Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “The Historian”
Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95)
2. “4th of July”
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)
3. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
4. “The Mermaid Chair”
Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)
5. “Dance of Death”
Douglas Preston (Warner, $25.95)
6. “True Believer”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)
7. “A Long Way Down”
Nick Hornby (Riverhead/Penguin, $24.95)
8. “Velocity” Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)
9. “Killing Time”
Linda Howard. (Ballantine, $25.95)
10. “One Shot” Lee Child (Delacorte, $25)
Nonfiction
1. “1776”
David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $32)
2. “The World is Flat”
Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50)
3. “Freakonomics”
Steven D. Levitt (Morrow, $25.95)
4. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
5. “On Bull——”
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)
6. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart (Warner, $24.95)
7. “Three Nights in August”
Buzz Bissinger (Houghton Mifflin, $25)
8. “Coach”
Michael Lewis (Norton, $12.95)
9. “The Survivor”
John F. Harris (Random House, $29.95)
10. “Luckiest Man”
Jonathan Eig (Simon & Schuster, $26)
Paperback fiction
1. “Black Rose”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
2. “Summer’s Child”
Luanne Rice (Bantam, $7.50)
3. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
4. “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Sidney Sheldon (Warner, $7.99)
5. “The Nosy Neighbor”
Fern Michaels (Pocket Books, $7.99)
6. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
7. “Second Chance”
Danielle Steel (Dell, $7.50)
8. “The Secret Life of Bees”
Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14)
9. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”
Mark Haddon (Vintage Contemporaries, $12)
10. “Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: War of Eagles”
Jeff Rovin (Berkley, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
2. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
3. “Shadow Divers”
Robert Kurson (Random House/Ballantine, $14.95)
4. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
5. “My Life: The Early Years”
Bill Clinton (Vintage, $7.99)
6. “Big Russ and Me”
Tim Russert (Miramax/Hyperion, $13.95)
7. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
8. “Tuesdays with Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
9. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)
10. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)