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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “Cross”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99)

2. “Next”

Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95)

3. “For One More Day”

Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95)

4. Dear John”

Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.99)

5. Treasure of Khan”

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam, $27.95)

6. Brother Odd”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)

7. “Wild Fire”

Nelson DeMille (Warner, $26.99)

8. “Nature Girl”

Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $25.95)

9. “The Shape Shifter”

Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, $26.95)

10. “Lisey’s Story”

Stephen King (Scribner, $28)

Nonfiction

1. “The Innocent Man”

John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95)

2. “The Audacity of Hope”

Barack Obama (Crown, $25)

3. “Culture Warrior”

Bill O’Reilly (Broadway, $26)

4. “Marley & Me”

John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95)

5. “I Feel Bad About My Neck”

Nora Ephron (Knopf, $19.95)

6. “The God Delusion”

Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, $27)

7. “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid”

Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, $27)

8. “I Like You”

Amy Sedaris (Warner, $27.99)

9. “The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook”

Steve Doocy (Morrow, $23.95)

10. “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid”

Bill Bryson (Broadway, $25)

Paperback fiction

1. S is For Silence”

Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99)

2. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”

Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)

3. On the Run”

Iris Johansen (Bantam, $7.99)

4. Cell”

Stephen King (Pocket Star, $9.99)

5. “Drop Dead Gorgeous”

Linda Howard (Ballantine, $7.99)

6. The Tenth Circle”

Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $15)

7. Rebellion”

Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)

8. Valley of Silence”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

9. Forever Odd”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

10. Ready For Love”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.50)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Running With Scissors”

Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14)

2. “Flags of Our Fathers”

James Bradley with Ron Powers (Bantam, $14/$7.99)

3. “The Pursuit of Happyness”

Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe and Mim Eichler Rivas (Amistad/HarperCollins, $14.95)

4. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

5. “Dreams from My Father”

Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)

6. “Team of Rivals”

Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $19.95)

7. “Teacher Man”

Frank McCourt (Scribner, $15)

8. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)

9. “Night” (new translation)

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

10. “America (The Book)”

Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum (Warner, $15.99)