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. Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk|Doubleday, $24.95
3. The Hot Kid
by Elmore Leonard|HarperCollins, $25.95
4. Badwater
by Clinton McKinzie|Dell, $23
5. Burned: A Regan Reilly Mystery
by Carol Higgins Clark|Scribner, $23
6. 4th of July
by James Patterson|Little, Brown, $27.95
7. Zorro
by Isabel Allende|HarperCollins, $25.95
8. Bangkok Tattoo
by John Burdett|Knopf, $24
9. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
10. Broken Prey
by John Sandford|Penguin, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. You, the Owners Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger
by Michael F. Roizen|HarperCollins, $24.95
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
3. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50
4. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
5. Easier Than You Think – Because Life Doesn’t Have to Be so Hard
by Richard Carlson|HarperCollins, $16.95
6. Winning
by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch|HarperCollins, $27.95
7. Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad’s Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
by Nancy Conrad|Penguin, $24.95
8. And One More Thing Before You Go …
by Maria Shriver|Free Press, $13.95
9. Bob Greene’s Total Body Makeover: An Accelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time
by Bob Greene|Simon & Schuster, $25
10. The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World
by Reg Saner|Center for American Places, $29.95
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. The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger|Harvest, $14
4. Eventide
by Kent Haruf|Knopf, $13.95
5. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd|Penguin, $14
Nonfiction paperback
1. What’s the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank|Henry Holt & Company, $14
2. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
by Patricia Schultz|Workman, $18.95
3. Medley of Gardens: Denver Style
by Maureen Jabour|Westcliffe Publishers, $20
4. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay, Little, Brown, $14,95
5. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
