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NYT Best-sellers

(Weeks on list in parentheses.)

1. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen (Algon-quin, $13.95). A young man — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus. (14)

2. THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95 and $14). An Afghan-American returns to Kabul to learn how a childhood friend has fared. (124)

3. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER by Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14). A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved. (57)

4. THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95). A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America. (17)

5. MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, $15). The narrator — who, at 14, discovered she was a hermaphrodite — tells an epic story about three generations of Greek-Americans. (12)

6. TWELVE SHARP by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $7.99). The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must find a killer and rescue a kidnapped child. (5)

7. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM by Robert Ludlum (Bantam, $7.99). A reissue of the action-packed thriller. (14)

8. BEACH ROAD by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Warner Vision, $9.99). A lawyer defends a high school basketball star suspected of murder. (7)

9. THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho (HarperSan-Francisco, $13.95 and $13). A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure. (20)

10. THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS MIRANDA CHEEVER by Julia Quinn (Avon, $7.99). A woman who, as a young girl, fell for a count, now hopes to claim him as her own. (4)