Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Doubleday, $29.95.
*2. A Touch of Dead, by Charlaine Harris. The complete Sookie Stackhouse stories.
3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.
*4. The Professional, by Robert B. Parker. Putnam, $26.95. Rich women are turning up dead, and the Boston P.I. Spenser investigates.
5. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99.
*6. Evidence, by Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28. The Los Angeles psychologist-detective Alex Delaware helps solve the grisly murder of an architect and his companion.
*7. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $26. A re-creation of the life of the author's grandmother, a mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch wife and mother of two who grew up in the Southwest in the early 20th century.
8. An Echo in the Bone, by Diana Gabaldon. Delacorte, $30.
9. Rough Country, by John Sandford. Putnam, $26.95.
10. Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger. Scribner, $26.99.
Nonfiction
1. Have A Little Faith, by Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $23.99.
2. Arguing with Idiots, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions, $29.99.
3. True Compass, by Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve, $35.
4. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer. Doubleday, $27.95.
5. The Murder of King Tut, by James Patterson and Martin Dugard.
6. The Time of My Life, by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. Atria, $26.
7. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99.
8. The Greatest Show on Earth, by Richard Dawkins. Free Press, $30.
*9. The National Parks, by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Knopf, $50. Companion to the PBS series.
10. Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Knopf, $27.95.
* — Indicates first appearance on the list.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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