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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

61.It Happened One Autumn
  Lisa Kleypas,  Avon
Romance: Four ladies are on a quest to find a husband (F) (P)   $7.50
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 31Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 17
62.Indelible
  Karin Slaughter,  HarperTorch
Survivors of a shoot-out are held hostage (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 46Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 36
63.To Kill a Mockingbird
  Harper Lee,  Warner
1960 coming-of-age classic about racism; Pulitzer winner; 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck (F) (P)   $6.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 527Last week: 62Entered Top 150: 10/28/1993Peak: 29
64.Spellbound
  Nora Roberts,  Jove
Romance: A man and a woman discover their deep bonds (F) (P)   $2.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 48Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 48
65.Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption
  Christopher Kennedy Lawford,  William Morrow
Memoir: Son of actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy (president Kennedy's sister) tells of his famous family, his drug and alcohol addiction and recovery (NF) (H)   $25.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 97Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 65
66.Blink
  Malcolm Gladwell,  Little, Brown
Subtitle: "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (NF) (H)   $25.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 40Last week: 53Entered Top 150: 1/20/2005Peak: 6
67.Condi vs. Hillary
  Dick Morris, Eileen McGann,  ReganBooks
Subtitle: "The Next Great Presidential Race" (NF) (H)   $25.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 1Last week: --Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005Peak: 67
68.Memoirs of a Geisha
  Arthur Golden,  Vintage
Fictional confessions of a celebrated Japanese geisha; movie due Dec. 9, 2005 (F) (P)   $14.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 171Last week: 103Entered Top 150: 10/30/1997Peak: 5
69.You: The Owner's Manual
  Michael Roizen, Mehmet Oz,  HarperCollins
Subtitle: "An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger"; the authors appeared on Oprah May 3, 2005 (NF) (H)   $24.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 24Last week: 55Entered Top 150: 5/12/2005Peak: 1
70.Star Wars: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
  Troy Denning,  Del Rey
Second in the trilogy (F) (P)   $6.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 44Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 30
71.What to Expect When You're Expecting
  Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway,  Workman
Updated classic tells you how to navigate those nine months (NF) (P)   $13.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 181Last week: 69Entered Top 150: 4/11/2002Peak: 32
72.The Preacher's Daughter
  Beverly Lewis,  Bethany House Publishers
Daughter of an old order Amish preacher yearns to embrace a new world of art (F) (P)   $13.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 1Last week: --Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005Peak: 72
73.School Days
  Robert B. Parker,  Putnam
Spenser investigates case of school shooting (F) (H)   $24.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 41Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 29
74.The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
  Linda Williams, art by Megan Lloyd,  HarperTrophy
Children: One windy night, a fearless lady encounters scary things in the woods (F) (P)   $5.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 70Last week: 98Entered Top 150: 10/28/1993Peak: 39
75.Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
  Fantasia,  Fireside
Memoir about faith from American Idol ("Summertime") star (NF) (H)   $21.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 40Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005Peak: 40
76.Sudoku Easy to Hard, Volume 2
  Will Shortz,  St. Martin's Griffin
Subtitle: "100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles" (NF) (P)   $6.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 10Last week: 82Entered Top 150: 8/18/2005Peak: 47
77.My Sister's Keeper
  Jodi Picoult,  Washington Square Press
Teen helps cure her sister's leukemia (F) (P)   $14.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 42Last week: 74Entered Top 150: 4/15/2004Peak: 22
78.Hard Truth
  Mariah Stewart,  Ballantine
Romance-suspense: Unsolved mysteries surface on trip home (F) (P)   $6.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 52Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 23
79.Iron Orchid
  Stuart Woods,  Putnam
CIA agent Holly Barker tracks Teddy Fay, an ex-CIA tech wizard who kills for sport (F) (H)   $25.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 1Last week: --Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005Peak: 79
80.The Secret Life of Bees
  Sue Monk Kidd,  Penguin
Lily, 14, runs away from home; story set in South 1964 (F) (P)   $14.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 145Last week: 73Entered Top 150: 10/24/2002Peak: 5
81.Deep Black: Payback
  Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice,  St. Martin's Paperbacks
Ex-Marine sniper must infiltrate Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 115Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005Peak: 81
82.The Sunflower: A Novel
  Richard Paul Evans,  Simon & Schuster
Woman who is heartbroken finds new love when she goes on a humanitarian mission to Peru to help at an orphanage (F) (H)   $19.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 79Entered Top 150: 10/13/2005Peak: 79
83.Dora's Costume Party!
  Christine Ricci, art by Zina Saunders,  Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Children: Boots can't decide what to be for Dora the Explorer's Halloween costume party (F) (P)   $3.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 6Last week: 90Entered Top 150: 9/15/2005Peak: 83
84.Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
  T. Harv Eker,  HarperBusiness
Subtitle: "Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth" (NF) (H)   $19.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 15Last week: --Entered Top 150: 3/3/2005Peak: 2
85.Ripley's Believe It or Not! Planet Eccentric
  Edited by Jenni Rainford,  Ripley Publishing
256 pages of weird facts (NF) (H)   $27.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 1Last week: --Entered Top 150: 10/20/2005Peak: 85
86.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  Mark Haddon,  Vintage
Teen with Asperger's syndrome turns to Sherlock Holmes for inspiration in tracking down a poodle's killer (F) (P)   $12.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 81Last week: 85Entered Top 150: 8/7/2003Peak: 14
87.Melancholy Baby
  Robert B. Parker,  Berkley
Boston P.I. Sunny Randall helps a college student find her birth parents (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 5Last week: 135Entered Top 150: 9/30/2004Peak: 73
88.Phenomenon
  Sylvia Browne,  Dutton
Guide to the paranormal (NF) (H)   $24.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 3Last week: 61Entered Top 150: 10/6/2005Peak: 40
89.New York Post Su Doku 1
  Wayne Gould,  Collins
Subtitle: "The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle" (NF) (P)   $7.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 9Last week: 76Entered Top 150: 8/25/2005Peak: 46
90.Deception Point
  Dan Brown,  Pocket
Uncovering evidence of scientific trickery, a dangerous deception (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 123Last week: 83Entered Top 150: 5/22/2003Peak: 11




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