FICTION (This week/Last week)         1. (3) Best Friends, Martha Moody (Riverhead Books; $26.95) Author's first novel tracks friends through college and their subsequent lives.         2. (1) P is for Peril, Sue Grafton (Putnam Publishing Group; $26.95) Latest in the alphabetical sleuthing series is a prequel to more recent Kinsey Millhone stories.         3. (4) The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume; $12) Novel uses Vermeer's portrait as a starting point.         4.(2) Dance Upon the Air, Nora Roberts (Jove Publications; $7.99) Magic and real life converge in the first installment of the Three Sisters Island trilogy.         5. (—) Two Truths and a Lie, Katrina Kittle (Warner Books; $22.95) Life built on lies unravels as everyone's secrets are revealed.         6. (—) Circle of Three, Patricia Gaffney (Harper Mass Market Paperbacks; $7.50) Author depicts circle of female friendships.         7. (—) Common Life, Jan Karon (Viking Press; $24.95) Author fills in the blanks surrounding the marriage of Mitford's favorite couple.         8.(9) Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher (St. Martin's Mass Market Paper; $7.99) Multiple characters learn to live with losses as they find solace in unexpected places.         9.(—) The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara (Ballantine Books; $7.99) Novelization of the Battle of Gettysburg.         10. (10) On Secret Service, John Jakes (Signet; $7.99) Author returns to a Civil War setting to explore rivalries between the Union's Pinkerton's Detective Agency and the Confederacy's provocateurs.

NON-FICTION         1. (4) The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson (Multnomah; $9.99) Subtitled: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.         2. (6) Causing a Stir, Junior League (Junior League of Dayton; $22.95) Dayton Junior League cookbook.         3. (3) John Adams, David McCullough, (Simon & Schuster; $35) Biography of the second American president.         4. (7) In Harm's Way, Doug Stanton (Henry Holt & Company Inc.; $25) Subtitled: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors.         5. (—) The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw (Random House; $24.95) Collection chronicles the memories of WWII veterans.         6. (—) 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.         7. (—) An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw (Random House; $29.95) Collection of letters and photographs from readers who grew up and came of age during the Great Depression and WWII.         8. (—) A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Anna Quindlen (Random House; $12.95) Reflections on living a full life.         9. (5) Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam; $19.95) Dealing with change at work and in life.         10. (10) French Lessons, Peter Mayle (Knopf; $24) Subtitled: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew.

        About the list: Participants: Books & Co. and The Open Book. Based on sales ending week of June 16 (—) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.

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