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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. “Bones to Ashes”

Kathy Reichs (Scribner, $25.95)

4. “Dark Possession”

Christine Feehan (Berkley, $24.95)

5. “The Elves of Cintra”

Terry Brooks (Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.95)

6. “Tree of Smoke”

Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27)

7. “Play Dirty”

Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $26.95)

8. “Heartsick”

Chelsea Cain (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95)

9. The Quickie”

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

10. Songs Without Words”

Ann Packer (Knopf, $24.95)

Nonfiction

1. “Giving”

Bill Clinton (Knopf, $24.95)

2. “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light”

(Doubleday, $22.95)

3. “Lone Survivor”

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

4. “Dead Certain”

Robert Draper (Free Press, $28)

5. “Quiet Strength”

Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)

6. “Wonderful Tonight”

Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor (Harmony, $25.95)

7. “The World Without Us”

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

8. “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself”

Alan Alda (Random House, $24.95)

9. “It’s All About Him”

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

10. “Blonde Ambition”

Rita Crosby (Morrow, $23.99)

Paperback mass-market fiction

1. The Collectors”

David Baldacci (Grand Central, $9.99)

2. 74 Seaside Avenue”

Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)

3. Killer Dreams”

Iris Johansen (Bantam, $7.99)

4. Innocent in Death”

J.D. Robb (Berkley, $7.99)

5. Act of Treason”

Vince Flynn (Pocket, $9.99)

Paperback trade fiction

1. Water for Elephants”

Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)

2. The Kite Runner”

Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)

3. At First Sight”

Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $13.99)

4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”

Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)

5. The Emperor’s Children”

Claire Messud (Vintage, $14.95)

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 Omnivore’s Dilemma”

Michael Pollan (Penguin, $16)

5. “Three Cups of Tea”

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