Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “True Believer”
Nicholas Sparks (Warner, $24.95)
2. “The Mermaid Chair”
Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)
3. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
4. “Revenge of the Sith”
Matthew Stover (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95)
5. “No Place Like Home”
Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)
6. “In the Company of Cheerful Ladies”
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $19.95)
7. “Saturday”
Ian McEwan (Doubleday, $26)
8. “A Stroke of Midnight”
Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine, $23.95)
9. “Ya-Yas in Bloom”
Rebecca Wells (HarperCollins, $24.95)
Nonfiction
1. “My Life So Far”
Jane Fonda (Random House, $26.95)
2. “The World is Flat”
Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50)
3. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
4. “Freakonomics”
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95)
5. “On Bull——”
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)
6. “Three Nights in August”
Buzz Bissinger (Houghton Mifflin, $25)
7. “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”
Michael Savage (Nelson Current/Thomas Nelson, $25.99)
8. “One Soldier’s Story”
Bob Dole (HarperCollins, $25.95)
9. “Garlic and Sapphires”
Ruth Reichl (Penguin, $24.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
2. “Nighttime is My Time”
Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books, $7.99)
3. “Full Bloom”
Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes (St. Martin’s, $7.99)
4. “R is For Ricochet”
Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99)
5. “Therapy”
Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine, $7.99)
6. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
7. “Blind Alley”
Iris Johansen (Bantam, $7.99)
8. “The Paid Companion”
Amanda Quick (Jove, $7.99)
9. “The Last Juror”
John Grisham (Dell, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95)
2. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
3. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
4. “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95)
5. “The Bookseller of Kabul”
Asne Seierstad (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $12.95)
6. “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
7. “Leap of Faith”
Queen Noor (Miramax/Hyperion, $13.95)
8. “Under the Banner of Heaven”
Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95.)
9. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)