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 Entertainment | Books 
The Top 150 Best-Selling Books
 USA TODAY
Based on sales through Sunday, October 16, 2005. For reviews, book news and a searchable archive of USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, visit booklist.usatoday.com
Key: F=Fiction, NF=Nonfiction, P=Paperback, H=Hardcover
| 1. |  | A Million Little Pieces | | | | James Frey, Anchor | | Memoir: At 23, Frey spent six weeks in rehab to save his life; Oprah's Book Club, announced Sept. 2005 (NF) (P) $14.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 5 |  | Last week: 1 | | Entered Top 150: 6/5/2003 | | Peak: 1 |
| | 2. | | Knife of Dreams | | | | Robert Jordan, Tor | | 11th novel in The Wheel of Time series (F) (H) $29.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 1 | | Last week: -- | | Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 3. | | Northern Lights | | | | Nora Roberts, Jove | | Finding romance and redemption in Alaska (F) (P) $7.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 9 | | Last week: 2 | | Entered Top 150: 10/21/2004 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 4. | | London Bridges | | | | James Patterson, Warner Vision | | Alex Cross must stop terrorists (F) (P) $7.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 15 | | Last week: 3 | | Entered Top 150: 11/18/2004 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 5. | | The Colorado Kid | | | | Stephen King, Hard Case Crime | | Revolves around a mysterious death on an island off Maine (F) (P) $5.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 2 | | Last week: 6 | | Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005 | | Peak: 5 |
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| 6. | | Consent To Kill | | | | Vince Flynn, Atria | | Terrorist fighter finds his own life is in danger (F) (H) $25.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 1 | | Last week: -- | | Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005 | | Peak: 6 |
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| 7. | | Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About | | | | Kevin Trudeau, Alliance Publishing Group | | Offers remedies for diseases (NF) (H) $29.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 18 | | Last week: 7 | | Entered Top 150: 6/23/2005 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 8. | | The Lincoln Lawyer | | | | Michael Connelly, Little, Brown | | Defense attorney gets his first high-paying client, trouble starts (F) (H) $26.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 2 | | Last week: 5 | | Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005 | | Peak: 5 |
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| 9. | | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | | | | J.K. Rowling, art by Mary GrandPré, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic | | Harry, 16, encounters danger, death, love, betrayal and sacrifice in his sixth year at Hogwarts (F) (H) $29.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 14 | | Last week: 9 | | Entered Top 150: 7/21/2005 | | Peak: 1 |
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| 10. | | Eldest: Inheritance, Book II | | | | Christopher Paolini, Knopf Books for Young Readers | | Young adult: Eragon discovers new world (F) (H) $21.00 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 9 | | Last week: 10 | | Entered Top 150: 8/25/2005 | | Peak: 1 |
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| 11. | | The World Is Flat | | | | Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux | | Subtitle: "A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century" (NF) (H) $27.50 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 28 | | Last week: 19 | | Entered Top 150: 4/14/2005 | | Peak: 5 |
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| 12. | | The Purpose-Driven Life | | | | Rick Warren, Zondervan | | Subtitle: "What on Earth Am I Here For?"; Became a best seller again in mid-March 2005 when Ashley Smith, held captive by alleged Atlanta killer, read passages to her captor, gaining her freedom and his trust (NF) (H) $19.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 145 | | Last week: 12 | | Entered Top 150: 1/16/2003 | | Peak: 1 |
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| 13. | | Wicked | | | | Gregory Maguire, ReganBooks | | Subtitle: "The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"; basis of Broadway play (F) (P) $15.00 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 98 | | Last week: 16 | | Entered Top 150: 10/30/2003 | | Peak: 11 |
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| 14. | | Blue Smoke | | | | Nora Roberts, Putnam | | Romance/suspense: Woman changes forever after a brutal fire (F) (H) $25.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 2 | | Last week: 4 | | Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005 | | Peak: 4 |
