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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. S is for Silence”

Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam, $26.95)

2. “Mary, Mary”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)

3. At First Sight”

Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)

4. Predator”

Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)

5. Light from Heaven”

Jan Karon (Viking, $26.95)

6. “Amazing Peace”

Maya Angelou (Random House, $9.95)

7. “The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

8. Forever Odd”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)

9. The Lighthouse”

P. D. James (Knopf, $25.95)

10. “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt”

Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Teacher Man”

Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26)

2. “Our Endangered Values”

Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, $25)

3. “Team of Rivals”

Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $35)

4. “The World is Flat”

Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50)

5. “Marley & Me”

John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95)

6. “1776”

David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $32)

7. “The Year of Magical Thinking”

Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95)

8. “Freakonomics”

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95)

9. “The Truth (With Jokes)”

Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95)

10. “My Friend Leonard”

James Frey (Riverhead, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. Red Lily”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

2. The Broker”

John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)

3. Memoirs of a Geisha”

Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95/$7.99)

4. “State of Fear”

Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99)

5. “Going Home”

Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)

6. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

7. Wicked”

Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $15)

8. “Life Expectancy”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

9. “Whiteout”

Ken Follett (Signet, $7.99)

10. Manhunt”

Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.50)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “A Million Little Pieces”

James Frey (Anchor, $14.95)

2. “Worth More Dead”

Ann Rule (Pocket Books, $7.99)

3. “In Cold Blood”

Truman Capote (Vintage, $14)

4. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

5. “The Tipping Point”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)

6. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion”

Perry Moore (HarperSanFrancisco, $19.95)

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

George Carlin (Hyperion, $13.95)

8. “Jarhead”

Anthony Swofford (Pocket, $7.99)

9. “Cash: The Autobiography”

Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr (HarperCollins, $7.99)

10. “Guns, Germs, and Steele”

Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)