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