Stephen King's The Green Mile, Part 6: Coffey on the Mile holds the No. 1 position on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list

Business Wire, Sept 12, 1996

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1996--The Green Mile, Part 6: Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King holds the No. 1 position for the second consecutive week on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list.

Also, The Lost World by Michael Crichton made its debut at No. 3 while Jack and Jill by James Patterson made its debut at No. 7.

The top 10 Best-Selling Books across the USA last week: -0-

    1.   The Green Mile, Part 6: Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King;
         Signet, $3.99 (No. 1 last week)
    2.   Executive Orders by Tom Clancy; Putnam, $27.95
         (No. 2 last week)
    3.   The Lost World by Michael Crichton; Ballantine, $7.50
         (New this week)
    4.   The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams; HarperBusiness, $20
         (No. 4 last week)
    5.   Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray;
         HarperCollins, $23 (No. 10 last week)
    6.   The Green Mile, Part 5: Night Journey by Stephen King;
         Signet, $2.99 (No. 3 last week)
    7.   Jack and Jill by James Patterson; Little, Brown, $24.95
         (New this week)
    8.   Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson; Vintage, $12
         (No. 13 last week)
    9.   Morning, Noon and Night by Sidney Sheldon; Warner Vision,
         $7.50 (No. 5 last week)
    10.  The Zone by Barry Sears and Bill Lawren; ReaganBooks, $23
         (No. 9 last week)-0-

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 to 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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