1 / The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
Biblical conspiracies, symbols, and secrets.

2 / Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $24.95)
Another tale from the master of satirical crime fiction.

3 / The Rule of Four
Ian Caldwell (Dustin Thomason, Dial, $24)
Intellectual suspense and medieval code cracking.

4 / R Is for Ricochet
Sue Grafton (Putnam, $26.95)
Grafton's 18th Kinsey Millhone, private eye, novel.

5 / The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
Life affirming fable from Tuesdays with Morrie author.

6 / The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam, $23.95)
Contemporary comedy of manners set in California.

7 / Sam's Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson (Little Brown, $24.95)
A love story from the master of thriller.

8 / Ten Big Ones
Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $25.95)
Stephanie Plum, girl bounty hunter, is at it again.

9 / Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman (Doubleday, $19.95)
Twelve connected stories in a Cape Cod farmhouse.

10 / The Full Cupboard of Life
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $19.95)
More mystery at the No.  1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

1 / Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
A handbook for the punctuation police.

2 / Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris (Little Brown, $24.95)
Funny and moving family recollections from the NPR star.

3 / My Life
Bill Clinton (Knopf, $35)
The 42nd president in his own words.

4 / The South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale, $24.95)
Weight loss from Miami Beach.

5 / Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson (Random House, $26.95)
Dangerous scuba in a sunken German U-boat.

6 / Imperial Hubris
Anonymous (Brassey's, $27.50)
An intelligence operative's analysis of the war on terror.

7 / American Soldier
General Tommy R. Franks (Regan Books, $27.95)
The autobiography of the former US general.

8 / Obliviously On He Sails
Calvin Trillin (Random House, $12.95)
Couplets, quatrains, and songs of Bush-Cheney satire.

9 / Homegrown Democrat
Garrison Keillor (Viking, $19.95)
The NPR darling makes a case for liberalism.

10 / Father Joe
Tony Hendra (Random House, $24.95)
How a kind monk befriended a restless young man.

1 / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12)
Austistic teenager's bitterly funny view of the world.

2 / The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14)
A motherless teenage girl in 1964 South Carolina.

3 / The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $11.95)
The detective as folk hero in Botswana.

4 / The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14)
Lovers caught in a quirky time-travel dilemma.

5 / The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
Afghan culture and politics entwined in a father and son story.

6 / The Known World
Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95)
A slave's-eye view of antebellum Virginia.

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

8 / Life of Pi
Yann Martel (Harvest, $14)
Magical realist tale of a boy and a tiger adrift at sea.

9 / The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold (Back Bay, $13.95)
The story of a brutally murdered girl, narrated from heaven.

10 / The Wedding
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $12.95)
The sequel to Sparks's best-selling The Notebook.

1 / The 9/11 Commission Report
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks [Staff] (Norton, $10)
The findings of the bipartisan 9/11 commission.

2 / Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
Beauty, imagination, and literature under the ­ayatollahs.

3 / Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95)
The shadowy world of fundamentalist Mormonism.

4 / The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
Murder, magic, and madness at the 1893 World's Fair.

5 / Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Al Franken (Plume, $14)
Comic expose of right-wing antics.

6 / Dude, Where's My Country?
Michael Moore (Warner, $14.95)
The leftist provocateur skewers the GOP.

7 / Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris (Little Brown, $14.95)
The monologuist and memoirist in France.

8 / The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Counter
Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale, $7.99)
A reference supplement to The South Beach Diet.

9 / 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz (Workman, $18.95)
Offbeat recommendations for the intrepid traveler.

10 / Stiff
Mary Roach, Norton ($13.95)
A social history of cadavers.

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