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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “Simple Genius”

David Balducci (Warner, $26.99)

2. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union”

Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, $26.95)

3. The Children of Hurin”

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

4. “The Woods”

Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95)

5. “Rant”

Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, $24.95)

6. “All Together Dead”

Charlaine Harris (Ace, $24.95)

7. “The Good Husband of Zebra Drive”

Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95)

8. “I Heard That Song Before”

Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)

9. Body Surfing”

Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.99)

10. “Nineteen Minutes”

Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26.95)

Nonfiction

1. “At the Center of the Storm”

George Tenet (HarperCollins, $30)

2. “Einstein”

Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)

3. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

4. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

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

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

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

6. “A Long Way Gone”

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

7. “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?”

Lee Iacocca (Scribner, $25)

8. “Silent Partner”

Dina Matos McGreevey (Hyperion, $23.95)

9. “The Black Swan”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95)

10. “Kabul Beauty School”

Deborah Rodriguez with Kristin Ohlson (Random House, $24.95)

Paperback fiction

1. The Road”

Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)

2. The Husband”

Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)

3. “Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

4. The Fifth Horseman”

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Warner, $14.99)

5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”

Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)

6. Suite Française”

Irène Némirovsky (Vintage, $14.95)

7. Susannah’s Garden”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)

8. Two Little Girls in Blue”

Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket, $7.99)

9. Dead Watch”

John Sandford (Berkley, $9.99)

10. Cover of Night”

Linda Howard (Ballantine, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)

2. “Blink”

Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)

3. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

4. “The Measure of a Man”

Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95)

5. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)

6. “Not On Our Watch”

Don Cheadle and Jon Prendergast (Hyperion, $14.95)

7. “The Year of Magical Thinking”

Joan Didion (Vintage, $13.95)

8. “Mayflower”

Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin Books, $16)

9. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

10. “Three Cups of Tea”

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