Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)
2. “Blaze”
Richard Bachman (Scribner, $25)
3. “Double Take”
Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $25.95)
4. “The Children of Húrin”
J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
5. “The Harlequin”
Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $25.95)
6. “The Good Guy”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)
7. “The Navigator”
Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95)
8. “The Overlook”
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $21.99)
9. “The 6th Target”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99)
10. “For One More Day”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95)
Nonfiction
1. “The Reagan Diaries”
Ronald Reagan (HarperCollins, $35)
2. “The Diana Chronicles”
Tina Brown (Doubleday, $27.50)
3. “The Assault on Reason”
Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95)
4. “Einstein”
Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)
5. “Outrage”
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (HC/HarperCollins, $26.95)
6. “Lone Survivor”
Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown, $24.99)
7. “God Is Not Great”
Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)
8. “A Long Way Gone”
Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)
9. “Presidential Courage”
Michael Beschloss (Simon & Schuster, $28)
10. “Tales From Q School”
John Feinstein (Little, Brown, $26.99)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Road”
Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)
2. “Water for Elephants”
Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)
3. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)
4. “Middlesex”
Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador, $15)
5. “Beach Road”
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Warner Vision, $9.99)
6. “Angels Fall”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
7. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)
8. “The Husband”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
9. “Black Order”
James Rollins (Harper, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Eat, Pray, Love”
Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)
2. “Wisdom of Our Fathers”
Tim Russert (Random House, $13.95)
3. “The Glass Castle”
Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)
4. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)
5. “90 Minutes in Heaven”
Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)
6. “Night”
Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)
7. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
8. “Three Cups of Tea”
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin Books, $15)
9. “The Measure of a Man”
Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95)