Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Best-selling books

The Spokesman-Review

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)