Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “The Dark Tower”
Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner,
$35)
2. “The Plot Against America”
Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
3. “Trace”
Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)
4. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
5. “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Sidney Sheldon (Morrow, $25.95)
6. “Incubus Dreams”
Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $23.95)
7. “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
8. “Nights of Rain and Stars”
Maeve Binchy (Dutton, $25.95)
9. “Shopaholic & Sister”
Sophie Kinsella (Dial, $23)
10. “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $27.95)
Nonfiction
1. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David
Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
2. “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)”
Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $26.95)
3. “Chronicles: Volume One”
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)
4. “Unfit for Command”
John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi (Regnery, $27.95)
5. “Will They Ever Trust Us Again?”
Michael Moore (Simon & Schuster, $22)
6. “The Family”
Kitty Kelley (Doubleday, $29.95)
7. “American Soldier”
Tommy Franks (ReganBooks/HarperCollins,
$27.95)
8. “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”
Aron Ralston (Atria, $26)
9. “Shadow War”
Richard Miniter (Regnery, $27.95)
10. “Magical Thinking”
Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s, $23.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Big Bad Wolf”
James Patterson (Warner, $7.99)
2. “Blow Fly”
Patricia Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99)
3. “Winner Takes All”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
4. “Safe Harbour”
Danielle Steel (Dell, $7.99)
5. “Split Second”
David Baldacci (Warner Vision, $7.99)
6. “Sacred Stone”
Cussler and Craig Dirgo (Berkley, $15)
7. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
8. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
9. “The Tristan Betrayal”
Robert Ludlum (St. Martin’s, $7.99)
10. “The Good Earth”
Pearl S. Buck (Washington Square/Pocket,
$12.95 and $14)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Friday Night Lights”
H. G. Bissinger (Da Capo, $15.95
and $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. “The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader”
Michael Moore (Simon & Schuster, $14)
6. “Who’s Looking Out For You?”
Bill O’Reilly (Broadway, $14)
7. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
8. “Flyboys”
James Bradley (Back Bay/Little, Brown,
$14.95)
9. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
10. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)