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Best-selling books

The Spokesman-Review

Fiction

1.The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

2.The Five People You Meet in

Heaven”

Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)

3. State of Fear”

Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95)

4. A Salty Piece of Land”

Jimmy Buffett (Little, Brown, $27.95)

5. London Bridges”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)

6. “Black Wind”

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam, $27.95)

7. “Night Fall”

Nelson DeMille (Warner, $26.95)

8. Life Expectancy”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)

9. “Whiteout”

Ken Follett (Dutton, $26.95)

10. “I Am Charlotte Simmons”

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

Nonfiction

1. “America (The Book)”

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

2. “Chronicles: Volume One”

Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)

3. “Faithful”

Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King (Scribner, $26)

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

George Carlin (Hyperion, $23.95)

5. “His Excellency”

Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $26.95)

6. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”

Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)

7. “My Life”

Bill Clinton (Knopf, $35)

8. “Favre”

Brett and Bonita Favre (N.F.L. Publishing/RuggedLand, $29.95)

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

Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $26.95)

10. “The Games Do Count”

Brian Kilmeade (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. “The Last Juror”

John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)

2. Angels & Demons”

Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)

3. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

4. “Reunion”

Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)

5. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell”

David Michaels (Berkley, $7.99)

6. Blue Dahlia”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

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

Mark Haddon (Vintage Contemporaries, $12)

8. Trojan Odyssey”

Clive Cussler (Berkley, $7.99)

9. “Skipping Christmas”

John Grisham (Dell, $6.99)

10. Deception Point”

Dan Brown (Pocket Books, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”

Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)

2. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”

Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)

3. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

4. “Dreams From My Father”

Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)

5. “Kiss Me, Kill Me”

Ann Rule (Pocket Star, $7.99)

6. “Flyboys”

James Bradley (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)

7. “Tuesdays With Morrie”

Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)

8. “Holidays on Ice”

David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $8.95)

9. “Friday Night Lights”

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

10. “Franklin and Winston”

Jon Meacham (Random House, $16.95)