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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

2. The Hostage”

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

3. “Mary, Mary”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)

4. Death Dance”

Linda Fairstein (Scribner, $26)

5. “Every Breath You Take”

Judith McNaught (Ballantine, $25.95)

6. S is for Silence”

Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam, $26.95)

7. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell”

Lilian Jackson Braun (Putnam, $23.95)

8. At First Sight”

Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)

9. “Turning Angel”

Greg Iles (Scribner, $25.95)

10. The Last Templar”

Raymond Khoury (Dutton, $24.95)

Nonfiction

1. “For Laci”

Sharon Rocha (Crown, $25.95)

2. “Marley & Me”

John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95)

3. “The World is Flat”

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

4. “My Friend Leonard”

James Frey (Riverhead, $24.95)

5. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $19.95)

6. “The Year of Magical Thinking”

Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95)

7. “Freakonomics”

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

8. “Teacher Man”

Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26)

9. “A Million Little Pieces”

James Frey (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $22.95)

10. “Team of Rivals”

Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $35)

Paperback fiction

1. The Broker”

John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)

2. Memoirs of a Geisha”

Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95/$7.99)

3. Honeymoon”

James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Warner, $13.95)

4. “Alone”

Lisa Gardner (Bantam, $7.99)

5. “Carolina Isle”

Jude Deveraux (Pocket, $9.95)

6. Vendetta”

Fern Michaels (Zebra, $6.99)

7. “Double Tap”

Steve Martini (Jove, $7.99)

8. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

9. Red Lily”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

10. “Gilead”

Marilynne Robinson (Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $14)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

2. “A Million Little Pieces”

James Frey (Anchor, $14.95)

3. “Collapse”

Jared Diamond (Penguin, $17)

4. “The Tipping Point”

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

5. “Three Weeks with My Brother”

Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks (Warner, $13.95)

6. “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”

John Perkins (Plume, $15)

7. “In Cold Blood”

Truman Capote (Vintage, $14)

8. “Tuesdays with Morrie”

Mitch Albom (Broadway, $12.95; Anchor, $6.99)

9. “Animals in Translation”

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Harcourt, $15)

10. “The End of Faith”

Sam Harris (Norton, $13.95)