Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “Northern Lights”
Nora Roberts (Putnam, $25.95)
2. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
3. “The Plot Against America”
Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
4. “The Two Swords”
R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast, $27.95)
5. “The Gift”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $16.95)
6. “The Dark Tower”
Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner, $35)
7. “Trace”
Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)
8. “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
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. “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)”
Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $26.95)
4. “Chronicles: Volume One”
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)
5. “The Last Season”
Phil Jackson with Michael Arkush (Penguin Press, $24.95)
6. “A Paper Life”
Tatum O’Neal (HarperEntertainment, $24.95)
7. “Miracle”
Anne Geddes and Celine Dion (Andrews McMeel, $60)
8. “Unfit for Command”
John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi (Regnery, $27.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “Skipping Christmas”
John Grisham (Dell, $6.99)
2. “The Big Bad Wolf”
James Patterson (Warner, $7.99)
3. “Winner Takes All”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
4. “Safe Harbour”
Danielle Steel (Dell, $7.99)
5. “Blow Fly”
Patricia Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99)
6. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
7. “Sacred Stone”
Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo (Berkley, $15)
8. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Friday Night Lights”
H. G. Bissinger (Da Capo, $15.95/$7.99)
2. “The 9/11 Commission Report”
(Norton, $10)
3. “Heart Full of Lies”
Ann Rule (Pocket, $7.99)
4. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
5. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
6. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
7. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
8. “Flyboys”
James Bradley (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)