Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)
2. “The Quickie”
James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99)
3. “The Secret Servant”
Daniel Silva (Putnam, $25.95)
4. “High Noon”
Nora Roberts (Putnam, $26.95)
5. “The Tin Roof Blowdown”
James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $26)
6. “Beyond Reach”
Karin Slaughter (Delacorte, $25)
7. “Lean Mean Thirteen”
Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $27.95)
8. “The First Commandment”
Brad Thor (Atria, $25.95)
9. “The Bourne Betrayal”
Eric Van Lustbader (Warner, $25.99)
10. “Justice Denied”
J.A. Jance (Morrow, $25.95)
Nonfiction
1. “It’s All About Him”
Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson, $24.99)
2. “Lone Survivor”
Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown, $24.99)
3. “Quiet Strength”
Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)
4. “God Is Not Great”
Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)
5. “A Long Way Gone”
Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)
6. “Legacy of Ashes”
Tim Weiner (Doubleday, $27.95)
7. “The World Without Us”
Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.95)
8. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.95)
9. “The Prince of Darkness”
Robert D. Novak (Crown Forum, $29.95)
10. “The Diana Chronicles”
Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50)
Paperback fiction
1. “Water for Elephants”
Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)
2. “Ricochet”
Sandra Brown (Pocket, $9.99)
3. “Echo Park”
Michael Connelly (Grand Central, $7.99)
4. “The MacGregor Brides”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
5. “Almost Dead”
Lisa Jackson (Zebra, $7.99)
6. “Dakota Born”
Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)
7. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)
8. “Dockside”
Susan Wiggs (Mira, $7.99)
9. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)
10. “The Emperor’s Children”
Claire Messud (Vintage, $14.95)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Eat, Pray, Love”
Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)
2. “The Glass Castle”
Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)
3. “90 Minutes in Heaven”
Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)
4. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)
5. “The World is Flat”
Thomas L. Friedman (Picador, $16)
6. “Three Cups of Tea”
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin Books, $15)
7. “Night”
Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)
8. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
9. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
10. “Fiasco”
Thomas E. Ricks (Penguin Books, $16)