These New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending April 23. Children’s books are not included.
Fiction
1. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
2. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
3. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
4. Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95
5. No Place Like Home
by Mary Higgins Clark|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
6. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith|Pantheon, $19.95
7. Saturday
by Ian McEwan|Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26
8. A Stroke of Midnight
by Laurel K. Hamilton|Ballantine, $23.95
9. Ya-Yas in Bloom
by Rebecca Wells|HarperCollins, $24.95
10. Two-Dollar Bill
by Stuart Woods|Putnam, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda|Random House,
$26.95
2. The World Is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
3. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
5. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
6. Three Nights in August
by Buzz Bissinger|Houghton Mifflin, $25
7. Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
by Michael Savage|Nelson Current/Thomas Nelson, $25.99
8. One Soldier’s Story
by Bob Dole|HarperCollins, $24.95
9. Garlic and Sapphires
by Ruth Reichl|Penguin, $24.95
10. Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell|Simon & Schuster, $21
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. Nighttime Is My Time
by Mary Higgins Clark|Pocket Books, $7.99
3. Full Bloom
by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes|St. Martin’s, $7.99.
4. R Is for Ricochet
by Sue Grafton|Berkley, $7.99
5. Therapy
by Jonathan Kellerman|Ballantine, $7.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay, Little, Brown, $14,95
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi|Random House, $13.95
3. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
4. Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
5. The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $12.95
