BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

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*--* 1 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket Books: $7.99) A Harvard scholar uncovers a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

2 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage: $12) An autistic teen seeks a killer.

3 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Broadway: $13.95) A college grad enters fashion publishing.

4 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Back Bay: $13.95) A murdered girl tells the story of those left behind.

5 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador: $15) A Greek family embraces the American dream.

6 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin: $14) A teenage girl is haunted by her mother’s death.

7 Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (St. Martin’s: $7.99) A new technology threatens the balance of international power.

8 Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket Books: $7.99) A president’s reelection rests on an object buried in the Arctic.

9 The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander M. Smith (Anchor: $11.95) Botswana’s favorite private eye.

10 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: $14) A writer returns to Kabul to rescue the son of a childhood friend.

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*--* 1 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House: $13.95) A professor keeps literature alive for her students.

2 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage: $14.95) How a serial killer haunted the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

3 Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $12.95) A code of conduct based on Toltec wisdom.

4 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (Workman: $18.95) Trotting the globe.

5 Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom (Broadway: $12.95) Learning life’s lessons from a dying former teacher.

6 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Scribner: $16) The senator and former first lady’s memoirs.

7 Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter (Teachpress: $15.95) Fiscal parenting.

8 Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas (Random House: $12.95) An Iranian girl grows up in Newport Beach.

9 Moneyball by Michael Lewis (Norton: $13.95) How Billy Beane transformed the Oakland A’s into a winning franchise.

10 Stiff by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton: $13.95) An informative and irreverent look at the afterlife of cadavers.

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