Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
2. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
3. “A Salty Piece of Land”
Jimmy Buffett (Little, Brown, $27.95)
4. “Black Wind”
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam, $27.95)
5. “Night Fall”
Nelson DeMille (Warner, $26.95)
6. “London Bridges”
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)
7. “Skeleton Man”
Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins, $25.95)
8. “I Am Charlotte Simmons”
Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.95)
9. “Whiteout”
Ken Follett (Dutton, $26.95)
10. “The Christmas Thief”
Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster/Scribner, $21)
Nonfiction
1. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
2. “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”
George Carlin (Hyperion, $23.95)
3. “His Excellency”
Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $26.95)
4. “Faithful”
Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King (Scribner, $26)
5. “Favre”
Brett Favre and Bonita Favre with Chris Havel (N.F.L. Publishing/RuggedLand, $29.95)
6. “Chronicles: Volume One”
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)
7. “The Games Do Count”
Brian Kilmeade (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95)
8. “Learning to Sing”
Clay Aiken with Allison Glock (Random House, $21.95)
9. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
10. “My Life”
Bill Clinton (Knopf, $35)
Paperback fiction
1. “Skipping Christmas”
John Grisham (Dell, $6.99)
2. “Reunion”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
3. “Blue Dahlia”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
4. “The Conspiracy Club”
Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $7.99)
5. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
6. “Trojan Odyssey”
Clive Cussler (Berkley, $7.99)
7. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
8. “The Christmas Train”
David Baldacci (Warner, $5.99)
9. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Mark Haddon (Vintage Contemporaries, $12)
10. “True Colors”
Diana Palmer (Harlequin, $6.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
2. “Kiss Me, Kill Me”
Ann Rule (Pocket Star, $7.99)
3. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
4. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)
5. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “Franklin and Winston”
Jon Meacham. (Random House, $16.95)
7. “The 9/11 Commission Report”
(Norton, $10)
8. “Heart Full of Lies”
Ann Rule (Pocket, $7.99)
9. “Holidays on Ice”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $8.95)
10. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)