Trade Paperback Fiction Bestseller List for June 18, 2001 from sales the week ending June 10 Online at www.bookweb.org Wednesday, June 13 Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, June 18 For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE or visit www.booksense.com   TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION Last Week/ Weeks on List 1. Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier, 0452282152, Plume, $12.00. A historical fiction built around Vermeer's household, and the relationship between the artist and a young servant woman. 1/21 2. The Red Tent - Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winner Anita Diamant, 0312195516, Picador, $14.95. A re-imagining of the biblical Dinah, daughter to Jacob and Leah, as well as the lives of all women during that time. The Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winner. 3/72 3. Bee Season Myla Goldberg, 0385498802, Vintage, $13.00. A coming-of-age novel about an ordinary girl discovering her extraordinary talent for spelling, while her family unravels around her. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 4/3 4. Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje, 0375724370, Vintage, $13.00. In this richly-imagined novel a human rights group sends a young forensic anthropologist to Sri Lanka to help uncover a series of murders. 5/6 5. Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding, 0141000198, Penguin, $12.95. The longtime British bestseller back on the list due to the new movie. 2/9 6. Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland, 014029628X, Penguin, $12.00. Eight vibrant stories that trace the history of a Vermeer painting through its various owners. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 6/34 7. The Feast of Love Charles Baxter, 037570910X, Vintage, $13.00. A modern Midsummer's Night Dream of a novel which manages to convey extraordinary love without pretense or sentimentality. A 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 8/5 8. Ahab's Wife Sena Jeter Naslund, 0688177859, Perennial, $15.00. Historical fiction that looks at the epic of Moby Dick from another perspective. A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 11/31 9. Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri, 039592720X, Mariner, $12.00. A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories set in both India and America. 12/33 10. Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiani, 0345438329, Ballantine, $12.95. The story of a woman at the center of a small, Southern town full of colorful characters. 15/2 11. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Helen Fielding, 0140298479, Penguin, $13.00. 7/15 12. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - 1st Week on List Tom Robbins, 055337933X, Bantam, $13.95. -/1 13. The Human Stain Philip Roth, 0375726349, Vintage, $14.00. 10/3 14. Plainsong Kent Haruf, 0375705856, Vintage, $13.00. -/31 15. Jim the Boy Tony Earley, 0316198951, Little Brown, $12.95. 9/5 The Book Sense Bestseller List is copyrighted and cannot be reprinted without permission from the American Booksellers Association. For information, please contact Sascha Alper, Book Sense Projects Manager, at: (914) 591-2665 ext. 1202, 828 South Broadway, Tarrytown NY. Reprint Guidelines.