Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “The Broker”
John Grisham (Doubleday, $27.95)
2. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
3. “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven”Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
4. “Conviction”
Richard North Patterson (Random House, $25.95)
5. “State of Fear”
Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $27.95)
6. “By Order of the President”
W. E. B. Griffin (Putnam, $26.95)
7. “Chainfire”
Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.95)
8. “The Last Kingdom”
Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins, $25.95)
9. “Labyrinth of Evil”
James Luceno (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95)
10. “Unexpected Blessings”
Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin’s, $24.95)
Nonfiction
1. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
2. “Collapse”
Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95)
3. “Witness”
Amber Frey (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $25.95)
4. “God’s Politics” Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95)
5. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
6. “Animals in Translation”
Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Scribner, $25)
7. “102 Minutes”
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn (Times Books/Holt, $26)
8. “Winning the Future”
Newt Gingrich (Regnery, $27.95)
9. “Chronicles: Volume One”
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)
10. “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”
John Perkins (Berrett-Koehler, $24.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Last Juror”
John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)
2. “Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son”
Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. (Bantam, $7.99)
3. “3rd Degree”
James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Warner, $7.99)
4. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
5. “Ransom”
Danielle Steel (Dell, $7.99)
6. “Visions in Death”
J. D. Robb (Berkley, $7.99)
7. “Love Overboard”
Janet Evanovich (HarperTorch, $7.50)
8. “Wait Until Midnight”
Amanda Quick (Jove, $7.99)
9. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
10. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Mark Haddon (Vintage Contemporaries, $12)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)
2. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
3. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
4. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $14.95)
5. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
7. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
8. “A Child Called ‘It’ “
Dave Pelzer (Health Communications, $9.95)
9. “The Privilege of Youth”
Dave Pelzer (Plume, $12)
10. “The Bookseller of Kabul”
Asne Seierstad (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $12.95)