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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. 20. Children’s books are not included.

Fiction

1. Chill Factor

by Sandra Brown|Simon & Schuster, $25.95

2. The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95

3. The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95

4. Lifeguard

by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $26.95

5. Sweetwater Creek

by Anne Rivers Siddons|HarperCollins, $24.95

6. The Mermaid Chair

by Sue Monk Kidd|Viking, $24.95

7. The Undomestic Goddess

by Sophie Kinsella|Dial, $23

8. The Interruption of Everything

by Terry McMillan|Viking, $25.95

9. No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy|Knopf, $24.95

10. Until I Find You

by John Irving|Random House, $27.95

Nonfiction

1. 1776

by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32

2. The Fairtax Book

by Neal Boortz and John Linder|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95

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|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50

5. New Rules

by Bill Maher|Rodale, $24.95

6. Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |Morrow, $25.95

7. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95

8. Confessions of a Video Vixen

by Karrine Steffans|Amistad/HarperCollins, $24.95

9. From Pieces to Weight

by 50 Cent|MTV Books/Pocket Books, $23

10. Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson

by Keith Ablow|St. Martin’s, $23.95

Fiction paperback

1. The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14

2. White Hot

by Sandra Brown|Pocket, $9.95

3. Night Tales: Nightshade, Night Smoke

by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $7.99

4. The Wedding

by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $12.95 and $7.50

5. Trace

by Patricia Cornwell|Berkley, $7.99

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. The Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95

4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95

5. Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95

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