Best-selling books
Sun., June 19, 2005
Fiction
1. “4th of July”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.95)
2. “True Believer”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)
3. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
4. “The Mermaid Chair”
Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)
5. “Velocity”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)
6. “The Closers”
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.95)
7. “Rage”
Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $26.95)
8. “Broken Prey”
John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)
9. “Devil’s Corner”
Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins, $25.95)
10. “Revenge of the Sith”
Matthew Stover (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $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. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
5. “On Bull——”
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)
6. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
7. “The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc”
Douglas Brinkley (Morrow, $22.95)
8. “Coach”
Michael Lewis (Norton, $12.95)
9. “Collapse”
Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95)
10. “Oh the Glory of It All”
Sean Wilsey (Penguin Press, $25.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “Black Rose”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
2. “Summer’s Child”
Luanne Rice (Bantam, $7.50)
3. “The Nosy Neighbor”
Fern Michaels (Pocket Books, $7.99)
4. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
5. “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Sidney Sheldon (Warner, $7.99)
6. “Oceans of Fire”
Christine Feehan (Jove, $7.99)
7. “The Taking”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
8. “Second Chance”
Danielle Steel (Dell, $7.50)
9. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
10. “Skinny Dip”
Carl Hiaasen (Warner, $12.95)
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. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
4. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
5. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)
6. “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
Thomas Frank (Owl/Holt, $14)
7. “My Life: The Early Years”
Bill Clinton (Vintage, $7.99)
8. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
9. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
10. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)
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