Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “Lifeguard”
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $26.95)
2. “The Historian”
Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95)
3. “Until I Find You”
John Irving (Random House, $27.95)
4. “Eleven on Top”
Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $26.95)
5. “Origin in Death”
J. D. Robb (Putnam, $24.95)
6. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
7. “Miracle”
Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $20)
8. “The Mermaid Chair”
Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)
9. “True Believer”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)
10. “Crusader’s Cross”
James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)
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 and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95)
4. “The Secret Man”
Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, $23)
5. “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”
Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins, $25.95)
6. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
7. “Confessions of a Video Vixen”
Karrine Steffans (Amistad/HarperCollins, $24.95)
8. “The Truth About Hillary”
Edward Klein (Sentinel, $24.95)
9. “On Bull——”
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)
10. “Lance Armstrong’s War”
Daniel Coyle (HarperCollins, $25.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “Trace”
Patricia Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99)
2. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
3. “The Rule of Four”
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99)
4. “Night Tales: Night Shift, Night Shadow”
Nora Roberts (Silhouette, $7.99)
5. “Black Rose”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
6. “The Summer I Dared”
Barbara Delinsky (Pocket Books, $9.95)
7. “Hunting Fear”
Kay Hooper (Bantam, $7.50)
8. “Ten Big Ones”
Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s, $7.99)
9. “It’s In His Kiss”
Julia Quinn (Avon, $6.99)
10. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
2. “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
3. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)
4. “Tuesdays with Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
5. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
7. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
8. “Pledged”
Alexandra Robbins (Hyperion, $13.95)
9. “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
10. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)