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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “The 6th Target”

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

2. “Bad Luck and Trouble”

Lee Child (Delacorte, $26)

3. “Invisible Prey”

John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)

4. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”

Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, $26.95)

5. “Simple Genius”

David Balducci (Warner, $26.99)

6. The Children of Húrin”

J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, $26)

7. “Pearl Harbor”

Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen (Thomas Dunne, $25.95)

8. “Rant”

Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, $24.95)

9. “The Woods”

Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95)

10. “Nineteen Minutes”

Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26.95)

Nonfiction

1. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

2. “Einstein”

Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)

3. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

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

4. “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar”

Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (Abrams Image, $18.95)

5. “A Long Way Gone”

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

6. “Jesus of Nazareth”

Benedict XVI (Doubleday, $24.95)

7. “Presidential Courage”

Michael Beschloss (Simon & Schuster, $28)

8. “At the Center of the Storm”

George Tenet (HarperCollins, $30)

9. “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”

Lee Iacocca (Scribner, $25)

10. “Tales From Q School”

John Feinstein (Little, Brown, $26.99)

Paperback fiction

1. The Husband”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

2. “Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

3. The Road”

Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)

4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”

Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)

5. The 5th Horseman”

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Warner, $14.99)

6. Suite Française”

Irène Némirovsky (Vintage, $14.95)

7. Susannah’s Garden”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)

8. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

9. Cover of Night”

Linda Howard (Ballantine, $7.99)

10. Dead Watch”

John Sandford (Berkley, $9.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “The Final Move Beyond Iraq”

Mike Evans (Frontline, $14.99)

2. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)

3. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

4. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)

5. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)

6. “The Tipping Point”

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

7. “Stumbling on Happiness”

Daniel Gilbert (Vintage, $14.95)

8. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

9. “The Measure of a Man”

Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95)