THE BEST-SELLER LIST

(Paperback Nonfiction)

1. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell (Little Brown, $14.99) A memoir of racing to cook every recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."

2. My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex prud'homme (Anchor $15 and $7.99.) How Julia Child mastered the art of French cooking, a memoir.

3. Watching Julia by Tammy Masterson (Penguin, $13.99.) One woman's account of how she watched every program ever produced about Julia Child.

4. I'm Julia! by Alice Lands (Random House, $15.00.) A woman impersonates Julia Child for fun and profit.

5. Julia Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Wells Fargo Bank, $8.00) Facsimiles of mortgage deeds and leases to properties that used to be owned or lived in by Julia Child and her husband, Paul.

6. Julia, Wherefore Art Thou and Wherefore Not? by Esther Kranz (Big Brown, $9.00.) A collection of sonnets about Julia Child.

7. Julia et Jim by Rudy Zinn (Pacifica Radio Press, $14.00) A re-imagining of the famous French film originally directed by Francois Truffaut. In the reworked version, the menage a trois is transformed into a passe double and the character of Jules is replaced by Julia Child.

8. Dreams From My Julia by Barack Obama (Dell, $18.00) In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir (a sequel to the popular "Dreams from My Father"), the son of a black African father and a white American mother (and one who would later become President of the United States) talks about what it was like to grow up in places like Indonesia where Julia Child programming was not readily available on television.

9. Wt R U Kookn Dude? by Oswaldo (Apple Core Press, $4.00) A series of Julia Child-inspired text messages by one of the many one-name-only personalities famous simply for being famous.

10. Julia in the Wry by J.D. California (Harcourt Brace, $22.00). having lost round one of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the creator of Holden Caufield, the Swedish parodist tries to slip one past the nonagenarian author by thinly disguising the 50s prep school lost soul as Julia Child.