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*--* 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A 1 75 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 3 15 (Dial: $24) Four Princeton roommates use clues from a 15th century manuscript to find a buried Roman treasure.

3 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 4 48 (Hyperion: $19.95) An amusement park maintenance man faces his life, death and afterlife in this three-part parable.

4 Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf: $24.95) A shady 2 6 Florida marine biologist thinks he’s offed his wife, but she’s only playing dead as she plots her revenge.

5 R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton (Putnam: $26.95) A 6 7 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.

6 Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Alfred A. Knopf: $26) A Turkish poet -- 1 returning from exile in Germany finds himself caught in a society torn between secular and religious forces.

7 Star by Pamela Anderson (Atria: $24) Star Wood Leigh 5 3 works by day at a salon and by night at a steak and oyster house, until her fresh face and tight T-shirt land her on the cover of a national magazine.

8 Dune: The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. -- 1 Anderson (Tor Books: $27.95) Humans and “thinking machines” battle it out in this prequel to “Dune.”

9 The Exile by Allan Folsom (Forge Books: $25.95) A cop on -- 1 a rogue LAPD squad thinks he has nabbed a feared hit man, only to find himself enmeshed in international intrigue.

10 White Hot by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster: $25.95) -- 1 Returning to Louisiana for her brother’s funeral, a woman quickly discovers that her father may have been involved in his death.

11 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Atria: $19.95) A Harvard 11 34 scholar uncovers a vendetta against the Roman Catholic Church by a secret society known as the Illuminati.

12 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam: 9 15 $23.95) Five women and a man plumb Austen’s novels, revealing their own foibles and reveries along the way.

13 Lost City by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam: 15 4 $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.

14 Body Double by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine: $24.95) A -- 1 medical examiner returns home to find a woman who looks exactly like her shot to death on her doorstep.

15 The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader (St. Martin’s: -- 5 $25.95) The ex-CIA hero of thrillers by the late Robert Ludlum returns to battle an assassin at a terrorism conference in Iceland.

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*--* 1 Unfit for Command by John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi 6 2 (Regnery: $27.95) Vietnam vets accuse presidential nominee John Kerry of misdeeds regarding his wartime service.

2 Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk by Maureen Dowd 1 3 (Putnam: $25.95) A decade of the New York Times op-ed columnist’s collected works, especially those on Bush pere and fils.

3 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 2 13 (Little, Brown: $24.95) Popular humorist recounts childhood experiences with his delightfully dysfunctional family.

4 Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (Gotham: $17.50) A 3 19 British novelist and journalist offers her zero-tolerance approach to bad punctuation, drawn from her pioneering BBC series.

5 My Life by Bill Clinton (Knopf: $35) The former 7 10 president’s memoirs, from his Arkansas childhood through the highs and lows of his two terms in the White House.

6 American Soldier by Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell 4 4 (ReganBooks: $27.95) The former commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command gives an inside look at the war on terror.

7 This Is Burning Man by Brian Doherty (Little, Brown: -- 1 $24.95) A look at the alternative world of self-expression that springs up in the Nevada desert every year.

8 Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans edited by Dave 8 2 Eggers et al. (Alfred A. Knopf: $16.95) A dose of humor compiled by the folks at the McSweeney’s literary empire.

9 The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan: 12 77 $19.99) How the “God ordained” principles of worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism bring fulfillment.

10 The Power of Intention by Wayne W. Dyer (Hay House: -- 19 $24.95) How to spark creativity and get the life you want by drawing on a field of energy that exists all around us.

11 How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson with -- 1 Neil Strauss (ReganBooks: $27.95) The adult movie queen tells how a sexual assault propelled her into a life of porn and drugs.

12 The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura 11 32 Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) The talk show host tells how to manage the “very simple creature” that is man.

13 Woman Power by Laura Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $22.95) 13 3 The talk show host says to reject feminist tenets and transform your husband, your marriage and your life in just minutes a day.

14 The Future Dictionary of America edited by Jonathan -- 1 Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss and Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s: $28) What the world might look like if the progressive cause is spread.

15 Hippie by Barry Miles (Sterling: $24.95) A look at the -- 2 years of 1965 through 1971, from antiwar protests to the psychedelic movement, rock stars to counterculture heroes.

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