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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. The Quickie”

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

2. “High Noon”

Nora Roberts (Putnam, $26.95)

3. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)

4. Lean Mean Thirteen”

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

5. “Bungalow 2”

Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27)

6. “The Judas Strain”

James Rollins (Morrow, $25.95)

7. “Drop Dead Beautiful”

Jackie Collins (St. Martin’s, $24.95)

8. “The Bourne Betrayal”

Eric Van Lustbader (Warner, $25.99)

9. “Double Take”

Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95)

10. “Peony in Love”

Lisa See (Random House, $23.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Lone Survivor”

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

2. “Quiet Strength”

Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)

3. “The Diana Chronicles”

Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50)

4. “Happy Endings”

Jim Norton (Simon Spotlight, $23.95)

5. “A Long Way Gone”

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

6. “The Assault on Reason”

Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95)

7. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

8. “Einstein”

Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)

9. “Outrage”

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

10. “The World Without Us”

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

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. Twelve Sharp”

Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $7.99)

5. The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

Julia Quinn (Avon, $7.99)

6. Lisey’s Story”

Stephen King (Pocket, $9.99)

7. Middlesex”

Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, $15)

8. Country Brides”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)

9. The Road”

Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)

10. Safe Harbor”

Christine Feehan (Jove, $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. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

6. “The Tipping Point”

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

7. “Three Cups of Tea”

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

8. “The Devil in the White City”

Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)