BESTSELLERS

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*--* 1 Atonement by Ian McEwan (Anchor: $14) A haunting novel of guilt and redemption in World War II England

2 The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (Griffin: $13.95) The travails of an overworked caregiver

3 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin: $14) A teenage girl is haunted by her mother’s death

4 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Harvest Books: $12) A day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway and her London coterie

5 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Anchor: $10) Literary sunshine in a gray communist village

6 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Picador: $13) Three women linked across time by Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.”

7 McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales edited by Michael Chabon (Vintage: $13.95)

8 The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman (HarperPaper- backs: $7.95) A truck and a corpse lead into a web of Navajo lore

9 Three Fates by Nora Roberts (Jove: $7.99) The Sullivan siblings pursue a thief who pinched a Greek mythic silver statue

10 Daddy’s Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books: $7.99) A reporter faces a family protecting one of its own

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*--* 1 Dreaming War by Gore Vidal (Thunder’s Mouth: $11.95) Arguing that greed, not justice, underlies Bush’s focus on Iraq

2 Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine: $15) How a thoroughbred horse went from also-ran to sports icon

3 Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins (Quill: $13.95) How a low-carb diet helps shed pounds

4 Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (HarperCollins: $13.95) The unappetizing practices of the junk-food industry

5 Power and Terror by Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories Press: $11.95) Alternatives to militarism and violence

6 Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (Random House: $12.95) A girl’s African childhood

7 Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Techpress: $15.95) Fiscal parenting

8 Lucky by Alice Sebold (Back Bay: $11.95) A memoir of the author’s rape in college and how it plunged her life into chaos

9 Trading Spaces: Behind the Scenes edited by Brian Kramer (Meredith Books: $19.95) Quick room makeovers

10 A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine (Touchstone: $14) The many different ways in which children learn

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