BESTSELLERS

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*--* 1 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket Books: $7.99) A Harvard scholar uncovers a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

2 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Broadway: $13.95) A college grad enters fashion publishing.

3 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Back Bay: $13.95) A murdered girl tells the story of those left behind.

4 The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander M. Smith (Anchor: $11.95) Botswana’s favorite private eye.

5 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador: $15) A Greek family embraces the American dream.

6 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: $14) A writer returns to Kabul to rescue the son of a childhood friend.

7 Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket Books: $7.99) A president’s reelection rests on an object buried in the Arctic.

8 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin: $14) A teenage girl is haunted by her mother’s death.

9 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (Bantam: $6.99) A deaf-mute becomes the town confidant.

10 Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harvest: $14) A boy shares a lifeboat with a tiger on a harrowing trip.

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*--* 1 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House: $13.95) A professor keeps literature alive for her students.

2 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage: $14.95) How a serial killer haunted the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

3 Rich Day, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter (Teachpress: $15.95) Fiscal parenting.

4 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Scribner: $16) The senator and former first lady’s memoirs.

5 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know by American Heritage (Houghton Mifflin: $4.95)

6 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (Workman: $18.95) Trotting the globe.

7 Neutra by Barbara Lamprecht (Taschen: $9.99) Essays on the artistry and architecture of Richard Neutra.

8 Dry by Augusten Burroughs (Picador: $14) A successful ad writer with an alcohol problem is forced into rehab.

9 Moneyball by Michael Lewis (Norton: $13.95) How Billy Beane transformed the Oakland A’s into a winning franchise.

10 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies (Perennial: $15.95) On China’s seafaring past.

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