The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from Tattered Cover Book Stores, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, Boulder Book Store and Borders Books in Englewood.
Fiction
1. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
2. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
3. The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95
4. Until I Find You
by John Irving|Random House, $27.96
5. The Hummingbird’s Daughter
by Luis Alberto Urrea|Little, Brown, $24.95
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J.K. Rowling| Scholastic, $29.99
7. No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy|Knopf, $24.95
8. Lifeguard
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $26.95
9. The Eldest
by Christopher Paolini|Knopf, $21
10. Lunar Park
by Bret Easton Ellis|Knopf, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman |Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50
2. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
3. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
5. New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
by Bill Maher|Rodale Press, $24.95
6. Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About
by Kevin Trudeau|Alliance Publishing, $29.95
7. Lance Armstrong’s War
by Daniel Coyle|HarperCollins, $25.95
8. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
9. He’s Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo|Simon & Schuster, $21.95
10. The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resilience
by Robert Scaer|Norton, $32
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd|Penguin, $14
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon|Vintage Contemporaries, $12
4. Snow
by Orhan Pamuk|Knopf, $14.95
5. Wicked
by Gregory Maguire|HarperCollins, $15
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
3. Sudoku: Easy to Hard
by Will Shortz|St. Martin’s, $6.95
4. The South Beach Diet
by Arthur Agatston|St. Martin’s, $14.95 and $7.99
5. Don’t Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
by George Lakoff|Chelsea Green, $10
