This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday, $24.95.) The murder of a curator at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a centuries-old secret society.	1	76
2	THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $19.95.) An old man who died while trying to rescue a little girl from danger discovers that all will be explained to him in the afterlife.	3	49
3	WHITE HOT, by Sandra Brown. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) Returning home after her brother's mysterious death, a woman is embroiled in family intrigue.	2	2
4	SKINNY DIP, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $24.95.) A woman enlists an ex-cop in a plot to take revenge on her husband, a marine biologist who tried to kill her.	4	7
5	THE RULE OF FOUR, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. (Dial, $24.) Two Princeton students who are trying to unravel the mysteries of a Renaissance text become ensnared in murderous intrigue.	5	16
6	ANGELS & DEMONS, by Dan Brown. (Atria, $17.95.) A Harvard scholar tries to save the Vatican from the machinations of an underground society.	6	35
7	LOST CITY, by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. (Putnam, $26.95.) The discovery of a life-prolonging enzyme -- 2,000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean -- results in a series of disappearances and killings.	8	5
8	DARK JUSTICE, by Jack Higgins. (Putnam, $25.95.) Working with his British counterpart, an American intelligence agent must uncover the source of an international terror ring.		1
9	DUNE: The Battle of Corrin, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.95.) A prequel to Frank Herbert's science fiction series.	10	2
10	SAM'S LETTERS TO JENNIFER, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown, $24.95.) In the house where she grew up, a woman finds a collection of letters addressed to her that will change her life forever.	11	9
11	THE WINDS OF CHANGE, by Martha Grimes. (Viking, $25.95.) Richard Jury and Melrose Plant investigate the deaths of two little girls.		1
12	VISIONS IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam, $21.95.) In 2059, Lt. Eve Dallas searches Manhattan for a killer; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.	9	4
13	BODY DOUBLE, by Tess Gerritsen. (Ballantine, $24.95.) A Boston medical examiner is confronted with a murdered woman who looks exactly like her.	12	2
14	R IS FOR RICOCHET, by Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam, $26.95.) A millionaire hires Kinsey Millhone to baby-sit his newly paroled daughter and keep her out of trouble.	7	7
15	BRIMSTONE, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Warner, $25.95.) Special Agent Pendergast of the F.B.I. probes a seemingly supernatural crime — the grisly murder of a notorious art critic.		2
	Also Selling
16	SHEM CREEK, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Berkley, $22.95.)
17	HUNTING FEAR, by Kay Hooper. (Bantam, $25.)
18	ASSASSIN, by Ted Bell. (Atria, $25.)
19	THE EXILE, by Allan Folsom. (Forge, $25.95.)
20	SONG OF SUSANNAH, by Stephen King. (Donald M. Grant/Scribner, $30.)
21	HISSY FIT, by Mary Kay Andrews. (HarperCollins, $24.95.)
22	TEN BIG ONES, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $25.95.)
23	THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, by Karen Joy Fowler. (Marian Wood/Putnam, $23.95.)
24	THE SOCIETY, by Michael Palmer. (Bantam, $25.)
25	STAR, by Pamela Anderson. (Atria, $24.)
26	SNOW, by Orhan Pamuk. (Knopf, $26.) First Chapter
27	THE IMMORTAL HIGHLANDER, by Karen Marie Moning. (Delacorte, $15.)
28	BERGDORF BLONDES, by Plum Sykes. (Miramax/ Hyperion, $23.95.) First Chapter
29	GLORIOUS APPEARING, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $24.99.)
30	DARK VOYAGE, by Alan Furst. (Random House, $24.95.)
31	SECOND CHANCE, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $20.)
32	DIVINE EVIL, by Nora Roberts. (Bantam, $22.)
33	AMAGANSETT, by Mark Mills. (Putnam, $24.95.)
34	SOMETHING ROTTEN, by Jasper Fforde. (Viking, $24.95.)
35	KILL THE MESSENGER, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $26.)

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending August 28, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.