These New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending June 4. 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 Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
4. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
5. Velocity
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $27
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. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
5. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
Fiction paperback
1. Black Rose
by Nora Roberts|Jove, $7.99
2. Summer’s Child
Luanne Rice|Bantam, $7.50
3. The Nosy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels|Pocket Books, $7.99
4. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
5. Are You Afraid of the Dark?
by Sidney Sheldon|Warner, $7.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay, Little, Brown, $14,95
2. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris|Back bay/Little, Brown, $14.95
3. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi|Random House, $13.95
5. Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
