Hardcover
Fiction
1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Doubleday; $24.95) Murder leads to clues in the works of Leonardo.
2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (Hyperion; $19.95) Maintenance man's life is explained by people he meets in heaven.
3. Glorious Appearing, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale House; $24.99) Life as we know it comes to an end.
4. Nighttime Is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark (S&S; $25.95) Former nerd seeks redemption as mysterious serial killer.
5. The Last Juror, John Grisham (Doubleday; $27.95) A look at justice in a small Mississippi town.
6. Islands, Anne Rivers Siddons (HarperCollins; $24.95) Clique of beautiful Southern people are not what they seem.
7. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant (Random House; $21.95) A woman must choose between her passions: art or artist.
8. The Princes of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd (Doubleday; $27.95) First volume of an Emerald Isle-focused series.
9. Guardian of the Horizon, Elizabeth Peters (Morrow; $24.95) A visit to the city of Lost Oasis.
10. The Known World, Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HaperCollins; $24.95) Masters and property enslaved by standards of the day.
Hardcover
Nonfiction
1. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Richard Clarke (Free Press; $27).
2. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $24.95).
3. The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren (Zondervan; $19.99).
4. Trump: How to Get Rich, Donald Trump and Meredith McIver (Random House; $21.95).
5. Ten Minutes from Normal, Karen Hughes (Viking; $25.95) Inside the White House with the president's former adviser.
6. Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, John W. Dean (Little Brown; $25.95).
7. Caddy For Life, John Feinstein (Little Brown; $25.95) Biography of Tom Watson's caddy Bruce Edwards.
8. The Ultimate Weight Solution, Dr. Phillip C. McGraw (Free Press; $26)
9. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, Karen Armstrong (Knopf; $24) Struggles with leaving cloistered life and undiagnosed illness.
10. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Kevin Phillips (Viking; $25.95).
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 Greek hermaphrodite and how it happened.
4. #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) Series starring private eye Precious Ramotswe.
5. The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor/Doubleday; $11.95) Fourth installment in the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
6. The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl (Random House; $13.95) Murders mirror Dante's Inferno.
7. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvik (Ballantine; $13.95) Five female friends and three decades of life's travails.
8. The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich (Perennial; $13.95) Love, death and redemption after World War I.
9. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory (Scribner; $15) Henry VIII's court as seen by the ill-fated queen's sister.
10. The Queen's Fool, Philippa Gregory (Touchstone; $15) Jewish clairvoyant strives to survive the House of Tudor.
Paperback
Nonfiction
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi (Random House; $13.95) A skillful blend of memoir and literary criticism.
2. The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Counter, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $7.99).
3. The Devil in the White City, Eric Larson (Vintage; $14.95) Murder shadows the Chicago World's Fair.
4. The Red Hat Society, Sue Ellen Cooper (Warner; $12.95) New "bible" for women of a certain age.
5. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz (Workman; $18.95) Guide to out-of-the-way places.
6. Moneyball, Michael Lewis (Norton; $13.95) How to win at baseball on a tight budget.
7. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country, MoveOn.org (Eds.) (Inner Ocean; $10.95) A handbook for civic activism.
8. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (Owl; $13) Financial exploitation of the working class.
9. Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, Michael Perry (Perennial; $13.95) Small town volunteer fire and rescue work.
10. Touching the Void, Joe Simpson (Perennial, $12.95) Near death in the Peruvian Andes.
Based on reporting from independent booksellers of the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, Upper Midwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense for week ended April 11.
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