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 30. 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. No Place Like Home
by Mary Higgins Clark|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
5. Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
3. My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda|Random House, $26.95
4. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
5. One Soldier’s Story
by Bob Dole|HarperCollins, $24.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Taking
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $7.99
2. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
3. A Loving Scoundrel
by Johanna Lindsey|Pocket Star, $7.99
4. Nighttime Is My Time
by Mary Higgins Clark|Pocket Books, $7.99
5. Kiss Me While I Sleep
by Linda Howard|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. Dreams From My Father
by Barack Obama|Three Rivers, $13.95
5. Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95