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 21. Children’s books are not included.
Fiction
1. The Closers
by Michael Connelly|Little, Brown, $26.95
2. The 4th of July
by James Patterson|Little, Brown, $27.95
3. True Believer
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
4. Broken Prey
by John Sandford|Putnam, $26.95
5. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
6. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
7. Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95
8. Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk|Doubleday, $24.95
9. Countdown
by Iris Johansen|Bantam, $25
10. The Innocent
by Harlan Coben|Dutton, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
2. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
3. The World Is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
5. A Lotus Grows in the Mud
by Goldie Hawn with Windy Holden|Putnam, $25.95
6. Elvis by the Presleys
edited by David Ritz|Crown, $24.95
7. My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda|Random House, $26.95
8. Three Nights in August
by Buzz Bissinger|Haughton Mifflin, $25
9. America (The Book)
by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum et al.|Warner, $24.95
10. Sinatra: The Life
by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan|Knopf, $26.95
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. 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. What’s the Matter With Kansas?
by Thomas Frank|Owl/Holt, $14
4. Big Russ and Me
by Tim Russert|Miramax /Hyperion, $13.95
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson|Broadway, $15.95