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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1.The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

2. London Bridges”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)

3.The Five People You Meet in

Heaven”

Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)

4. I Am Charlotte Simmons”

Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.95)

5. “Hour Game”

David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95)

Nonfiction

1. “America (The Book)”

Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)

2. “Learning to Sing”

Clay Aiken with Allison Glock (Random House, $21.95)

3. “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”

George Carlin (Hyperion, $23.95)

4. “His Excellency”

Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $26.95)

5. “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)”

Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $26.95)

Paperback fiction

1. Blue Dahlia”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

2. Skipping Christmas”

John Grisham (Dell, $6.99)

3. Odd Thomas”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

4. “Angels & Demons”

Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)

5. “The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”

Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)

2. “Friday Night Lights”

H. G. Bissinger (Da Capo, $15.95/$7.99)

3. “The 9/11 Commission Report”

(Norton, $10)

4. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”

Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)

5. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)