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This week's top 150 best sellers
Based on sales through Sunday, February 26, 2006
Key: F=Fiction, NF=Nonfiction, P=Paperback, H=Hardcover

1.5th Horseman
  James Patterson, Maxine Paetro,  Little, Brown
Patients at a hospital suddenly turn deathly ill (F) (H)   $27.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 1Entered Top 150: 2/23/2006Peak: 1
2.Marley & Me
  John Grogan,  William Morrow
Life with a lively 97-pound yellow labrador retriever (NF) (H)   $21.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 19Last week: 4Entered Top 150: 10/27/2005Peak: 2
3.Night
  Elie Wiesel, translation by Marion Wiesel,  Hill and Wang
Memoir: Nobel Peace Prize winner's classic about the Holocaust is based on Wiesel's experience at Nazi concentration camps; Oprah's Book Club, announced Jan. 16, 2006, picked this translation (NF) (P)   $9.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 6Last week: 3Entered Top 150: 1/26/2006Peak: 1
4.Cell
  Stephen King,  Scribner
Cell phones transmit horrific phenomenon (F) (H)   $26.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 5Last week: 2Entered Top 150: 2/2/2006Peak: 1
5.The Closers
  Michael Connelly,  Warner Books
Detective Harry Bosch returns to work on unsolved murder case (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 12Last week: 5Entered Top 150: 5/26/2005Peak: 3
6.The Da Vinci Code
  Dan Brown,  Doubleday
Murder clues left inside Leonardo art at the Louvre (F) (H)   $24.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 154Last week: 6Entered Top 150: 3/27/2003Peak: 1
7.The Third Secret
  Steve Berry,  Ballantine Books
Historic religious secret rattles the Vatican (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 7Last week: 8Entered Top 150: 5/26/2005Peak: 7
8.Memoirs of a Geisha
  Arthur Golden,  Vintage
Fictional memoirs of a geisha; movie (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 190Last week: 7Entered Top 150: 10/30/1997Peak: 2
9.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: 47Last week: 10Entered Top 150: 4/14/2005Peak: 5
10.The Templar Legacy
  Steve Berry,  Ballantine Books
Quest to find lost treasures of the ancient Knights Templar (F) (H)   $24.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 1Last week: --Entered Top 150: 3/2/2006Peak: 10
11.The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
  Lisi Harrison,  Little, Brown
Fifth in the Clique series; Claire wants her first kiss from Cam (F) (P)   $9.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 47Entered Top 150: 2/23/2006Peak: 11
12.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; new editions will have an author's note saying Frey "embellished many details about my past experiences and altered others" (NF) (P)   $14.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 24Last week: 9Entered Top 150: 6/5/2003Peak: 1
13.In Cold Blood
  Truman Capote,  Vintage
In this classic, Capote reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial and execution of the killers; 5-Oscar-nominated movie is based on Truman Capote's life (NF) (P)   $14.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 19Last week: 18Entered Top 150: 10/27/2005Peak: 13
14.The Broker
  John Grisham,  Dell
Pardoned power broker knows dangerous CIA secrets (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 33Last week: 13Entered Top 150: 1/20/2005Peak: 1
15.Cordina's Royal Family: Gabriella & Alexander
  Nora Roberts,  Silhouette Special Releases
Has two romance novels -- "Affaire Royale" and "Command Performance" (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 5Last week: 11Entered Top 150: 2/2/2006Peak: 3
16.The Last Templar
  Raymond Khoury,  Dutton
Thriller revolves around hidden history of the crusading Knights (F) (H)   $24.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 6Last week: 15Entered Top 150: 1/26/2006Peak: 15
17.Impossible
  Danielle Steel,  Dell
Widowed gallery owner has affair with married artist (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 9Last week: 12Entered Top 150: 3/10/2005Peak: 7
18.Honeymoon
  James Patterson, Howard Roughan,  Warner Books
FBI agent discovers cloudy past of a seemingly perfect woman (F) (P)   $13.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 20Last week: 14Entered Top 150: 2/24/2005Peak: 1
19.Skeleton Man
  Tony Hillerman,  HarperCollins
Joe Leaphorn is on the case when jewel resurfaces after plane crash (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 10Last week: 16Entered Top 150: 12/2/2004Peak: 11
20.Angels & Demons
  Dan Brown,  Pocket Star
Vendetta launched against Catholic Church (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 154Last week: 17Entered Top 150: 3/27/2003Peak: 2
21.Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World
  John Hagee,  Front Line
Says nuclear showdown between Iran and Israel is imminent (NF) (P)   $14.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 6Last week: 25Entered Top 150: 1/26/2006Peak: 14
22.The Kite Runner
  Khaled Hosseini,  Riverhead
Friendship, betrayal of two boys in Afghanistan (F) (P)   $14.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 94Last week: 21Entered Top 150: 5/13/2004Peak: 2
23.Micah
  Laurell K. Hamilton,  Jove
Request to raise the dead unites two creatures (F) (P)   $7.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 1Last week: --Entered Top 150: 3/2/2006Peak: 23
24.Gilead
  Marilynne Robinson,  Picador
Dying Reverend writes a letter to his young son; Pulitzer winner 2005 (F) (P)   $14.00
  
Weeks in Top 150: 15Last week: 19Entered Top 150: 12/9/2004Peak: 15
25.In the Company of the Courtesan
  Sarah Dunant,  Random House
Historical novel set in Renaissance Italy about a young courtesan (F) (H)   $23.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 31Entered Top 150: 2/23/2006Peak: 25
26.Freakonomics
  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner,  William Morrow
Economist explores "hidden side of everything"; winner of the 2005 Quills Book Awards for Business (NF) (H)   $25.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 46Last week: 27Entered Top 150: 4/21/2005Peak: 5
27.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: 117Last week: 23Entered Top 150: 10/30/2003Peak: 11
28.Su Doku for Dummies
  Andrew Heron, Edmund James,  Wiley
Pocket-sized guide with strategies to tackling puzzles (NF) (P)   $9.99
  
Weeks in Top 150: 30Last week: 35Entered Top 150: 8/11/2005Peak: 25
29.Naruto, Vol. 9
  Masashi Kishimoto,  Viz
Graphic novel: Ninja students fight to advance to the third stage of the test (F) (P)   $7.95
  
Weeks in Top 150: 2Last week: 147Entered Top 150: 2/23/2006Peak: 29
30.Crazy in Love
  Luanne Rice,  Bantam
Troubled wife meets handsome stranger (F) (P)   $7.50
  
Weeks in Top 150: 4Last week: 20Entered Top 150: 2/9/2006Peak: 10

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