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. Nighttime Is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark (S&S; $25.95) Former nerd seeks redemption as mysterious serial killer.

4. Glorious Appearing, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale House; $24.99) Life as we know it comes to an end.

5. The Art of Mending, Elizabeth Berg (Random House; $24.95) Family reunion, secrets, implosion and redemption.

6. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant (Random House; $21.95) A woman must choose between her passions: art or artist.

7. Reckless Abandon, Stuart Woods (Putnam; $25.95) Murderer in witness protection brings together series characters Holly Barker and Stone Barrington.

8. The Confusion, Neal Stephenson (Morrow; $27.95) Escape from the Inquisition, palace intrigue and the search for treasure.

9. The Princes of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd (Doubleday; $27.95) First volume of an Emerald Isle-focused series.

10. Divining Women, Kaye Gibbons (Putnam; $23.95) WWI ends as women fight the good fight on the home front.

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss (Gotham; $17.50)

2. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Richard Clarke (Free Press; $27).

3. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $24.95)

4. The South Beach Diet Cookbook, Arthur Agatston (Rodale; $24.95)

5. The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For?, Rick Warren (Zondervan; $19.99).

6. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Cokie Roberts (Morrow; $24.95)

7. Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, John W. Dean (Little Brown; $25.95).

8. Ten Minutes from Normal, Karen Hughes (Viking; $25.95) Inside the White House with the president's former adviser.

9. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, Karen Armstrong (Knopf; $24) Struggles with leaving cloistered life and undiagnosed illness.

10. Farewell Jackie, Edward Klein (Viking; $23.95)

Paperback Fiction

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

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

3. #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) Series starring private eye Precious Ramotswe.

4. The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor/Doubleday; $11.95) Fourth installment in the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

5. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador; $15) A Greek hermaphrodite and how it happened.

6. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvik (Ballantine; $13.95) Five female friends and three decades of life's travails.

7. The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger (Broadway; $13.95) Working for an overbearing boss.

8. The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich (Perennial; $13.95) Love, death and redemption after World War I.

9. The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl (Random House; $13.95) Murders mirror Dante's Inferno.

10. Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) Continuing investigations of #1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Paperback Nonfiction

1. The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Counter, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $7.99)

2. The Devil in the White City, Eric Larson (Vintage; $14.95) Murder shadows the Chicago World's Fair.

3. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi (Random House; $13.95) A skillful blend of memoir and literary criticism.

4. The Red Hat Society, Sue Ellen Cooper (Warner; $12.95) New "bible" for women of a certain age.

5. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country, MoveOn.org (Eds.) (Inner Ocean; $10.95) A handbook for civic activism.

6. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz (Workman; $18.95) Guide to out-of-the-way places.

7. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (Owl; $13) Financial exploitation of the working class.

8. Dry: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs (Picador; $14)

9. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom (Broadway; $12.95) Life lessons from a dying teacher.

10. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, Eric Schlosser (Mariner; $13)

• Based on reporting from independent booksellers of the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, Upper Midwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense for week ended April 18.