N.Y. TIMES HARDCOVER BEST-SELLERS.(BOOKS)

FICTION

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, by J.K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $17.95.) A British boy finds trouble when he returns to a witchcraft school. 225 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, by J.K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $19.95.) A British boy's life at a school for witchcraft is menaced when an infamous murderer escapes from prison. 111 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, by J.K. Rowling. (Levine/Scholastic, $16.95.) A British boy finds his fortune attending a school of witchcraft. 350 TIMELINE, by Michael Crichton. (Knopf, $26.95.) Using the latest computer technology, a group of historians travels back to 14th-century feudal France. …