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 Good Guy”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27)
4. “For One More Day”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95)
5. “The 6th Target”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99)
6. “Invisible Prey”
John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95)
7. “The Children of Húrin”
J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
8. “Sacrifice”
Karen Traviss (Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95)
9. “Bad Luck and Trouble”
Lee Child (Delacorte, $26)
10. “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”
Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, $26.95)
Nonfiction
1. “The Assault on Reason”
Al Gore (Penguin Press, $25.95)
2. “The Reagan Diaries”
Ronald Reagan (HarperCollins, $35)
3. “God Is Not Great”
Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $24.99)
4. “Einstein”
Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)
5. “A Long Way Gone”
Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)
6. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $26.95)
7. “Presidential Courage”
Michael Beschloss (Simon & Schuster, $28)
8. “Jesus of Nazareth”
Benedict XVI (Doubleday, $24.95)
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. “Water for Elephants” Sara Gruen (Algonquin, $13.95)
2. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $15.95/$14)
3. “Angels Fall”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
4. “The Husband”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
5. “The Road”
Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Kim Edwards (Penguin, $14)
7. “Beach Road”
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Warner Vision, $9.99)
8. “Suite Française”
Irène Némirovsky (Vintage, $14.95)
9. “The Man from Stone Creek”
Linda Lael Miller (HQN, $7.99)
10. “Black Order”
James Rollins (Harper, $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. “Three Cups of Tea”
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin Books, $15)
7. “The Tipping Point”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
8. “The Measure of a Man”
Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95)
9. “Night”
Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $9)
10. “Mayflower”
Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin Books, $16)