Best sellers
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This week's Booksense best sellers (based on sales from independent bookstores across America):

Hardcover fiction

1. The Mermaid Chair. Sue Monk Kidd. Viking, $24.95

2. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series. Alexander McCall Smith. Random House, $19.95

3. Saturday. Ian McEwan. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26

4. True Believer. Nicholas Sparks. Warner Books, $24.95

5. Ya-Yas in Bloom. Rebecca Wells. HarperCollins, $24.95

6. The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown. Doubleday, $24.95

7. Gilead. Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23

8. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Jonathan Safran Foer. Houghton Mifflin Company, $24.95

9. Never Let Me Go. Kazuo Ishiguro. Alfred A. Knopf, $24

10. With No One as Witness. Elizabeth George. HarperCollins, $26.95

Hardcover nonfiction

1. The World Is Flat. Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50

2. Blink. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $25.95

3. My Life So Far. Jane Fonda. Random House, $26.95

4. And One More Thing Before You Go . . . Maria Shriver. Free Press, $13.95

5. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. Anne Lamott. Penguin Group, $24.95

6. On Bulls---. Harry G. Frankfurt. Princeton University, $9.95

7. The Purpose-Driven Life. Rick Warren. Zondervan, $19.99

8. Garlic and Sapphires. Ruth Reichl. Penguin Group, $24.95

9. Winning. Jack Welch. HarperBusiness, $27.95

10. Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner. HarperCollins, $25.95

Paperback fiction

1. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14

2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon. Vintage, $12

3. The Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd. Penguin, $14

4. The Shadow of the Wind. Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Penguin, $14

5. The Time Traveler's Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. Harcourt, $14

Paperback nonfiction

1. Bad Cat. Jim Edgar. Workman, $9.95

2. The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95

3. The Devil in the White City. Erik Larson. Vintage, $14.95

4. Reading Lolita in Tehran. Azar Nafisi. Random House, $13.95

5. Truth & Beauty. Ann Patchett. HarperCollins, $13.95

Mass market

1. Angels & Demons. Dan Brown. Pocket Star, $7.99

2. R Is for Ricochet. Sue Grafton. Berkley, $7.99

3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams. Random House, $7.99

4. Therapy. Jonathan Kellerman. Random House, $7.99

5. The South Beach Diet. Arthur Agatston. St. Martin's Press, $7.99

Children's fiction

1. The Opal Deception. Eoin Colfer. Hyperion Miramax Books, $16.95

2. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Ann Brashares. Delacorte, $8.95

3. Girls in Pants. Ann Brashares. Delacorte, $8.95

4. Because of Winn-Dixie. Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick Press, $5.95

5. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. Ann Brashares. Delacorte, $8.95

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