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Every week the Southern California Booksellers Association canvasses its member stores to find out what readers are buying. Here are the top fives from today's best-seller lists.
| Hardcover Fiction | Hardcover Non-fiction |
| The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis The Patriots Club, Christopher Reich No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy |
Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt 1776, David McCullough Blink, Malcolm Gladwell |
| Trade Paperback Fiction | Trade Paperback Nonfiction |
| The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger The Alchemist (10th Anniversary Ed.), Paulo Coelho The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler |
Bad Cat, Jim Edgar Sudoku Easy Presented by Will Shortz, Vol. 1, Will Shortz Sudoku Easy to Hard: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles, Will Shortz (Ed.) The Book of Sudoku: The Hot New Puzzle Craze, Michael Mepham 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz |