Fiction

1. (-) Lake Woebegon Summer 1956, Garrison Keillor (Penguin; $14) Trials of a 14 year old growing up in the fictionalized Minnesota town.

2. (-) Chasing the Dime, Michael Connelly (Little Brown & Co.; $25.95) Chemist's life is sidetracked when he begins to intercept calls for a prostitute.

3. (2) Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little Brown; $21.95) Murder victim looks in on family, friends and killer from heaven.

4. (1) Q is for Quarry, Sue Grafton (Putnam; $26.95) Reopening an old case stirs memories and incites the murderer to strike again.

5. (-) Blood Orchid, Stuart Woods (Putnam; $25.95) Property seized from drug dealers is up for auction with too many bodies attached.

6. (-) The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer (Knopf; $24) The victim of a diving accident is not the only one paralyzed.

7. (-) The Great Santini, Pat Conroy (Bantam; $7.99) Family life 1960's Marine style.

8. (-) Three Junes, Julia Glass (Pantheon Books; $25) The connections of three men, three summers and three locations spanning a decade.

9. (-) Little Friend, Donna Tartt (Knopf; $26) Twelve-year-old girl loses what remains of her innocence as she tries to solve the murder of her older brother.

10. (8) White Oleander, Janet Fitch (Back Bay Books; $13.95) Teenage girl must find her way past her imprisoned mother's reality to her own.

Nonfiction

1. (8) My Losing Season, Pat Conroy (Doubleday; $27.95) An encounter at a book signing with an ex-teammate motivates examination of guilt.

2. (-) Good Poems, Garrison Keillor (Viking Press; $25.95) Collection compiled from "The Writer's Almanac" radio program.

3. (1) Dayton Comes of Age, Claudia Watson (Montgomery County Historical Society; $25) A history of Dayton, Ohio.

4. (5) Never Say Never, Phyllis George (McGraw-Hill; $19.95) Self-help and personal growth.

5. (-) Ordinary Resurrections, Jonathan Kozol (Harper; $14) Subtitled "Children in the Years of Hope"

6. (-) What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, Richard L. Allington (Longman; $29) Subtitled "Designing Research -Based Programs"

7. (-) The Introvert Advantage, Marti Olsen Laney (Workman; $24.95) Subtitled "How to Thrive in an Extrovert World"

8. (-) I Opened the Gate Laughing, Mayumi Oda (Chronicle; $16.95) Subtitled "An Inner Journey" a woman's search for inner peace by returning to the Buddhist practice of her childhood.

9. (-) Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol (Harper; $14) Subtitled "The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation."

10. (-) Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol (Harper; $14) subtitled "Children in America's Schools"

Participants: Books & Co., Joseph-Beth Booksellers and Montgomery Books. Based on sales ending week of Oct. 27; (-) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week.