Best Sellers
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The Wall Street Journal's best-seller list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books at more than 2,500 retailers:

Hardcover fiction

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

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

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

4. The Innocent. Harlan Coben. Dutton, $26.95

5. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Matthew Stover. Del Rey, $25.95

6. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon, $19.99

7. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Eoin Colfer. Hyperion Miramax Books, $16.95

8. No Place Like Home. Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster, $24.95

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

10. Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $19.99

11. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. James Patterson. Little, Brown, $16.99

12. A Stroke of Midnight. Laurell K. Hamilton. Ballantine Books, $23.95

13. Saturday. Ian McEwan. Doubleday, $25.95

14. Honeymoon. James Patterson, Howard Roughan. Little, Brown, $27.95

15. Superstition. Karen Robards. Putnam Adult, $24.95

Hardcover nonfiction

1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50

2. Winning. Jack Welch and Suzy Welch. HarperBusiness, $27.95

3. He's Just Not That Into You. Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $19.95

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

5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $25.95

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

7. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. T. Harv Eker. HarperBusiness, $19.95

8. Freakonomics. Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow, $25.95

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

10. Being Perfect. Anna Quindlen. Random House, $12.95

11. Your Best Life Now. Joel Osteen. Warner Faith, $19.99

12. Baby Laughs. Jenny McCarthy. Dutton Adult, $19.95

13. The 3-Hour Diet. Jorge Cruise. Harper Resource, $24.95

14. Body for Life for Women. Pam Peeke. Rodale Books, $26.95

15. Good to Great. Jim Collins. HarperBusiness, $27.50

USA Today's best-seller list combines fiction (F), nonfiction (NF), paperback (P) and hardcover (HC) books:

1. True Believer. Nicholas Sparks. Warner Books, $24.95 (F-HC)

2. The Taking. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $7.99 (F-P)

3. The Purpose-Driven Life. Rick Warren. Zondervan, $19.99, (NF-HC)

4. A Loving Scoundrel. Johanna Lindsey. Pocket Star, $7.99 (F-P)

5. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $14, (F-P)

6. The South Beach Diet. Arthur Agatston. St. Martin's Press, $7.99(NF-P)

7. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50, (NF-HC)

8. The Mermaid Chair. Sue Monk Kidd. Viking, $24.95, (F-HC)

9. Angels & Demons. Dan Brown. Pocket Star, $7.99, (F-P)

10. Kiss Me While I Sleep. Linda Howard. Ballantine, $7.99, (F-P)

11. He's Just Not That Into You. Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $19.99 (NF-HC)

12. Winning. Jack Welch and Suzy Welch. HarperBusiness, $27.95 (NF-H)

13.The Shop On Blossom Street. Debbie Macomber. Mira, $7.99, (F-P)

14. The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown. Doubleday, $24.95 (F-HC)

15. Just One Look. Harlan Coben. Signet, $7.99, (F-P)

16. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Matthew Stover. Del Rey, $25.95, (F-HC)

17. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams. Del Rey, $7.99, (F-P)

18. The Innocent. Harlan Coben. Dutton, $25.95 (F-HC)

19. Your Best Life Now. Joel Osteen. Warner Faith, $19.99, (NF-HC)

20. And One More Thing Before You Go . . . Maria Shriver. Free Press, $13.95, (NF-HC)

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