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USA TODAY'S BESTSELLING BOOKS
1."Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" by Robert C. Atkins (Avon) (NF-P) 
2."The Jester" by James Patterson with Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) (F-H) 
3."The King of Torts" by John Grisham (Doubleday) (F-H) 
4."Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King (Pocket Books) (F-P) 
5."Body of Lies" by Iris Johansen (Bantam Books) (F-P) 
6."Dating Game" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press) (H-F) 
7."Portrait in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley) (F-P) 
8."Atkins for Life" by Robert C. Atkins (St. Martin's) (NF-H) 
9."The Summons" by John Grisham (Dell) (F-P) 
10."Atonement" by Ian McEwan (Anchor) (F-P) 


WALL STREET JOURNAL FICTION **
1."The King of Torts" by John Grisham (Doubleday)
2."The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
3."Someone to Watch Over Me" by Judith McNaught (Atria)
4."The Confessor" by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
5."Crossroads of Twilight" by Robert Jordan (Tor)
6."The Last Detective" by Robert Crais (Doubleday)
7."The Cat Who Brought Down the House" by Lilian Jackson Braun (Putnam)
8."Prey" by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins)
9."Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson (Putnam)
10."The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl (Random House)
WALL STREET JOURNAL NONFICTION/GENERAL **
1."Atkins for Life" by Robert C. Atkins (St. Martin's Press)
2."The Savage Nation" by Michael Savage (WND Books)
3."The Purpose-Driven Life" by Rick Warren (Zondervan)
4."Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore (Reganbooks)
5."Good to Great" by Jim Collins (HarperBusiness)
6."What Should I Do With My Life?" by Po Bronson (Random House)
7."The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson (Crown)
8."The Laws of Money, the Lessons of Life: Keep What You Have and Create What You Deserve" by Suze Orman (Free Press)
9."Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson (Putnam)
10."This Just In" by Bob Schieffer (Putnam)
USA Today's list is based on a computer analysis of retail book sales nationwide during the last week. Included are more than 1 million volumes from approximately 3,000 large-inventory, diverse-content bookstores.

USA Today calculates a list of approximately 250 best-selling books. The first 10 are listed.

Reporting stores include: Doubleday Book Shops, Hungry Mind Bookstore (St. Paul), Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Cincinnati), Ingram Book Co. (reporting retail sales for independent bookstores including Hawley Cooke Booksellers, Louisville, and a sampling of Little Professor Book Centers), Lauriat's and Royal Discount Book Stores, Scribners Bookstores, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver), Waldenbooks, Waterstone's (Boston), B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble Inc, Books-A-Million and Bookland, Books & Co. (Dayton), Borders Books & Music, Brentano's, Crown Books, Davis Kidd Booksellers (Tennessee).
The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Crown, Doubleday, Scribners, Super Crown and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com.
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