The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from Tattered Cover Book Stores, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, Boulder Book Store and Borders Books in Englewood.
Fiction
1. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
2. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith|Random House, $19.95
3. Saturday
by Ian McEwan|Doubleday, $26
4. Ya-Yas in Bloom
by Rebecca Wells|HarperCollins, $24.95
5. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
6. Long Spoon Lane
by Anne Perry|Random House, $25.95
7. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
8. Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Random House, $25.95
9. Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23
10. Missing Persons
by Stephen White|Penguin, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
3. Winning
by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch
|HarperCollins, $27.95
4. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
by Seymour M. Hersh|HarperCollins, $25.95
5. And One More Thing Before You Go …
by Maria Shriver|Free Press, $13.95
6. The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
by Frank Deford|Grove/Atlantic, Inc., $24
7. My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda|Random House, $26.95
8. Urban Sanctuaries: Peaceful Havens for the City Gardener
by Stephen Anderton|Timber Press, $29.95
9. Body for Life for Women: A Woman’s Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
by Pam Peeke|Rodale Press, $26.95
10. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
by Mark Haddon|Vintage Contemporaries, $12
3. Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros|Vintage Books, $13.95
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger|Harvest, $14
5. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd|Penguin, $14
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
by Amy Goodman|Hyperion, $12.95
2. What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank|Henry Holt & Company, $14
3. Sonoita Plain: Views of a Southwestern Grassland
by Carl E. Bock|University of Arizona Press, $20
4. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll|Penguin, $16
5. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett|HarperCollins, $13.95
