Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “R is For Ricochet”
Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam,
$26.95)
2. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
3. “Skinny Dip”
Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $24.95)
4. “Sam’s Letters to Jennifer”
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $24.95)
5. “The Rule of Four”
Ian Caldwell/Dustin Thomason (Dial, $24)
6. “Second Chance”
Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $20)
7. “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
8. “Ten Big Ones”
Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $25.95)
9. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Atria, $17.95)
10. “Kiss Me While I Sleep”
Linda Howard (Ballantine, $25.95)
Nonfiction
1. “My Life”
Bill Clinton (Knopf, $35)
2. “Shadow Divers”
Robert Kurson (Random House, $26.95)
3. “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and
Denim”
David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $24.95)
4. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
5. “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
Thomas Frank (Metropolitan/Holt, $24)
6. “Father Joe”
Tony Hendra (Random House, $24.95)
7. “To Be the Man”
Ric Flair with Keith Elliot Greenberg (Pocket
Books, $26)
8. “Big Russ and Me”
Tim Russert (Miramax, $22.95)
9. “Imperial Hubris”
Anonymous (Brassey’s, $27.50)
10. “Alexander Hamilton”
Ron Chernow (Penguin Press, $35)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Notebook”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $12.95/$7.50)
2. “The Wedding”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $12.95)
3. “Bleachers”
John Grisham (Dell, $6.99)
4. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
5. “Blindside”
Catherine Coulter (Jove, $7.99)
6. “The Bourne Supremacy”
Robert Ludlum (Bantam, $7.99)
7. “Sense of Evil”
Kay Hooper (Bantam, $7.50)
8. “The Vanished Man”
Jeffery Deaver (Pocket Books, $7.99)
9. “When He Was Wicked”
Julia Quinn (Avon, $6.99)
10. “The Secret Life of Bees”
Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
2. “Under the Banner of Heaven”
Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95)
3. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
4. “Dude, Where’s My Country?”
Michael Moore (Warner, $14.95)
5. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “Stupid White Men”
Michael Moore (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $13.95)
7. “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown,
$14.95)
8. “Stiff”
Mary Roach (Norton, $13.95)
9. “Bringing Down the House”
Ben Mezrich (Free Press, $14)
10. “Running With Scissors”
Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14)