Stephen King's The Green Mile, Part 3: Coffey's Hands takes the No. 1 position on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list

Business Wire, June 6, 1996

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 1996--Stephen King's The Green Mile, Part 3: Coffey's Hands takes the No. 1 position on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list while The Runaway Jury by John Grisham drops to No. 2 after holding the top spot for two consecutive weeks.

The top 10 Best-Selling Books across the USA last week:

1. The Green Mile, Part 3: CoffeyUs Hands by Stephen King; Signet,

$2.99 (No. 2 last week)

2. The Runaway Jury by John Grisham; Doubleday, $26.95 (No. 1

last week)

3. Bad as I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown; Delacorte

Press, $22.95 (No. 3 last week)

4. Say Cheese and Die - Again! by R.L. Stine; Scholastic, $3.99

(No. 4 last week)

5. How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan; Viking,

$23.95 (No. 7 last week)

6. Falling Up by Shel Silverstein; HarperCollins, $16.95 (No. 6

last week)

7. The Green Mile, Part 2: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King;

Signet, $2.99 (No. 5 last week)

8. The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams; HarperBusiness, $20

(No. 8 last week)

9. Oh, The Places YouUll Go by Dr. Seuss; Random House, $16

(No. 11 last week)

10. The Tenth Insight by James Redfield; Warner, $19.95 (No. 9

last week)

For the complete Best-Selling Books list, see Thursday's editions of USA TODAY. Each Thursday in the Life section, USA TODAY publishes a list of the top 50 selling books of the previous week based solely on confidential retail sales data from major chain and independent bookstores across the country. Included are more than one million volumes from approximately 3,000 large-inventory, diverse-content bookstores.

A list of the top 150 Best-Selling Books is posted on the USA TODAY web site every Wednesday evening. Point your browser http://usatoday.com/life/enter/books/leb.htm.>USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books shows readers what is selling across the whole range of books, not just what is selling by category. Hardcover, paperback, fiction and non-fiction are pooled together.

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