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 23. Children’s books are not included.
Fiction
1. Lifeguard
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $26.95
2. The Interruption of Everything
by Terry McMillan|Viking, $25.95
3. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. Until I Find You
by John Irving|Random House, $27.95
5. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
6. Eleven on Top
by Janet Evanovich|St. Martin’s, $26.95
7. The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella|Dial, $23
8. No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy|Knopf, $24.95
9. Miracle
by Danielle Steel|Delacorte, $20
10. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
2. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)
by Bernard Goldberg|HarperCollins, $25.95
3. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
4. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
5. Confessions of a Video Vixen
by Karrine Steffans|Amistad/HarperCollins, $24.95
6. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
7. The Secret Man
by Bob Woodward|Simon & Schuster, $23
8. The Truth About Hillary
by Edward Klein|Sentinel, $24.95
9. Lance Armstrong’s War
by Daniel Coyle|HarperCollins, $25.95
10. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
Fiction paperback
1. Trace
by Patricia Cornwell|Berkley, $7.99
2. White Hot
by Sandra Brown|Pocket, $9.95
3. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
4. The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason|Dell, $7.99
5. Night Tales: Night Shift, Night Shadow
by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $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. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
5. Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom|Broadway, $11.95