These New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000
retail outlets for the week
ending July 16. Children’s books are not included.
Fiction
1. Lifeguard
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $26.95
2. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
3. Until I Find You by John Irving|Random House, $27.95
4. Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich|St. Martin’s, $26.95
5. Origin in Death by J.D. Robb|Putnam, $24.95
6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
7. Miracle by Danielle Steel|Delacorte, $20
8. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
9. True Believer by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
10. Crusader’s Cross by James Lee Burke|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. 1776 by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
2. The World Is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
3. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
4. The Secret Man by Bob Woodward|Simon & Schuster, $23
5. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) by Bernard Goldberg|HarperCollins, $25.95
6. Blink: The Power
of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
7. Confessions of a Video Vixen
by Karrine Steffans|Amistad/HarperCollins, $24.95
8. The Truth About Hillary
by Edward Klein|Sentinel, $24.95
9. On Bull—- by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
10. Lance Armstrong’s War
by Daniel Coyle|HarperCollins, $25.95
Fiction paperback
1. Trace by Patricia Cornwell|Berkley, $7.99
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
3. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason|Dell, $7.99
4. Night Tales: Night Shift, Night Shadow by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $7.99
5. Black Rose by Nora Roberts|Jove, $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. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
4. Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom|Broadway, $11.95
5. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
