Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List for August 6, 2001 from sales the week ending July 29 Online at www.bookweb.org Wednesday, August 1 Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, August 6 For the Book Sense store nearest you, call 1-888-BOOKSENSE or visit www.booksense.com   HARDCOVER FICTION Last Week/ Weeks on List 1. The Fourth Hand John Irving, 0375506276, Random House, $26.95. The latest novel by the author of The World According to Garp begins with a TV journalist getting his hand eaten by a lion -- and gets even wilder. 1/3 2. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas James Patterson, 0316969443, Little Brown, $22.95. A dramatic departure for Edgar Award-winning author of the Alex Cross mystery series. 2/2 3. Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler, 0375412530, Knopf, $25.00. Anne Tyler's latest revolves around a woman who, at 53, decides that she's living the wrong life. 4/11 4. A Traitor to Memory Elizabeth George, 0553801279, Bantam, $26.95. The 11th in the series starring the Scotland yard detective Thomas Lynley. 3/4 5. Blue Diary - 1st Week on List; A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick Alice Hoffman, 0399148027, Putnam, $24.95. A seemingly golden couple's happiness is destroyed when a past murder is revealed. -/2 6. Cane River Lalita Tademy, 0446530522, Warner, $24.95. A fictionalized account of the lives of four of Tademy's African-American woman ancestors, from slavery to the pre-Civil Rights South. 7/4 7. How to Be Good Nick Hornby, 1573221937, Riverhead, $24.95. London doctor Katie Carr is on the edge of leaving her husband when he undergoes a surprising change. 6/3 8. The Wind Done Gone Alice Randall, 061810450X, Houghton Mifflin, $22.00. The hotly debated parody of Gone with the Wind. 11/6 9. Tell No One - A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick Harlan Coben, 0385335555, Delacorte, $22.95. A man searches desperately to discover what really happened when his wife was murdered eight years before in this Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick. 5/4 10. P is for Peril Sue Grafton, 0399147195, Putnam, $26.95. Number 16 in Sue Grafton's ever-popular alphabetical Kinsey Millhone series. 8/7 11. Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver, 0060199652, HarperCollins, $26.00. 14/79 12. Rise to Rebellion Jeff Shaara, 034542753X, Ballantine, $26.95. 12/3 13. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon, 0679450041, Random House, $26.95. 13/ 14. Seven Up Janet Evanovich, 0312265840, St. Martin's, $24.95. 10/5 15. Bel Canto - 1st Week on List; A Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick Ann Patchett, 0060188731, HarperCollins, $25.00. -/1   ON THE RISE   18. Miss Julia Takes Over Ann B. Ross, 0670910260, Viking, $24.95. A sequel to the Top Ten 'Book Sense 76' Pick Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind.   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.