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 28. 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 Closers
by Michael Connelly|Little, Brown, $26.95
4. Velocity
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $27
5. Broken Prey
by John Sandford|Putnam, $26.95
6. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
7. Rage
by Jonathan Kellerman|Ballantine, $26.95
8. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
9. Marker
by Robin Cook|Putnam, $25.95
10. Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Stover|Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
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. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
6. A Lotus Grows in the Mud
by Goldie Hawn with Windy Holden|Putnam, $25.95
7. Shooter
by Jack Coughlin and Casey Kuhlman with Donald A. Davis|St. Martin’s, $24.95
8. America (The Book)
by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum et al.|Warner, $24.95
9. Elvis by the Presleys
edited by David Ritz|Crown, $24.95
10. Down Came the Rain
by Brooke Shields|Hyperion, $23.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Nosy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels|Pocket Books, $7.99
2. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
3. The Taking
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $7.99
4. Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown|Pocket, Star, $7.99
5. Hidden Prey
by John Sandford|Berkley, $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. Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom|Broadway, $11.95
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi|Random House, $13.95
5. Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95