FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (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. (2) The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume; $12) Novel uses Vermeer's portrait as a starting point.         3. (8) Jim the Boy, Tony Earley (Back Bay-Little Brown; $12.95). Boy turns 10 in Aliceville, N.C., during the Great Depression.         4. (3) Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (Penguin USA; $12.95) Bridget confides her attempts and failures at improving her life.         5. (5) 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. (7) The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (Picador; $14) New view of Dinah, who appears briefly in the Book of Genesis.         7. (6) Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani (Ballantine Books; $12.95) Ave Maria Mulligan declares herself a spinster at 35.         8. (—) Clay's Quilt: A Novel, Silas D. House (Algonquin Books; $21.95) Young coal miner deals with his big family in his small town.         9. (10) Bee Season, Myla Goldberg (Doubleday; $22.95) Family life changes when one member's fortunes change.         10. (9) Lord of the Silent, Elizabeth Peters (William Morrow & Co.; $25) 13th of the Amelia Emerson Peabody mysteries.

NON-FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (1) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99) Subtitled “Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.”         2. (2) John Adams, David McCullough, (Simon & Schuster; $35) Biography of the second American president.         3. (4) 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.         4. (7) 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.         5. (3) Causing a Stir, Junior League (Junior League of Dayton; $22.95) Dayton Junior League cookbook.         6. (—) The Business Plan for the Body, Jim Karas (Three Rivers Press; $15) subtitled “Crunch the Numbers for Successful Weight Loss-Manage Your Metabolism by Eating the Right Way-Invest in the Only Workout You'll Ever Need.”         7. (—) Body for Life, Bill Phillips, Michael D'Orso (HarperCollins; $26) 12 weeks to mental and physical strength.         8. (—) The Marilyn Harris Cooking School Cookbook, Marilyn Harris and Shirley O. Corriher (Pelican Publishing Co.; $24.95).         9. (—) Life Strategies, Phillip C. McGraw (Hyperion; $11.95) subtitled “Doing What Works, Doing What Matters.”         10. (6) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95) Dealing with change at work and in life.

        About the list: Participants: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Books & Co., and the Open Book. Based on sales ending week of June 2 (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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