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*--* 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 1 67 Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide.

2 The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason 2 7 (Dial: $24) Four Princeton roommates use clues from a 15th century manuscript to find a buried Roman treasure.

3 Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s: $25.95) A 14 2 notorious gang is after New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum after she stumbles upon a convenience store robbery.

4 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam: 4 7 $23.95) Five women and a man plumb Austen’s novels, revealing their own foibles and reveries along the way.

5 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 3 40 (Hyperion: $19.95) An amusement park maintenance man faces his life, death and afterlife in this three-part parable.

6 The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda 10 9 Bruckheimer (Dutton: $24.95) Three sisters reunite in a Kentucky town for their mother’s 75th birthday.

7 The Taking by Dean Koontz (Bantam: $27) A novelist and 15 5 her ex-priest husband see wild animals cower from a luminous rain drenching their San Bernardino mountain home.

8 Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen 11 3 Fielding (Viking: $24.95) Olivia Joules, international spy, tries to nab an alluring man who may be a terrorist.

9 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Atria: $19.95) A Harvard 9 27 scholar uncovers a vendetta against the Roman Catholic Church by a secret society known as the Illuminati.

10 A Good Year by Peter Mayle (Alfred A. Knopf: $24) An 12 4 ex-financier makes a new life for himself after inheriting a wine-growing estate in Provence.

11 The Coma by Alex Garland (Riverhead: $19.95) After a -- 1 subway attack, a young man awakens to find his life is unfamiliar, dark and ominously unreal.

12 The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 7 3 (Donald M. Grant/Scribner: $30) A black civil rights activist’s body is hijacked by a pregnant white demon from a parallel world.

13 Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes (Miramax: $23.95) Botoxed, 5 13 peeled and tanned to kill, Park Avenue princesses search for an ATM (rich boyfriend) or a P.H. (potential husband).

14 Oblivion by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown: $25.95) 13 3 Eight short stories explore individual power and weakness against a backdrop of American malaise.

15 The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Putnam: -- 1 $25.95) From the ashes of her lover’s murder, a woman rises as a drug smuggler par excellence -- and a legend is born.

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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Nonfiction LAST WEEK WEEKS ON LIST

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*--* 1 My Life by Bill Clinton (Alfred A. Knopf: $35) The former 6 2 president’s memoirs, from his Arkansas childhood to the highs and lows of his two terms in the White House.

2 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 1 5 (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 11 British novelist and journalist offers her zero-tolerance approach to bad punctuation drawn from a pioneering BBC series.

4 Father Joe by Tony Hendra (Random House: $24.95) After an 8 4 adolescent tryst with a neighbor’s wife, Hendra develops a bond with a Benedictine monk who helps him through life’s struggles.

5 Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster: $28) A 4 11 behind-the-scenes look at how George W. Bush and his war council came to launch a preemptive attack on Iraq.

6 Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert (Miramax: $22.95) The NBC 2 7 newsman writes a paean to his dad, a World War II veteran who worked two jobs to raise his Irish Catholic family in Buffalo, N.Y.

7 The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach (Broadway Books: 5 12 $19.95) A common-sense guide to financial planning through automatic contributions to retirement plans and investment vehicles.

8 The Power of Intention by Wayne W. Dyer (Hay House: 13 14 $24.95) How to spark creativity and get the life you want by drawing on a field of energy that exists all around us.

9 The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan: 7 69 $19.99) How the “God ordained” principles of worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism bring fulfillment.

10 Imperial America by Gore Vidal (Nation Books: $18) A -- 3 collection of essays arguing against imperialism, the Bush tax cuts and the reach of the Justice Department.

11 Worse Than Watergate by John W. Dean (Little, Brown: 9 12 $22.95) Former White House counsel argues that President Bush has done more damage to the nation than President Nixon or Watergate.

12 The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura 10 26 Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) The talk show host tells how to manage the “very simple creature” that is man.

13 Moyers on America by Bill Moyers (New Press: $24.95) A -- 1 collection of essays taking on the broadcast journalist’s Texas childhood, American politics and more.

14 Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday: 15 2 $23.95) True tales from the unsettling and underground world frequented by the novelist of “Fight Club” and “Choke.”

15 Good to Great by Jim Collins (HarperCollins: $27.50) How -- 53 a great product, a healthy corporate culture and a disciplined workforce can propel a company to success.

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