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. 27. Children’s books are not included.
Fiction
1. Point Blank
by Catherine Coulter|Putnam, $25.95
2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. Chill Factor
by Sandra Brown|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
5. Lifeguard
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $26.95
6. Tyrannosaur Canyon
by Douglas Preston|Forge, $24.95
7. Vanish
by Tess Gerritsen|Ballantine Books, $24.95
8. Without Mercy
by Jack Higgins|Putnam, $25.95
9. Sweetwater Creek
by Anne Rivers Siddons|HarperCollins, $24.95
10. The Interruption
of Everything
by Terry McMillan|Viking, $25.95
Nonfiction
1. 1776 by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
2. The World Is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-First
Century by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
3. The Fairtax Book
by Neal Boortz and John Linder|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95
4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
|Morrow, $25.95
5. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) by Bernard Goldberg|HarperCollins, $25.95|Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, $27.50
6. New Rules
by Bill Maher|Rodale, $24.95
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. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University,
$9.95
10. From Pieces to Weight
by 50 Cent|MTV Books/Pocket Books, $23
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. White Hot
by Sandra Brown|Pocket, $9.95
3. The Wedding
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $12.95 and $7.50
4. Night Tales: Nightshade, Night Smoke by Nora Roberts
|Silhouette, $7.99
5. Final Scream
by Lisa Jackson|Zebra, $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. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
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