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| 15. | | The Kite Runner | | | | Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead | | Friendship of a wealthy boy and his father's servant in Afghanistan (F) (P) $14.00 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 75 | | Last week: 20 | | Entered Top 150: 5/13/2004 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 16. | | The City of Falling Angels | | | | John Berendt, The Penguin Press | | Magic and decadence in Venice (NF) (H) $25.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 3 | | Last week: 8 | | Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005 | | Peak: 6 |
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| 17. | | Your Best Life Now | | | | Joel Osteen, Warner Faith | | Subtitle: "7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential" (NF) (H) $19.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 53 | | Last week: 17 | | Entered Top 150: 10/21/2004 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 18. | | The Year of Magical Thinking | | | | Joan Didion, Knopf | | Didion writes about the "shallowness of sanity" after husband John Gregory Dunne died and their only daughter Quintana fell critically ill (NF) (H) $23.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 2 | | Last week: 37 | | Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005 | | Peak: 18 |
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| 19. | | Twisted | | | | Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine | | Departmental politics threaten to sabotage detective's case (F) (P) $7.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 5 | | Last week: 15 | | Entered Top 150: 12/2/2004 | | Peak: 11 |
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| 20. | | A Breath of Snow and Ashes | | | | Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte Press | | Continues saga of 18th-century husband, 20th-century wife (F) (H) $28.00 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 3 | | Last week: 11 | | Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005 | | Peak: 2 |
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| 21. | | Freakonomics | | | | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow | | Economist explores "hidden side of everything" (NF) (H) $25.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 27 | | Last week: 18 | | Entered Top 150: 4/21/2005 | | Peak: 5 |
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| 22. | | My FBI | | | | Louis J. Freeh, St. Martin's Press | | Subtitle: "Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror" (NF) (H) $25.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 1 | | Last week: -- | | Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005 | | Peak: 22 |
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| 23. | | Son of a Witch | | | | Gregory Maguire, ReganBooks | | Sequel to the novel "Wicked" revisits the land of Oz (F) (H) $26.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 3 | | Last week: 14 | | Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005 | | Peak: 8 |
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| 24. | | In Her Shoes | | | | Jennifer Weiner, Pocket Star | | Chick lit: Two sisters, brain and beauty, make journeys of discovery; movie (F) (P) $7.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 41 | | Last week: 23 | | Entered Top 150: 9/26/2002 | | Peak: 19 |
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| 25. | | Echoes | | | | Danielle Steel, Dell | | Story of three generations of women opens in 1915 (F) (P) $7.99 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 12 | | Last week: 13 | | Entered Top 150: 11/4/2004 | | Peak: 9 |
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| 26. | | Why Do Men Have Nipples? | | | | Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, Three Rivers Press | | Promises to answer questions about our bodies' oddities (NF) (P) $12.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 10 | | Last week: 24 | | Entered Top 150: 8/11/2005 | | Peak: 5 |
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| 27. | | 1776 | | | | David McCullough, Simon & Schuster | | Those who marched with General George Washington in 1776 (NF) (H) $32.00 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 21 | | Last week: 21 | | Entered Top 150: 6/2/2005 | | Peak: 1 |
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| 28. | | The Da Vinci Code | | | | Dan Brown, Doubleday | | Murder clues left inside Leonardo art at the Louvre (F) (H) $24.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 135 | | Last week: 22 | | Entered Top 150: 3/27/2003 | | Peak: 1 |
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| 29. | | Light On Snow | | | | Anita Shreve, Little, Brown | | Girl,12, and her father find baby abandoned in snow (F) (P) $14.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 12 | | Last week: 45 | | Entered Top 150: 10/21/2004 | | Peak: 29 |
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| 30. | | Eragon | | | | Christopher Paolini, Knopf Books for Young Readers | | Young adult: Eragon finds his destiny as a Dragon Rider (F) (P) $9.95 | | | | | Weeks in Top 150: 95 | | Last week: 26 | | Entered Top 150: 9/11/2003 | | Peak: 6 |
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