Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95)
2. “The Overlook”
Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $21.99)
3. “The 6th Target”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99)
4. “Invisible Prey”
John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)
5. “Bad Luck and Trouble”
Lee Child (Delacorte, $26)
6. “The Children of Húrin”
J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
7. “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”
Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, $26.95)
8. “Simple Genius”
David Balducci (Warner, $26.99)
9. “Rant”
Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, $24.95)
10. “The Quest”
Wilbur Smith (Thomas Dunne, $27.95)
Nonfiction
1. “The Assault on Reason”
Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95)
2. “The Reagan Diaries”
Ronald Reagan (HarperCollins, $35)
3. “Einstein”
Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)
4. “God Is Not Great”
Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)
5. “Presidential Courage”
Michael Beschloss (Simon & Schuster, $28)
6. “A Long Way Gone”
Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)
7. “Jesus of Nazareth”
Benedict XVI (Doubleday, $24.95)
8. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.95)
9. “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”
Lee Iacocca (Scribner, $25)
10. “Rickles’ Book”
Don Rickles with David Ritz (Simon & Schuster, $24)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Husband”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
2. “Water for Elephants”
Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)
3. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)
4. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)
5. “The Road”
Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “The 5th Horseman”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Warner, $14.99)
7. “Suite Française”
Irène Némirovsky (Vintage, $14.95)
8. “Susannah’s Garden”
Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)
9. “Cover of Night”
Linda Howard (Ballantine, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Eat, Pray, Love”
Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)
2. “The Glass Castle”
Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)
3. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)
4. “90 Minutes in Heaven”
Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell, $12.99)
5. “The Final Move Beyond Iraq”
Mike Evans (Frontline, $14.99)
6. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
7. “Three Cups of Tea”
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin Books, $15)
8. “Mayflower”
Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin Books, $16)
9. “Night”
Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)