (HarperBusiness, $26.) The chairman of Dell Computer Corporation tells the history of the company.
22	BLACK HAWK DOWN: A Story of Modern War, by Mark Bowden. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) The battle between American forces and Somali street fighters in Mogadischu in 1993. First Chapter
23	OUR KIND OF PEOPLE: Inside America's Black Upper Class, by Lawrence Otis Graham. (HarperCollins, $25.) A look at African-American society.
24	TULIP, by Anna Pavord. (Bloomsbury, $35.) Not a gardening book, this is instead a biography of the tulip by an unabashedly smitten fan.
25	THE ORCHID THIEF, by Susan Orlean. (Random House, $25.) A look at a Florida plant dealer and the nature of obsession.
26	A WALK IN THE WOODS, by Bill Bryson. (Broadway, $25.) A journalist hikes the Appalachian Trail.
27	YEAR OF THE RAT, by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II. (Regnery, $24.95.) How Bill Clinton allegedly compromised United States security by accepting campaign funding from various segments of Communist China.
28	VULGAR FAVORS, by Maureen Orth. (Delacorte, $24.95.) The failed manhunt for Andrew Cunanan, the serial killer who murdered Gianni Versace in 1997.
29	CRAZY HORSE, by Larry McMurtry. (Viking, $19.95.) A short biography of the great Sioux warrior. First Chapter
30	THE YEAR 1000, by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger. (Little, Brown, $23.) What life was like at the turn of the first millennium.
31	THE DEATH OF OUTRAGE, by William J. Bennett. (Free Press, $20.) The former Secretary of Education takes a critical view of the Clinton Presidency. (+)
32	GOLDMAN SACHS: The Culture of Success, by Lisa Endlich. (Knopf, $27.50.) An insider's history of the investment bank.
33	CARELESS LOVE: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, by Peter Guralnick. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) From Army service in 1958 to his death in 1977: the conclusion of a biography of Elvis Presley.
34	WHY NOT ME? by Al Franken. (Delacorte, $23.95.) The comedian gives a satirical account of his Presidential campaign in the year 2000 and his Administration.
35	SHAKESPEARE: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom. (Riverhead, $35.) The literary scholar argues that Shakespearean characters like Hamlet and Falstaff helped create new kinds of consciousness. First Chapter

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending March 13, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available from The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books.

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