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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “Mary, Mary”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)

2. “The Da Vinci Code”

Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)

3. S is for Silence”

Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam, $26.95)

4. At First Sight”

Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)

5. “Amazing Peace”

Maya Angelou (Random House, $9.95)

6. Predator”

Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)

7. Forever Odd”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)

8. “The Camel Club”

David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95)

9. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt”

Anne Rice (Knopf, $25.95)

10. The Lighthouse”

P. D. James (Knopf, $25.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Team of Rivals”

Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $35)

2. “Teacher Man”

Frank McCourt (Scribner, $26)

3. “Marley & Me”

John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95)

4. “Our Endangered Values”

Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, $25)

5. “1776”

David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $32)

6. “The World is Flat”

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

7. “The Year of Magical Thinking”

Joan Didion (Knopf, $23.95)

8. “Freakonomics”

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

9. “The Truth (With Jokes)”

Al Franken (Dutton, $25.95)

10. “The Education of a Coach”

David Halberstam (Hyperion, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. Memoirs of a Geisha”

Arthur Golden (Vintage, $14.95/$7.99)

2. The Broker”

John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)

3. Red Lily”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

4. Wicked”

Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $15)

5. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)

6. “Going Home”

Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)

7. “State of Fear”

Michael Crichton (Avon, $7.99)

8. “Angels & Demons”

Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)

9. Manhunt”

Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.50)

10. “Prep”

Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $13.95)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “A Million Little Pieces”

James Frey (Anchor, $14.95)

2. “The Tipping Point”

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

3. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

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

George Carlin (Hyperion, $13.95)

5. “Worth More Dead”

Ann Rule (Pocket Books, $7.99)

6. “Cash: The Autobiography”

Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr (HarperCollins, $7.99)

7. “The Know-It-All”

A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, $14)

8. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)

9. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion”

Perry Moore (HarperSanFrancisco, $19.95)

10. “Jarhead”

Anthony Swofford (Pocket, $7.99)