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. The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith, (Pantheon; $19.95) Precious Ramotswe's client seeks her suitor's true intentions.
4. The Art of Mending, Elizabeth Berg (Random House; $24.95) Family reunion, secrets, implosion and redemption.
5. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant (Random House; $21.95) A woman must choose between her passions: art or artist.
6. Therapy, Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine; $26.95) Alex Delaware returns to solve a double homicide.
7. Nighttime Is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark (S&S; $25.95) Former nerd seeks redemption as mysterious serial killer.
8. Good Grief, Lolly Winston (Warner; $18) Young widow takes a quirky path to healing.
9. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult (Atria; $25) Young girl sues her parents for the right to her own body.
10. Reckless Abandon, Stuart Woods (Putnam; $25.95) Murderer in witness protection brings together series characters Holly Barker and Stone Barrington.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward (S&S; $28) The Bush White House's battle plan and how it grew.
2. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $24.95)
3. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss (Gotham; $17.50)
4. The South Beach Diet Cookbook, Arthur Agatston (Rodale; $24.95)
5. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Richard Clarke (Free Press; $27).
6. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Cokie Roberts (Morrow; $24.95)
7. The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For?, Rick Warren (Zondervan; $19.99)
8. Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, John W. Dean (Little Brown; $25.95)
9. Caddy for Life, John Feinstein (Little Brown; $25.95) Biography of Tom Watson's late caddy Bruce Edwards.
10. A Walk on the Beach, Joan Anderson (Broadway; $23.95) Women's friendship see them through losing and regaining their husbands.
Paperback Fiction
1. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (Mariner; $12) Small town citizens seek to escape where and who they are.
2. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin; $14) A teen tries to discover her mother's past.
3. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Back Bay; 13.95) Teenage murder victim looks down on the living.
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Perennial; $14) One hundred years of a town and the residents that survive there.
5. Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Harvest; $14) A boy and a tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat at sea.
6. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador; $15) A Greek hermaphrodite and how it happened.
7. The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger (Broadway; $13.95) Working for an overbearing boss.
8. #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) Series starring private eye Precious Ramotswe.
9. The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor/Doubleday; $11.95) Fourth installment in the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
10. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvik (Ballantine; $13.95) Five female friends and three decades of life's travails.
Paperback Nonfiction
1. The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Counter, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $7.99)
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi (Random House; $13.95) A skillful blend of memoir and literary criticism.
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. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country, MoveOn.org (Eds.) (Inner Ocean; $10.95) A handbook for civic activism.
6. Moneyball, Michael Lewis (Norton; $13.95) Major league baseball team attempts to build a winner with a small budget.
7. Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton (Scribner; $16) Memoir.
8. What to Expect When You're Expecting, Heidi E. Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway (Workman; $13.95)
9. Dry: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs (Picador; $14)
10. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz (Workman; $18.95) Guide to out-of-the-way places.
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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 April 25.
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