Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “4th of July”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.95)
2. “True Believer”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)
3. “The Closers”
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95)
4. “Velocity”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)
5. “Broken Prey”
John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)
6. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
7. “Rage”
Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $26.95)
8. “The Mermaid Chair”
Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)
9. “Marker”
Robin Cook (Putnam, $25.95)
Nonfiction
1. “1776”
David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, $32)
2. “Freakonomics”
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95)
3. “The World is Flat”
Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50)
4. “On Bull——”
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)
5. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
6. “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”
Goldie Hawn with Wendy Holden (Putnam, $25.95)
7. “Shooter”
Jack Coughlin and Casey Kuhlman (St. Martin’s, $24.95)
8. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
9. “Elvis by the Presleys”
David Ritz (Crown, $24.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Nosy Neighbor”
Fern Michaels (Pocket Books, $7.99)
2. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
3. “The Taking”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
4. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
5. “Hidden Prey”
John Sandford (Berkley, $7.99)
6. “Nighttime is My Time”
Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books, $7.99)
7. “Just One Look”
Harlan Coben (Signet, $7.99)
8. “Black Rose”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
9. “When We Meet Again”
Victoria Alexander (Avon, $6.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
2. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
3. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
4. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
5. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)
6. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
7. “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
Thomas Frank (Owl/Holt, $14)
8. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)
9. “Big Russ and Me”
Tim Russert (Miramax/Hyperion, $13.95)