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*--* 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 1 57 Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide.

2 Just One Look by Harlan Coben (Dutton: $25.95) A suburban -- 1 housewife hooks up with a mobster to find her missing husband, who may have been kidnapped by a martial-arts killer.

3 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 2 32 (Hyperion: $19.95) An amusement park maintenance man faces his life, death and afterlife in this three-part parable.

4 Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes (Miramax: $23.95) Botoxed, 4 5 peeled and tanned-to-kill, Park Avenue princesses search for an ATM (rich boyfriend) or a P.H. (potential husband).

5 The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith 5 2 (Pantheon: $19.95) Our favorite Botswana detective is hired by a wealthy woman to divine the true intentions of four suitors.

6 The Known World by Edward P. Jones 8 3 (Amistad/HarperCollins: $24.95) A black slave owner’s plantation is the setting for a tale of love and betrayal in antebellum Virginia.

7 Nighttime Is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & 7 4 Schuster: $25.95) On the eve of their 20-year high school reunion, a serial killer plots revenge against those who once humiliated him.

8 The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd (Doubleday: -- 8 $27.95) The tale of the Emerald Isle’s beginnings as Christianity comes to the land of druids, chieftains and warriors.

9 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Atria: $17.95) A Harvard 6 19 scholar uncovers a vendetta against the Roman Catholic Church by a secret society known as the Illuminati.

10 Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine: $26.95) Alex 3 2 Delaware discovers that the slaying of a couple found dead in a Mustang convertible is tied to a celebrity psychologist.

11 The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda 14 3 Bruckheimer (E.P. Dutton: $24.95) Three sisters reunite in a Kentucky town for their grandmother’s 75th birthday.

12 Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Books: 11 6 $21.95) A marketing whiz bares her soul to the stranger next to her on a plane before finding out he’s the company’s elusive CEO.

13 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin: -- 1 $24.95) In postwar Barcelona, the son of a bookstore owner tries to unearth the story of a long-dead novelist during Franco’s reign.

14 The Narrows by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $25.95) -- 1 Harry Bosch struggles against man and nature to capture the killer of an FBI profiler. (Reviewed by Dick Lochte on Page 5.)

15 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam: -- 1 $23.95) Five women and a man plumb the novels of Jane Austen, revealing their own private foibles and reveries along the way.

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*--* 1 Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster: $28) A 1 3 behind-the-scenes look at how George W. Bush and his war council came to launch a preemptive attack on Iraq.

2 Worse Than Watergate by John W. Dean (Little, Brown: 5 5 $22.95) Former White House counsel details how President Bush has damaged the nation more than President Nixon or Watergate.

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

4 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Penguin: $35) A -- 1 comprehensive look at the first U.S. Treasury secretary, whose legacy in politics, statecraft and economics is greater than that of many presidents.

5 Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke (Free Press: 2 7 $27) The former counter-terrorism advisor questions the Bush administration’s response to threats before Sept. 11 and its focus on Iraq since.

6 The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura 13 18 Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) The talk show host tells how to manage the “very simple creature” that is man.

7 Trump: How to Get Rich by Donald J. Trump with Meredith 4 6 McIver (Random House: $21.95) The billionaire real estate mogul turned television star riffs on how to succeed in business.

8 The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan: 9 60 $19.99) How the “God-ordained” principles of worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism bring fulfillment.

9 Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer (Alfred A. Knopf: $22.95) A 14 2 compendium of writings from the peripatetic Iyer, with dispatches from Bali, Easter Island and Oman and thoughts on the meaning of exile.

10 Ten Minutes From Normal by Karen Hughes (Viking Press: 6 5 $25.95) Longtime Bush counselor tells about the 2000 campaign and balancing the needs of family, faith, work and politics.

11 Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts (William Morrow: -- 1 $24.95) A look at the early American wives, mothers and sisters and their influence on the men who gave birth to a nation.

12 The Power of Intention by Wayne W. Dyer (Hay House: 7 9 $24.95) How to spark creativity and get the life you want by drawing upon a field of energy that exists all around us.

13 A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley (Knopf: $22) A memoir -- 1 of the horses and the people who surround them on the racing circuit from the horse-owning novelist.

14 The Exception to the Rulers by Amy Goodman (Hyperion: -- 1 $21.95) A radio journalist criticizes deceptions by the Bush administration, war profiteering in Iraq and corrupt media monopolies.

15 Play Baseball the Ripken Way by Cal Ripken Jr. with Larry -- 1 Burke (Random House: $24.95) An illustrated guide to the fundamentals of baseball from one of the game’s greats.

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