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. “Broken Prey”
John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)
4. “The Mermaid Chair”
Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95)
5. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
6. “Countdown”
Iris Johansen (Bantam, $25)
7. “Revenge of the Sith”
Matthew Stover (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95)
8. “Haunted”
Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, $24.95)
9. “Genevieve”
Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton, $24.95)
10. “In the Company of Cheerful Ladies”
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $19.95)
Nonfiction
1. “The World is Flat”
Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50)
2. “Freakonomics”
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95)
3. “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”
Goldie Hawn with Wendy Holden (Putnam, $25.95)
4. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95)
5. “My Life So Far”
Jane Fonda (Random House, $26.95)
6. “Down Came the Rain”
Brooke Shields (Hyperion, $23.95)
7. “On Bull——”
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University, $9.95)
8. “Elvis by the Presleys”
David Ritz (Crown, $24.95)
9. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Taking”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
2. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
3. “A Loving Scoundrel”
Johanna Lindsey (Pocket Star, $7.99)
4. “Hidden Prey”
John Sandford (Berkley, $7.99)
5. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
6. “Kiss Me While I Sleep”
Linda Howard (Ballantine, $7.99)
7. “The Shop on Blossom Street”
Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.50)
8. “Just One Look”
Harlan Coben (Signet, $7.99)
9. “Nighttime is My Time”
Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95)
2. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
3. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
4. “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
Thomas Frank (Owl/Holt, $14)
5. “American Soldier”
Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell (ReganBooks, $16.95)
6. “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
David Sedaris (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
7. “Dreams From My Father”
Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95)
8. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
9. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)