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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

2. “The Historian”

Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95)

3. Polar Shift”

Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95)

4. “Thud!”

Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins, $24.95)

5. Point Blank”

Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95)

6. The Widow of the South”

Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95)

7. On Beauty”

Zadie Smith (Penguin Press, $25.95)

Nonfiction

1. “The World is Flat”

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

2. “1776”

David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $32)

3. “Freakonomics”

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

4. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)

5. “A Man Without A Country”

Kurt Vonnegut (Seven Stories, $23.95)

6. “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”

Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins, $25.95)

7. “New Rules”

Bill Maher (Rodale, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. Hour Game”

David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99)

2. “50 Harbor Street”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.50)

3. Night Tales: Night Shield, Night Moves”

Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)

4. “Payback”

Fern Michaels (Zebra, $6.99)

5. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

6. Firestorm”

Iris Johansen (Bantam, $7.99)

7. Survivor in Death”

J. D. Robb (Berkley, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “The Tipping Point”

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

2. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

3. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)

4. “Nickel and Dimed”

Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan/Owl/Holt, $13)

5. “Democracy Matters”

Cornel West (Penguin, $15)

6. “Chronicles”

Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $14)

7. “Pledged”

Alexandra Robbins (Hyperion, $13.95)