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



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