Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)
2. “Play Dirty”
Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $26.95)
3. “Away”
Amy Bloom (Random House, $23.95)
4. “The Quickie”
James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99)
5. “The Sanctuary”
Raymond Khoury (Dutton, $25.95)
6. “Sweet Revenge”
Diane Mott Davidson (Morrow, $25.95)
7. “Power Play”
Joseph Finder (St. Martin’s, $24.95)
8. “Loving Frank”
Nancy Horan (Ballantine, $23.95)
9. “The Secret Servant”
Daniel Silva (Putnam, $25.95)
10. “Sandworms of Dune”
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.95)
Nonfiction
1. “Quiet Strength”
Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale, $26.99)
2. “Lone Survivor”
Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown, $24.99)
3. “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide”
Duane Chapman with Laura Morton (Hyperion, $25.95)
4. “It’s All About Him”
Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson, $24.99)
5. “God Is Not Great”
Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)
6. “The World Without Us”
Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.95)
7. “A Long Way Gone”
Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)
8. “The Preacher and the Presidents”
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy (Center Street, $26.99)
9. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.95)
10. “Shattered Dreams”
Irene Spencer (Center Street, $24.99)
Paperback fiction
1. “Water for Elephants”
Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)
2. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)
3. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)
4. “The Emperor’s Children”
Claire Messud (Vintage, $14.95)
5. “Echo Park”
Michael Connelly (Grand Central, $7.99)
6. “Dear John”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $13.99)
7. “Almost Dead”
Lisa Jackson (Zebra, $7.99)
8. “Middlesex”
Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, $15)
9. “Ricochet”
Sandra Brown (Pocket, $9.99)
10. “The Alchemist”
Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95/$13)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Eat, Pray, Love”
Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15)
2. “90 Minutes in Heaven”
Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)
3. “The Glass Castle”
Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)
4. “The World is Flat”
Thomas L. Friedman (Picador, $16)
5. “Night”
Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)