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Best-selling books

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Fiction

1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)

2. “The Wheel of Darkness”

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Warner, $25.99)

3. “Dark Possession”

Christine Feehan (Berkley, $24.95)

4. “Bones to Ashes”

Kathy Reichs (Scribner, $25.95)

5. “The Elves of Cintra”

Terry Brooks (Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.95)

6. “Play Dirty”

Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $26.95)

7. The Quickie”

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

8. “Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade”

Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte, $25)

9. “Away”

Amy Bloom (Random House, $23.95)

10. Sweet Revenge”

Diane Mott Davidson (Morrow, $25.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Wonderful Tonight”

Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor (Harmony, $25.95)

2. “Quiet Strength”

Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)

3. “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide”

Duane Chapman with Laura Morton (Hyperion, $25.95)

4. “Lone Survivor”

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

5. “It’s All About Him”

Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson, $24.99)

6. “God Is Not Great”

Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)

7. “The World Without Us”

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

8. “A Long Way Gone”

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

9. “Ike”

Michael Korda (Harper, $34.95)

10. “Freakonomics”

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $27.95)

Paperback fiction

1. 74 Seaside Avenue”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)

2. “Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

3. The Collectors”

David Baldacci (Grand Central, $9.99)

4. Killer Dreams”

Iris Johansen (Bantam, $7.99)

5. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

6. Beyond Seduction”

Stephanie Laurens (Avon, $7.99)

7. Inferno”

Troy Denning (Ballantine, $7.99)

8. Innocent in Death”

J.D. Robb (Berkley, $7.99)

Paperback nonfiction

1. “Eat, Pray, Love”

Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15)

2. “90 Minutes in Heaven”

Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)

3. “The Glass Castle”

Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)

4. “The World is Flat”

Thomas L. Friedman (Picador, $16)

5. “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”

Michael Pollan (Penguin, $16)

6. “Night”

Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)

7. “Into the Wild”

Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $12.95)

8. “Three Cups of Tea”

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