These New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending Aug. 6. 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. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
4. The Interruption of Everything
by Terry McMillan|Viking, $25.95
5. The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella|Dial, $23
6. Until I Find You
by John Irving|Random House, $27.95
7. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
8. Double Tap
by Steve Martini|Putnam, $26.95
9. No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy|Knopf, $24.95
10. Miracle
Danielle Steel|Delacorte, $20
Nonfiction
1. The Fairtax Book
by Neal Boortz and John Linder|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95
2. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
3. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman |Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
4. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)
by Bernard Goldberg|HarperCollins, $25.95
5. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $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. New Rules
by Bill Maher|Rodale, $24.95
9. Lance Armstrong’s War
by Daniel Coyle|HarperCollins, $25.95
10. The Truth About Hillary
by Edward Klein|Sentinel, $24.95
Fiction paperback
1. White Hot
by Sandra Brown|Pocket, $9.95
2. Night Tales: Nightshade, Night Smoke
by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $7.99
3. Trace
by Patricia Cornwell|Berkley, $7.99
4. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
5. Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: City of Night
by Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman|Bantam, $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. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95
4. It’s Not About the Bike
by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins|Berkley, $14
5. Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95