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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. The Broker”

John Grisham (Doubleday, $27.95)

2.The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

3.The Five People You Meet in

Heaven”Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)

4. “Conviction”

Richard North Patterson (Random House, $25.95)

5. State of Fear”

Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95)

6. “By Order of the President”

W. E. B. Griffin (Putnam, $26.95)

7. “Chainfire”

Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.95)

8. “The Last Kingdom”

Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins, $25.95)

9. Labyrinth of Evil”

James Luceno (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95)

10. Unexpected Blessings”

Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin’s, $24.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)

2. “Collapse”

Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95)

3. “Witness”

Amber Frey (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $25.95)

4. “God’s Politics” Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95)

5. “America (The Book)”

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

6. “Animals in Translation”

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Scribner, $25)

7. “102 Minutes”

Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn (Times Books/Holt, $26)

8. “Winning the Future”

Newt Gingrich (Regnery, $27.95)

9. “Chronicles: Volume One”

Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)

10. “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”

John Perkins (Berrett-Koehler, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. “The Last Juror”

John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)

2. “Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son”

Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. (Bantam, $7.99)

3. “3rd Degree”

James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Warner, $7.99)

4. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

5. Ransom”

Danielle Steel (Dell, $7.99)

6. Visions in Death”

J. D. Robb (Berkley, $7.99)

7. Love Overboard”

Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.50)

8. Wait Until Midnight”

Amanda Quick (Jove, $7.99)

9. Angels & Demons”

Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)

10. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”

Mark Haddon (Vintage Contemporaries, $12)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Dreams From My Father”

Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)

2. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”

Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)

3. “The Tipping Point”

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

4. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

Jared Diamond (Norton, $14.95)

5. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

6. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”

Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)

7. “Tuesdays With Morrie”

Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)

8. “A Child Called ‘It’ “

Dave Pelzer (Health Communications, $9.95)

9. “The Privilege of Youth”

Dave Pelzer (Plume, $12)

10. “The Bookseller of Kabul”

Asne Seierstad (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $12.95)