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 Narrows, Michael Connelly (Little Brown; $25.95) Serial killer The Poet returns.

5. The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam; $23.95) Club discussion reveals how life imitates art.

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

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

8. Just One Look, Harlan Coben (Dutton; $25.95) Recently developed old photo brings the past into focus.

9. Memorial Day, Vince Flynn (Atria;$25.95) Terrorists plot destruction for D.C. Memorial Day celebration.

10. Islands, Anne Rivers Siddons (HarperCollins; $24.95) Clique of beautiful Southern people are not what they seem.

Hardcover Nonfiction

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

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

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

4. Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward (S&S; $28) The Bush White House's battle plan and how it grew.

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

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

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

8. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow (Penguin; $35) Biography of a lesser-known Founding Father.

9. Loud and Clear, Anna Quindlen ( Random House;$24.95) Collection of the author's Newsweek and New York Times columns.

10. Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life, John McCain and Mark Salter (Random House; $16.95).

Paperback Fiction

1. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Back Bay; 13.95) Teenage murder victim looks down on the living.

2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (Mariner; $12) Small town citizens seek to escape where and who they are.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The Kite Hunter, Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead; $14) Ex-patriate Afghanistani seeks redemption after betraying a childhood friend.

10. Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) More adventures of the only ladies' detective agency in Botswana.

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. Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton (Scribner; $16) Memoir.

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

6. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, Rosalind Wiseman (Three Rivers; $14.95)

7. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Elaine Pagels (Vintage;$13).

8. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz (Workman; $18.95) Guide to exotic places.

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

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

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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 May 9.