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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. True Believer”

Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)

2. The Mermaid Chair”

Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)

3.The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

4.Revenge of the Sith”

Matthew Stover (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95)

5. “No Place Like Home”

Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)

6. “In the Company of Cheerful Ladies”

Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $19.95)

7. Saturday”

Ian McEwan (Doubleday, $26)

8. A Stroke of Midnight”

Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine, $23.95)

9. “Ya-Yas in Bloom”

Rebecca Wells (HarperCollins, $24.95)

Nonfiction

1. “My Life So Far”

Jane Fonda (Random House, $26.95)

2. “The World is Flat”

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

3. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)

4. “Freakonomics”

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

5. “On Bull——”

Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)

6. “Three Nights in August”

Buzz Bissinger (Houghton Mifflin, $25)

7. “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”

Michael Savage (Nelson Current/Thomas Nelson, $25.99)

8. “One Soldier’s Story”

Bob Dole (HarperCollins, $25.95)

9. “Garlic and Sapphires”

Ruth Reichl (Penguin, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

2. Nighttime is My Time”

Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books, $7.99)

3. “Full Bloom”

Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes (St. Martin’s, $7.99)

4. R is For Ricochet”

Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99)

5. Therapy”

Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $7.99)

6. “Angels & Demons”

Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)

7. “Blind Alley”

Iris Johansen (Bantam, $7.99)

8. The Paid Companion”

Amanda Quick (Jove, $7.99)

9. “The Last Juror”

John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “The Tipping Point”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95)

2. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”

Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)

3. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

4. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)

5. “The Bookseller of Kabul”

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

6. “Me Talk Pretty One Day”

David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)

7. “Leap of Faith”

Queen Noor (Miramax/Hyperion, $13.95)

8. “Under the Banner of Heaven”

Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95.)

9. “Tuesdays With Morrie”

Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)