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. Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk|Doubleday, $24.95
4. Zorro
by Isabel Allende|HarperCollins, $25.95
5. Blown
by Francine Mathews|Bantam Books, $24
6. Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23
7. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro|Knopf, $24
8. 4th of July
by James Patterson|Little, Brown, $27.95
9. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
10. Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Random House, $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. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
4. Winning
by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch |HarperCollins, $27.95
5. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead
by Phil Lesh|Little, Brown, $25.95
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Red Hat Society’s Laugh Lines: Stories of Inspiration and Hattitude
by Sue Ellen Cooper|Warner Books, $12.95
2. You Can Do It: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown Up Girls
by Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas|Chronicle Books, $24.95
3. The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life
by Jan Cullinane|Rodale Press, $19.95
4. Bushwhacked
by Molly Ivins|Vintage Books, $12
5. The South Beach Diet
by Arthur Agatston|St. Martin’s, $7.99
