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. Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932
by Jim Fergus|Hyperion, $23.95
3. The Closers
by Michael Connelly|Little, Brown, $26.95
4. Zorro
by Isabel Allende|HarperCollins, $25.95
5. The Right Madness
by James Crumley|Viking, $24.95
6. New Mercies
by Sandra Dallas|St. Martin’s, $23.95
7. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
8. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
9. Velocity
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $27
10. Broken Prey
by John Sandford|Penguin, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
2. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
3. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50
5. The One Thing You Need to Know … About Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
by Marcus Buckingham|Free Press, $29.95
6. 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
7. Medley of Gardens: Denver Style
by Maureen Jabour|Westcliffe Publishers, $27
8. French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
by Mireille Guiliano|Knopf, $22
9. And One More Thing Before You Go
by Maria Shriver|Free Press, $13.95
10. The United States Of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
by T. R. Reid|Penguin, $25.95
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. Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen|Warner, $12.95
5. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe |Anchor, $9.95
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Don Miguel Ruiz|Amber-Allen, $12.95
2. What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Heidi Murkoff|Workman, $13.95
3. The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $12.95
4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig |Perennial Classics, $13
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson|Broadway, $15.95
