FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (2) Common Life, Jan Karon (Viking Press; $24.95) Author fills in the blanks surrounding the marriage of Mitford's favorite couple.         2. (10) Cold Paradise, Stuart Woods (Putnam Publishing Group; $24.95) Stone Barrington juggles his women while chasing a ghost, both his client's and his own.         3. (1) On The Street Where You Live, Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster; $26) Emily Graham flees the insanity of her life only to find herself in danger in her tranquil sanctuary.         4. (—) Fast Women, Jennifer Cruise (St. Martins Press; $24.95) A new job, new lust and murder mystery jump start a recovering divorcee.         5. (4) Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (Penguin USA; $12.95) Bridget confides her attempts and failures at improving her life.         6. (—) Last Refuge of Scoundrels: A Revolutionary Novel, Paul Lussier (Warner Books; $26.95) Historical novel based on the high jinks of our Founding Fathers.         7.(5) The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume; $12) Novel uses Vermeer's portrait as a starting point.         8. (7) Death in Holy Orders, P.D. James (Knopf; $25) Dalgliesh visits a haunt from his youth and finds the most horrific case of his career.         9. (9) Carolina Moon, Nora Roberts (Jove Publications; $7.99) Heroine faces the death of a childhood friend while rebuilding her life in a town that betrayed her.         10. (—) Welcome to Temptation, Jennifer Crusie (St. Martins Press; $6.99) Twisted sister wedding videographers have their intended art film slide to porn while solving rural Ohio murder mysteries.

NON-FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (—) I Hope You Dance, Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers (Rutledge Hill Press; $13.99) Gift book based on the Country Music Association song of the year.         2. (1) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99) Subtitled “Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.”         3. (4) The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen; $12.95) Subtitled “A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.”         4. (—) Ordinary Resurrections, Jonathan Kozol (Harperperrenial Library; $14) subtitled “Children in the Years of Hope.”         5. (—) In Harm's Way, Martin Bell (Penguin UK; $15.95) Survival journalism covering the war in Bosnia.         6. (—) She Flies Without Wings, Mary D. Midkiff (Delacorte Press; $23.95) subtitled “How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul.”         7. (10) Life Strategies, Phillip C. McGraw (Hyperion; $11.95) subtitled “Doing What Works, Doing What Matters.”         8. (6) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95) Dealing with change at work and in life.         9. (7) A Different Drummer, Michael K. Deaver (Harpercollins; $25) Subtitled “My Thirty Years with Ronald Regan.”         10. (5) Mothers and Other Heroes, Laura Pulfer (Orange Frazer Press; $14.95) Local author honors mothers and the other heroes in our lives.

        About the list: Participants: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Books & Co., Montgomery Book Co., The Open Book. Based on book sales ending week of May 5 (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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