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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “Double Cross”

James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99)

2. “The Choice”

Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99)

3. “Playing for Pizza”

John Grisham (Doubleday, $21.95)

4. “Stone Cold”

David Baldacci (Grand Central, $26.99)

5. Confessor”

Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.95)

6. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)

7. “World Without End”

Ken Follett (Dutton, $35)

8. Home to Holly Springs”

Jan Karon (Viking, $26.95)

9. “The Chase”

Clive Cussler (Putnam, $26.95)

10. “Book of the Dead”

Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)

Nonfiction

1. “An Inconvenient Book”

Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe (Threshold Editions, $26)

2. “I Am America (And So Can You!)”

Stephen Colbert (Grand Central, $26.99)

3. “Boom!”

Tom Brokaw (Random House, $28.95)

4. “Good Dog. Stay.”

Anna Quindlen (Random House, $14.95)

5. “Clapton”

Eric Clapton (Broadway Books, $26)

6. “Rescuing Sprite”

Mark R. Levin (Pocket Books, $22)

7. “Born Standing Up”

Steve Martin (Scribner, $25)

8. “The Age of Turbulence”

Alan Greenspan (Penguin Press, $35)

9. “Quiet Strength”

Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)

10. “Lone Survivor”

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

Paperback mass-market fiction

1. Next”

Michael Crichton (Harper/HarperCollins, $9.99)

2. Cross”

James Patterson (Grand Central, $9.99)

3. Wife for Hire”

Janet Evanovich (Harper, $7.99)

4. I Am Legend”

Richard Matheson (Tor/Tom Doherty, $7.99)

5. Brother Odd”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

Paperback trade fiction

1. The Pillars of the Earth”

Ken Follett (New American Library, $24.95/$20)

2. Love in the Time of Cholera”

Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage International, $14.95)

3. Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

4. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

5. Halo: Contact Harvest”

Joseph Staten (Tom Doherty Associates, $14.95)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15)

2. “The Innocent Man”

John Grisham (Delta/Dell, $16/$7.99)

3. “Into the Wild”

Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $12.95)

4. “Three Cups of Tea”

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

5. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)