These New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending May 7. Children’s books are not included.
Fiction
1. The 4th of July
by James Patterson|Little, Brown, $27.95
2. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
3. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
4. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
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. Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95
8. The Innocent
by Harlan Coben|Dutton, $26.95
9. Pawley’s Island
by Dorothea Benton Frank|Berkley, $24.95
10. Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk|Doubleday, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
2. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
3. A Lotus Grows in the Mud
by Goldie Hawn with Windy Holden|Putnam, $25.95
4. My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda|Random House, $26.95
5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
6. Down Came the Rain
by Brooke Shields|Hyperion,$23.95
7. Elvis by the Presleys
edited by David Ritz|Crown, $24.95
8. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
9. Searching for the Sound
by Phil Lesh|Little, Brown, $25.95
10. Baby Laughs
by Jenny McCarthy|Dutton, $19.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Taking
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $7.99
2. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
3. Hidden Prey
by John Sandford|Berkley, $7.99
4. A Loving Scoundrel
by Johanna Lindsey|Pocket Star, $7.99
5. Nighttime Is My Time
by Mary Higgins Clark|Pocket Books, $7.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay, Little, Brown, $14,95
2. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi|Random House, $13.95
4. What’s the Matter With Kansas?
by Thomas Frank|Owl/Holt, $14
5. Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom|Broadway, $11.95