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. The Journeys of Socrates
by Dan Millman|HarperCollins, $23.95
3. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith|Random House, $19.95
4. The Year of Pleasures
by Elizabeth Berg|Random House, $24.95
5. Sugar Camp Quilt
by Jennifer Chiaverini|Simon & Schuster, $22
6. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
7. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $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. The Innocent
by Harlan Coben|Penguin, $26.95
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. Winning
by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch
|HarperCollins, $27.95
3. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. I Told the Mountain to Move
by Patricia Raybon|Tyndale House, $19.99
5. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
6. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott|Penguin, $24.95
7. He’s Just Not That into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo|Simon & Schuster, $21.95
8. Being Perfect
by Anna Quindlen|Random House, $12.95
9. Internal Bleeding: Updated
by Robert Wachter and Kaveh G. Shojania|Rugged Land, $26.95
10. Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
by Michka Assayas|Riverhead, $23.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros|Vintage Books, $13.95
3. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
edited by David Sedaris|Simon & Schuster, $14.95
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
by Mark Haddon|Vintage Contemporaries, $12
5. The Known World
by Edward P. Jones|HarperCollins, $13.95
Nonfiction paperback
1. Denver Dines: A Restaurant Guide and Beyond
by John Lehndorff|Johnson, $15
2. The Tragedy of Today’s Gays
by Larry Kramer|Penguin, $9.95
3. What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank|Henry Holt & Company, $14
4. Medley of Gardens: Denver Style
by Maureen Jabour|Westcliffe, $20
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson|Broadway, $15.95
