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

5 / JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $27.95)
How magicians helped defeat Napoleon in 1806.

6 / TRACE
Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to Richmond.

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

8 / R IS FOR RICOCHET
Sue Grafton (Putnam, $26.95)
Grafton's 18th Kinsey Millhone, Private Eye, novel.

9 / SNOW
Orhan Pamuk (Knopf, $26)
A political novel set in contemporary Turkey.

10 / THE WINDS OF CHANGE
Martha Grimes (Viking, $25.95)
Scotland Yard's Richard Jury in his 19th mystery.

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

2 / UNFIT FOR COMMAND
John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi (Regnery, $27.95)
Why John Kerry should not be president.

3 / BUSHWORLD
Maureen Dowd (Putnam, $25.95)
Collected columns from the New York Times.

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

5 / DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM
David Sedaris (Little Brown, $24.45)
Funny & moving family recollections from the NPR star.

6 / AMERICAN SOLDIER
General Tommy R. Franks (Regan Books, $27.95)
The autobiography of the former US general.

7 / MY LIFE
Bill Clinton (Knopf, $35)
The 42nd president in his own words.

8 / HOMEGROWN DEMOCRAT
Garrison Keillor (Viking, $19.95)
The NPR darling makes a case for liberalism.

9 / SHADOW DIVERS
Robert Kurson (Random House, $26.95)
Dangerous scuba in a sunken German U-boat.

10 / SKYWRITING
Jane Pauley (Random House, $25.95)
A memoir from the television journalist.

1 / THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12)
Autistic 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 KITE RUNNER
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
A father and son story in contemporary Afghanistan.

4 / THE NAMESAKE
Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner, $14)
A first-generation Indian family in America.

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

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

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

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)
Literature under the ayatollahs.

3 / THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
Murder, magic, & madness at the 1893 World's Fair.

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

5 / LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM
Al Franken (Plume, $14)
Comic expose of right-wing antics.

6 / ALMOST FRENCH
Sarah Turnbull (Gotham, $13)
A memoir of an Australian in Paris.

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

8 / 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
Patricia Schultz (Workman, $18.95)
Offbeat recommendations for the intrepid traveler.

9 / ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY
David Sedaris (Little Brown, $14.70)
The monologuist and memoirist in France.

10 / THE BIG HOUSE
George Howe Colt (Scribner, $14)
A reverent love letter to a family manse on Cape Cod.

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