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*--* 1 Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf: $24.95) A shady 2 3 Florida marine biologist thinks he’s offed his wife, but she’s only playing dead as she plots her revenge.

2 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 4 72 Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide.

3 The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason 3 12 (Dial: $24) Four Princeton roommates use clues from a 15th century manuscript to find a buried Roman treasure.

4 R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton (Putnam: $26.95) A 1 4 wealthy father is concerned when his daughter is released from prison only to fall into the arms of the man who put her there in the first place.

5 Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown: $24.95) 7 5 Janitor and sometime private eye Easy Rawlins stumbles onto a string of homicides in South Central L.A. in the wake of the 1965 Watts riot.

6 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam: 5 12 $23.95) Five women and a man plumb Austen’s novels, revealing their own foibles and reveries along the way.

7 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 6 45 (Hyperion: $19.95) An amusement park maintenance man faces his life, death and afterlife in this three-part parable.

8 I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl (Bloomsbury: $23.95) Roscoe 15 2 “Fatty” Arbuckle recounts how his acquittal on rape and murder charges doesn’t save his film career in this faux memoir.

9 Lost City by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam: -- 1 $26.95) Kurt Austin wants to know who is killing the harvesters of a life-extending enzyme found in the depths of the North Atlantic.

10 The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader (St. Martin’s: 14 4 $25.95) The ex-CIA hero of thrillers by the late Robert Ludlum returns to battle an assassin at a terrorism conference in Iceland.

11 Sam’s Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson (Little, 11 5 Brown: $24.95) A grieving widow finds a cache of letters tracing her grandmother’s complicated life and is reunited with a dying friend.

12 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Atria: $19.95) A Harvard 13 32 scholar uncovers a vendetta against the Roman Catholic Church by a secret society known as the Illuminati.

13 A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt (Simon & -- 1 Schuster: $22) A college instructor navigates life and love after moving back home to help a mother facing breast cancer.

14 Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster: 12 3 $24.95) A mobster hit man goes undercover for the feds, who want him to assassinate one of Hitler’s henchmen in Nazi Berlin.

15 Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes (Miramax: $23.95) Botoxed, 8 18 peeled and tanned to kill, Park Avenue princesses search for an ATM (rich boyfriend) or a P.H. (potential husband).

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*--* 1 My Life by Bill Clinton (Knopf: $35) The former 1 7 president’s memoirs, from his Arkansas childhood through the highs and lows of his two terms in the White House.

2 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 2 10 (Little, Brown: $24.95) Popular humorist recounts childhood experiences with his delightfully dysfunctional family.

3 Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (Gotham: $17.50) A 3 16 British novelist and journalist offers her zero-tolerance approach to bad punctuation, drawn from her pioneering BBC series.

4 Losing America by Robert C. Byrd (W.W. Norton: $23.95) 6 2 The West Virginia senator demands a rollback of what he calls the “slow unraveling of the people’s liberties” in President Bush’s war on terror.

5 Imperial Hubris by Anonymous (Brassey’s: $27.50) A senior -- 1 U.S. intelligence official says it’s not democracy and freedom that rile Islamists, but U.S. military, political and economic policy.

6 The Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (Random House: $26.95) 4 5 The story of two deep-sea divers and their seven-year odyssey to trace the origins of a German U-boat hulk found off New Jersey.

7 The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan: 7 74 $19.99) How the “God ordained” principles of worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism bring fulfillment.

8 House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger (Scribner: -- 7 $26) The courting of the Bush family network by the Saudi royal family and how it has affected U.S. government policy.

9 The Power of Intention by Wayne W. Dyer (Hay House: 15 18 $24.95) How to spark creativity and get the life you want by drawing on a field of energy that exists all around us.

10 Bush Must Go by Bill Press (Dutton: $21.95) Press -- 1 delineates 10 reasons why the president should not be reelected, criticizing his positions on issues including healthcare, the economy and foreign policy.

11 American Soldier by Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell -- 1 (ReganBooks: $27.95) The former commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command gives an inside look at the war on terror.

12 The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura -- 29 Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) The talk show host tells how to manage the “very simple creature” that is man.

13 Worse Than Watergate by John W. Dean (Little, Brown: 10 17 $22.95) Former White House counsel argues that President Bush has done more damage to the nation than President Nixon or Watergate.

14 Prophecy by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison (Dutton: -- 1 $23.95) The psychic predicts how societies, the economy, the environment and more will fare in the decades to come.

15 Good to Great by Jim Collins (HarperCollins: $27.50) How -- 54 a great product, a healthy corporate culture and a disciplined workforce can propel a company to success.

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