Hardcover Fiction
1. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dial; $24) Four brainy roommates seek to break a code leading to ancient treasure.
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Doubleday; $24.95) Murder leads to clues in the works of Leonardo.
3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (Hyperion; $19.95) Maintenance man's life is explained by people he meets in heaven.
4. Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower VI), Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner; $30) Susannah Dean is transported to New York in 1999.
5. The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam; $23.95) Club discussion reveals how life imitates art.
6. A Good Year, Peter Mayle (Knopf; $24) Max Skinner adopts the ProvenÁal lifestyle.
7. True North, Jim Harrison (Grove/Atlantic; $24) Attempts to exorcise forefathers' sins fall short.
8. Memorial Day, Vince Flynn (Atria; $25.95) The latest entry in the Mitch Rapp series.
9. Blowout, Catherine Coulter (Putnam; $25.95) Savich and Sherlock cut their vacation short to find a Supreme Court Justice's murderer.
10. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Helen Fielding (Viking; $24.95) Bridget Jones type channels 007.
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Big Russ and Me: Father and Son - Lessons of Life, Timothy Russert (Miramax; $22.45)
2. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss (Gotham; $17.50)
3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris (Little Brown; $24.95). Essays cover author's family life.
4. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $24.95)
5. Father Joe, Tony Hendra (Random House; $24.95) Memoirs
6. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow (Penguin; $35) Biography of a lesser-known Founding Father.
7. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Cokie Roberts (Morrow; $24.95)
8. The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For?, Rick Warren (Zondervan; $19.99)
9. Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster; $28) The Bush White House's battle plan and how it grew.
10. The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich, David Bach (Broadway; $19.95)
Paperback Fiction
1. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin; $14) A teen tries to discover her mother's past.
2.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Vintage; $12) Autistic boy solves the pet murder he is accused of.
3. #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor; $11.95) Series starring private eye Precious Ramotswe.
4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones (Amistad; $13.95) Lines between masters and slaves blur.
5. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest; $14) Love survives past, present and future.
6. Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Harvest; $14) A boy and a tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat at sea.
7. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (Penguin; $16) Love or lack of it begets adultery in 19th century Russia.
8. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador; $15) Story of a Greek hermaphrodite.
9. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Back Bay; 13.95) Teen murder victim looks down on the living.
10. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead; $14) An account of Afghanistan's political turmoil.
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 Devil in the White City, Eric Larson (Vintage; $14.95) Murder shadows the Chicago World's Fair.
3. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer (Anchor; $14.95) A man murders family and blames religion.
4. The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Counter, Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale; $7.99)
5. Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Michael Moore (Regan Books; $13.95)
6. Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf, Rick Reilly (Broadway; $11.95)
7. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom (Broadway; $11.95) Lessons learned from a dying mentor.
8. Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (S&S; $16.95)
9. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz (Workman; $18.95) Guide to exotic places.
10. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach (Norton; $13.95)
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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 June 20.
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