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San Francisco Chronicle, paperbacks
1 A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
2 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
3 Runaway, Alice Munro
4 In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
5 Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
6 Plot Against America, Philip Roth
7 Close Range, Annie Proulx
8 Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
9 Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10 The United States Constitution: A Hip Pocket Guide

    
Washington Post, nonfiction  
1 Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
2 Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
3 The World is Flat, Thomas L Friedman
4 Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
5 The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
6 Are Men Necessary?, Maureen Dowd
7 The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
8 Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil
9 The truth: With Jokes, Al Franken
10 Freakonomics, Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner 		 

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