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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.

*--* 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 19 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 2. You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson and Howard Roughan 2 (Little, Brown: $27.99) A nanny falls in love with the father of her charges; trouble follows. 3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 3 (Riverhead: $24.95) A sci-fi-loving nerd and his immigrant family are haunted by the past. 4. Dead Heat by Dick and Felix Francis (Putnam: $25.95) Someone 1 has poisoned chef Max Moreton’s elite clientele and bombed a catered luncheon. 5. Making Money by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins: $25.95) 1 Trickster Moist von Lipwig must discover who is stealing Discworld’s gold reserves. 6. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin: $26) Nathan 1 Zuckerman returns to post-9/11 New York City to find everything changed, his solitude challenged. 7. The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter (Simon & Schuster: 2 $26) Tragedy ensues when a retired Marine returns a Japanese soldier’s sword to his family. 8. Pontoon by Garrison Keillor (Viking: $25.95) The latest from 2 Lake Wobegon details the funeral preparations for Evelyn Peterson, recently deceased. 9. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 3 $27) The saga of an undercover CIA agent, beginning with the Tet offensive in Vietnam. 10. The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt (Bloomsbury: $24.95) A 2 Cambridge mathematician invites intrigue when he recruits a prodigy from Madras. *--*

*--* 1. The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (Penguin: $35) The 1 enigmatic former Fed chief explains and rates his economic decisions, good and bad. 2. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday: $27.95) The New 1 Yorker reporter and legal beagle details the inner workings and politics of the U.S. Supreme Court. 3. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) Life’s 40 secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 4. Giving by Bill Clinton (Knopf: $24.95) The former president 3 and now foundation head describes how giving our money and time can change the world. 5. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan: $28) How 1 free trade and privatization policies have wreaked economic havoc around the world. 6. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton: $24.95) 3 How the Warsaw Zoo director and his wife tried to shelter Polish Jews during World War II. 7. Power to the People by Laura Ingraham (Regnery: $27.95) The 2 conservative radio personality takes on political correctness and other charged issues. 8. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 21 (HarperCollins: $24.95) Learn how to tie knots, find true north and other essential skills. 9. If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Beaufort: $24.95) 2 O.J. Simpson’s account with commentary from victim Ron Goldman’s family. 10. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne: $24.95) 8 An eye-popping look at how our planet might fare if there were no people on it. *--*