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Best-selling books

The Spokesman-Review

Fiction

1. “Simple Genius”

David Balducci (Warner, $26.99)

2. The Children of Hurin”

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

3. “The Woods”

Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95)

4. “The Good Husband of Zebra Drive”

Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95)

5. “I Heard That Song Before”

Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)

6. Body Surfing”

Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.99)

7. “Nineteen Minutes”

Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26.95)

8. Back on Blossom Street”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $24.95)

9. “Fresh Disasters”

Stuart Woods (Putnam, $25.95)

10. “The River Knows”

Amanda Quick (Putnam, $24.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Einstein”

Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)

2. “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?”

Lee Iacocca (Scribner, $25)

3. “Paula Deen: It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ “

Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster, $25)

4. “A Long Way Gone”

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

5. “The Black Swan”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95)

6. “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right”

Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins, $25.95)

7. “How Doctors Think”

Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin, $26)

8. “Big Papi”

David Ortiz with Tony Massarotti (St. Martin’s, $24.95)

9. “Nixon and Kissinger”

Robert Dallek (HarperCollins, $32.50)

10. “If I Am Missing or Dead”

Janine Latus (Simon & Schuster, $25)

Paperback fiction

1. The Road”

Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)

2. Susannah’s Garden”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)

3. The Fifth Horseman”

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Warner, $14.99)

4. “Raintree: Inferno”

Linda Howard (Silhouette, $5.25)

5. Two Little Girls in Blue”

Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)

2. “The Measure of a Man”

Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95)

3. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

4. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)

5. “The Year of Magical Thinking”

Joan Didion (Vintage, $13.95)