Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “Simple Genius”
David Balducci (Warner, $26.99)
2. “The Children of Hurin”
J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
3. “The Woods”
Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95)
4. “The Good Husband of Zebra Drive”
Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95)
5. “I Heard That Song Before”
Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $25.95)
6. “Body Surfing”
Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $25.99)
7. “Nineteen Minutes”
Jodi Picoult (Atria, $26.95)
8. “Back on Blossom Street”
Debbie Macomber (Mira, $24.95)
9. “Fresh Disasters”
Stuart Woods (Putnam, $25.95)
10. “The River Knows”
Amanda Quick (Putnam, $24.95)
Nonfiction
1. “Einstein”
Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $32)
2. “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?”
Lee Iacocca (Scribner, $25)
3. “Paula Deen: It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ “
Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster, $25)
4. “A Long Way Gone”
Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22)
5. “The Black Swan”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95)
6. “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right”
Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins, $25.95)
7. “How Doctors Think”
Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
8. “Big Papi”
David Ortiz with Tony Massarotti (St. Martin’s, $24.95)
9. “Nixon and Kissinger”
Robert Dallek (HarperCollins, $32.50)
10. “If I Am Missing or Dead”
Janine Latus (Simon & Schuster, $25)
Paperback fiction
1. “The Road”
Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, $14.95)
2. “Susannah’s Garden”
Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.99)
3. “The Fifth Horseman”
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Warner, $14.99)
4. “Raintree: Inferno”
Linda Howard (Silhouette, $5.25)
5. “Two Little Girls in Blue”
Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Eat, Pray, Love”
Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Books, $15)
2. “The Measure of a Man”
Sidney Poitier (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95)
3. “The Glass Castle”
Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $14)
4. “Blink”
Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $15.99)
5. “The Year of Magical Thinking”
Joan Didion (Vintage, $13.95)