1 / The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
Biblical conspiracies, symbols, and secrets.

2 / The Rule of Four
Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (Dial, $24)
Intellectual suspense and medieval code cracking.

3 / Ten big ones
Janet Evanovich (St.  Martin's, $25.95)
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in her 10th book.

4 / The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
Life affirming fable from Tuesdays with Morrie author.

5 / The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam, $23.95)
Contemporary comedy of manners set in California.

6 / Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower VI)
Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner, $30)
The penultimate book in King's Dark Tower saga.

7 / A Good Year
Peter Mayle (Knopf, $24)
Max Skinner chases the good life as a vintner.

8 / The Full Cupboard of Life
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $19.95)
More mystery at the No.  1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

9 / Sam's Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $24.95)
A love story from the master of thriller.

10 / The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant (Random House, $21.95)
Love and painting in 14th-century Florence.

1 / My Life

Bill Clinton (Knopf, $35)
The 42nd president in his own words.

2 / Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
A handbook for the punctuation police.

3 / Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim
David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $24.95)
Funny & moving family recollections from the NPR star.

4 / The South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatston, M.D. (Rodale, $24.95)
Weight loss from Miami Beach.

5 / Big Russ & Me
Tim Russert (Miramax Books, $22.95)
Lessons in life from Russert's plainspoken father.

6 / Father Joe
Tony Hendra (Random House, $24.95)
How a kind monk befriended a restless young man.

7 / Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow (Penguin, $35)
Biography of the first Secretary of the Treasury.

8 / Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward (Simon & Shuster, $28)
An insider's view of the run-up to the Iraq war.

9 / Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson (Random House, $26.95)
Dangerous scuba in a sunken German U-boat.

10 / Founding Mothers
Cokie Roberts (Morrow, $24.95)
A history of the women behind the Founding Fathers.