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 14. 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. Broken Prey
by John Sandford|Putnam, $26.95
4. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
5. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
6. Countdown
by Iris Johansen|Bantam, $25
7. Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95
8. Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk|Doubleday, $24.95
9. Genevieve
by Eric Jerome Dickey|Dutton, $24.95
10. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith|Pantheon, $19.95
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. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
5. My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda|Random House, $26.95
6. Down Came the Rain
by Brooke Shields|Hyperion, $23.95
7. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
8. Elvis by the Presleys
edited by David Ritz|Crown, $24.95
9. America (The Book)
by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum et al.|Warner, $24.95
10. Three Nights in August
by Buzz Bissinger|Haughton Mifflin, $25
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. Hidden Prey
by John Sandford|Berkley, $7.99
5. Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown|Pocket, Star, $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. American Soldier
by Tommy Franks with Malcolm|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $16.95