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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. Lean Mean Thirteen”

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

2. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)

3. Blaze”

Richard Bachman (Scribner, $25)

4. “Double Take”

Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95)

5. “The Navigator”

Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95)

6. “The Good Guy”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)

7. “The Overlook”

Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $21.99)

8. “The Harlequin”

Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $25.95)

9. “On Chesil Beach”

Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese, $22)

10. “The 6th Target”

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99)

Nonfiction

1. “The Diana Chronicles”

Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50)

2. “The Reagan Diaries”

Ronald Reagan (HarperCollins, $35)

3. “The Assault on Reason”

Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95)

4. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

5. “Outrage”

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (HC/HarperCollins, $26.95)

6. “Lone Survivor”

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

7. “Einstein”

Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)

8. “A Long Way Gone”

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

9. “Presidential Courage”

Michael Beschloss (Simon & Schuster, $28)

10. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.95)

Paperback fiction

1. “Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

2. The Road”

Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)

3. Twelve Sharp”

Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $7.99)

4. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

5. Middlesex”

Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, $15)

6. Beach Road”

James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Warner Vision, $9.99)

7. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”

Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)

8. Angels Fall”

Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)

9. Lisey’s Story”

Stephen King (Pocket, $9.99)

10. The Husband”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)

2. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

3. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)

4. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)

5. “Three Cups of Tea”

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

6. “Wisdom of Our Fathers”

Tim Russert (Random House, $13.95)

7. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

8. “The Tipping Point”

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

9. “Mayflower”

Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin Books, $16)

10. “Fast Food Nation”

Eric Schlosser (Perennial/HarperCollins, $13.95)