FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (—) Imperfect Souls, Lisa Boucher (AmErica House Book Publishers; $24.95) Teen mother loses custody of twin boys, cleans up her act and finds her way back to her children.         2. (9) The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume; $12) Novel uses Vermeer's portrait as a starting point.         3. (6) Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (Penguin USA; $12.95) Bridget confides her attempts and failures at improving her life.         4. (—) Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler (Knopf; $25) A widow has a late midlife crisis and embarks on a search for her lost self.         5. (1) Chosen Prey, John Sandford (Putnam; $26.95). Minneapolis police investigator Lucas Davenport faces an educated, sleazy and cunning serial killer in the 13th entry in Mr. Sandford's best-selling thriller series.         6. (—) Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani (Ballantine Books; $12.95) Ave Maria Mulligan declares herself a spinster at 35.         7. (3) The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (Picador; $14) New view of Dinah, who appears briefly in the Book of Genesis.         8. (—) Jim the Boy, Tony Earley (Back Bay-Little Brown; $12.95). Boy turns 10 in Aliceville, N.C., during the Great Depression.         9. (—) Lord of the Silent, Elizabeth Peters (William Morrow & Co.; $25) 13th of the Amelia Emerson Peabody mysteries.         10. (—) Bee Season, Myla Goldberg (Doubleday; $22.95) Family life changes when one member's fortunes change.

NON-FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (2) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99) Subtitled “Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.”         2. (-) John Adams, David McCullough, (Simon & Schuster; $35) Biography of the second American president.         3. (7) Causing A Stir, Junior League (Junior League of Dayton; $22.95) Dayton Junior League cookbook.         4. (1) My Grandfather's Blessing: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging, Rachel Naomi Remen (Riverhead Press; $24.95) Remen finds how her grandfather's holiness and her parents academia can converge and complement each other.         5. (—) What's Worth Knowing, edited by Wendy Lustbader (J.P. Tarcher; $22.95) 104 seniors speak their life truths.         6. (—) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95) Dealing with change at work and in life.         7. (5) 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.         8. (—) The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen; $12.95) Subtitled “A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.”         9. (6) Mothers and Other Heroes, Laura Pulfer (Orange Frazer Press; $14.95) Enquirer columnist honors mothers and the other heroes in our lives.         10. (3) Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, Rachel Naomi Remen (Riverhead Books; $12.50) Telling stories to pass wisdom and heal lives.

        About the list: Participants: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Books & Co., Montgomery Book Co., and the Open Book. Based on sales ending week of May 26 (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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