Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Doubleday, $29.95.
2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.
3. I, Alex Cross, by James Patterson. Little, Brown, $27.99.
*4. Sizzle, by Julie Garwood. Ballantine, $26. A film student who witnessed a crime is aided by a handsome FBI agent.
*5. Fired Up, by Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $25.95. A venture capitalist who believes he has inherited an ancestor's psychic powers searches for an elusive artifact.
*6. The Honor of Spies, by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Putnam, $26.95. An OSS agent seeks information from a German prisoner of war; the fifth book in the Honor Bound series.
*7. Deeper Than the Dead, by Tami Hoag. Dutton, $26.95. An FBI investigator and a teacher track a series of murders in California in 1985.
8. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99.
*9. Altar of Eden, by James Rollins. Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99. A Louisiana veterinarian discovers a wrecked fishing trawler filled with genetically altered animals.
10. Under the Dome, by Stephen King. Scribner, $35.
Nonfiction
1. Have A Little Faith, by Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $23.99.
2. Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin. Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.
3. What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99.
4. Superfreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow/HarperCollins, $29.99.
5. Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson. Viking, $26.95.
6. Open, by Andre Agassi. Knopf, $28.95.
7. True Compass, by Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve, $35.
8. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $27.99.
9. Arguing With Idiots, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions, $29.99.
10. Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking, $32.95.
* -- Indicates first appearance on the list.
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