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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)

2. Lean Mean Thirteen”

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

3. “Bungalow 2”

Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27)

4. “Double Take”

Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95)

5. “Drop Dead Beautiful”

Jackie Collins (St. Martin’s, $24.95)

6. “The Navigator”

Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95)

7. Blaze”

Richard Bachman (Scribner, $25)

8. “The Double Agents”

W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam, $25.95)

9. “The Bourne Betrayal”

Eric Van Lustbader (Warner, $25.99)

10. “The 6th Target”

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

Nonfiction

1. “The Diana Chronicles”

Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50)

2. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

3. “The Assault on Reason”

Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95)

4. “Lone Survivor”

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

5. “The Reagan Diaries”

Ronald Reagan (HarperCollins, $35)

6. “A Long Way Gone”

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

7. “Outrage”

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

8. “Einstein”

Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)

9. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

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

10. “The Black Swan”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95)

Paperback fiction

1. Safe Harbor”

Christine Feehan (Jove, $7.99)

2. “Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

3. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

4. Twelve Sharp”

Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $7.99)

5. The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

Julia Quinn (Avon, $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. “Three Cups of Tea”

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

5. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)