1 / THE DA VINCI CODE
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
Biblical conspiracies, symbols, and secrets.

2 / THE RULE OF FOUR
Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (Dial, $24)
Intellectual suspense and medieval code cracking.

3 / THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
Life-affirming fable from Tuesdays with Morrie author.

4 / THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB
Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam, $23.95)
Contemporary comedy of manners set in California.

5 / THE FULL CUPBOARD OF LIFE
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $19.95)
More mystery at the No.  1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

6 / THE NARROWS
Michael Connelly (Little Brown, $25.95)
Harry Bosch confronts a terrifying killer.

7 / THE BIRTH OF VENUS
Sarah Dunant (Random House, $21.95)
Love and painting in 14th-century Florence.

8 / SONG OF SUSANNAH (THE DARK TOWER VI)
Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner, $30)
The penultimate book in King's saga.

9 / EVENTIDE
Kent Haruf (Knopf, $24.95)
Haruf's second foray in the prairie town of Holt, CO.

10 / JUST ONE LOOK
Harlan Coben, Dutton, ($25.95)
A photo causes a mother's world to unravel.

1 / EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
A handbook for the punctuation police.

2 / THE SOUTH BEACH DIET
Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale, $24.95)
Weight loss from Miami Beach.

3 / DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM
David Sedaris (Little Brown, $24.95)
The humorist's latest collection of family lore.

4 / BIG RUSS AND ME
Tim Russert (Miramax Books, $22.95)
Lessons in life from Russert's plainspoken father.

5 / PLAN OF ATTACK
Bob Woodward (Simon & Shuster, $28)
An insider's view of the run-up to the war in Iraq.

6 / FOUNDING MOTHERS
Cokie Roberts (Morrow, $24.95)
A history of the women behind the Founding Fathers.

7 / FATHER JOE
Tony Hendra (Random House, $24.95)
A comic tribute to a spiritual mentor.

8 / ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Ron Chernow (Penguin, $35)
A biography of the short-lived Founding Father.

9 / TRUTH & BEAUTY
Ann Patchett (HarperCollins, $23.95)
The novelist remembers her friend Lucy Grealy.

10 / THE SOUTH BEACH DIET COOKBOOK
Arthur Agatson, M.D. (Rodale, $25.95)
200 recipes for the South Beach Diet plan.

1 / THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14)
A motherless teenage girl in 1964 South Carolina.

2 / THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12)
An autistic teenager's bitterly funny view of the world.

3 / THE #1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY
Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $11.95)
The detective as folk hero in Botswana.

4 / THE LOVELY BONES
Alice Sebold (Back Bay, $13.95)
The story of a brutally murdered girl, narrated from heaven.

5 / LIFE OF PI
Yann Martel (Harvest, $14)
Magical realist tale of a boy and tiger adrift at sea.

6 / MIDDLESEX
Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, $15)
Kaleidoscopic narrative of three generations of Greek immigrants.

7 / THE KITE RUNNER
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
Fathers and sons in Afghanistan and the US.

8 / THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14)
Lovers caught in a quirky time-travel dilemma.

9 / THE KNOWN WORLD
Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95)
A slave's eye view of antebellum Virginia.

10 / THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
Carson McCullers (Mariner, $12)
A compassionate tale of mill town life in the 1930s.

1 / READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
Blend of memoir and literary criticism in Iran.

2 / THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
Eric Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
History of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

3 / THE SOUTH BEACH DIET GOOD FATS / GOOD CARBS COUNTER
Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale, $7.99)
A reference supplement to The South Beach Diet.

4 / 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
Patricia Schultz (Workman, $18.95)
Offbeat recommendations for the intrepid traveller.

5 / STUPID WHITE MEN
Michael Moore (Regan Books, $13.95)
The leftist provocateur skewers the GOP.

6 / BEYOND BELIEF
Elaine Pagels (Vintage, $13)
A popular history of the Gospels of Thomas and John.

7 / STIFF
Mary Roach (Norton, $13.95)
A social history of cadavers.

8 / TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $12.95)
A journalist learns about life from an old professor.

9 / MONEYBALL
Michael M. Lewis (Norton, $13.95)
How the 2002 Oakland A's won on a shoestring budget.

10 / UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN
Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95)
The shadowy world of fundamentalist Mormonism.

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