HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (Hyperion; $19.95) Maintenance man's life is explained to him by five souls awaiting his arrival in heaven.

2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Doubleday; $24.95) Murder leads to clues in the works of Leonardo.

3. Shepherds Abiding, Jan Karon. (Viking, $24.95) Father Tim tries to spruce up a Nativity scene that has been neglected.

4. Blow Fly, Patricia Cornwell (Putnam; $26.95) Kay Scarpetta tries to unravel a conspiracy involving a killer she put away earlier.

5. Bleachers, John Grisham (Doubleday; $19.95) Impending death of coach leads former players and the town to reconcile the past.

6. Split Second, David Baldacci (Warner; $23.95) Secret Service agents are entwined by the similarity of their failures.

7. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage; $25) Love and passion subverted by uncontrolled time travel.

8. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin; $24) Immigrant experience.

9. The Wedding, Nicholas Sparks (Warner Books; $23.95) Noah and Allie Calhoun's son-in-law tries to rekindle the romance of his marriage.

10. Blacklist, Sara Paretsky (Putnam; $24.95) V.I. Warshawski is embroiled in a modern mystery that has McCarthy era overtones.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $24.95) A cardiologist's weight-loss plan.

2. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken (Dutton; $24.95) A left-leaning look at politics and the media.

3. Dude Where Is My Country?, Michael Moore (Warner; $24.95) Author opines on "Dubya" and his ilk.

4. The Ultimate Weight Solution, Phillip C. McGraw (Free Press; $26).

5. The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren (Zondervan; $19.99) Finding the meaning of life through God.

6. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley (Little Brown; $25.95) Aviators shot down, captured and executed on Chichi Jima.

7. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose (Random House; $24.95) Analysis of president's first year.

8. The World According to Mr. Rogers, Fred Rogers (Hyperion; $16.95).

9. Who's Looking Out for You? Bill O'Reilly (Broadway; $24.95) Pundit pontificates on whom you should trust.

10. Every Second Counts, Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins (Broadway; $24.95) Memoir.

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin; $14) A teen tries to discover her mother's past.

2. Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Harvest; $14) A boy and a tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat at sea.

3. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador; $15) A 41-year-old Greek hermaphrodite and how it happened.

4. #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) First in mystery series starring private eye Precious Ramotswe.

5. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton (Simon & Schuster; $14) Zulu pastor and his son in 1940s South Africa.

6. Three Junes, Julia Glass (Anchor; $14) Follows a Scottish family over course of three Junes.

7. The Piano Tuner, Daniel Philippe Mason (Vintage; $14) A journey to repair a rare piano finds adventure in 1886 Burma.

8. Blessings, Anna Quindlen (Random House; $13.95) Abandoned baby connects woman and hired help.

9. East of Eden, John Steinbeck (Penguin; $16) Feuding brothers.

10. The Last Girls, Lee Smith (Ballantine; $14.95) Former classmates re-create their adventure on the Mississippi River after the death of their ringleader.

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes (Broadway; $15) Memoir of life rediscovered in Italy.

2. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. (Quill; $13.95) Low-carb way.

3. Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine; $15.95) Bio of the horse.

4. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom (Broadway; $11.95) The author tells the story of his visits to his old college mentor, who was near death.

5. Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, Michael Perry (Perennial; $13.95) Small town volunteer fire and rescue work.

6. The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 14, Robert Seigel (Three Rivers; $17.95) Every Onion article from November 2001-October 2002.

7. A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties, Tom Brokaw (Random House; $12.95).

8. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (Owl; $13) Becoming a member of the working poor.

9. Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook, (Workman;$13.95) Debbie Stoller.

10. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2004 (Yankee Publishing/Houghton Mifflin; $5.95)

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Based on reporting from independent booksellers of the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, Upper Midwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense for week ended Oct. 26.