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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)

2. “Devil May Cry”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s, $19.95)

3. The Quickie”

James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99)

4. “Sandworms of Dune”

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.95)

5. “The Secret Servant”

Daniel Silva (Putnam, $25.95)

6. “Spook Country”

William Gibson (Putnam, $25.95)

7. “High Noon”

Nora Roberts (Putnam, $26.95)

8. “The Tin Roof Blowdown”

James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $26)

9. “Waking With Enemies”

Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton, $24.95)

10. Lean Mean Thirteen”

Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $27.95)

Nonfiction

1. “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide”

Duane Chapman with Laura Morton (Hyperion, $25.95)

2. “Quiet Strength”

Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)

3. “Lone Survivor”

Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown, $24.99)

4. “It’s All About Him”

Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson, $24.99)

5. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

6. “A Long Way Gone”

Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)

7. “The World Without Us”

Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.95)

8. “Legacy of Ashes”

Tim Weiner (Doubleday, $27.95)

9. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

(HarperCollins, $26.95)

10. “Merle’s Door”

Ted Kerasote (Harcourt, $25)

Paperback fiction

1. “Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

2. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

3. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”

Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)

4. Echo Park”

Michael Connelly (Grand Central, $7.99)

5. Almost Dead”

Lisa Jackson (Zebra, $7.99)

6. Ricochet”

Sandra Brown (Pocket, $9.99)

7. The Emperor’s Children”

Claire Messud (Vintage, $14.95)

8. Dockside”

Susan Wiggs (Mira, $7.99)

9. Touch of Darkness”

Christina Dodd (Signet, $7.99)

10. The MacGregor Brides”

Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15)

2. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

3. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)

4. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little Brown, $15.99)

5. “The World is Flat”

Thomas L. Friedman (Picador, $16)

6. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

7. “Three Cups of Tea”

Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin, $15)

8. “The Tipping Point”

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

9. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)

10. “Chosen by a Horse”

Susan Richards (Harcourt, $13)