New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending Sept. 3.
Fiction
1. Polar Shift
by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos|Putnam, $26.95
2. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
3. Slow Burn
by Julie Garwood|Ballantine, $25.95
4. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
5. Point Blank
by Catherine Coulter|Putnam, $25.95
6. Chill Factor
by Sandra Brown|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
7. Lifeguard
by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $26.95
8. Without Mercy
by Jack Higgins|Putnam, $25.95
9. Sweetwater Creek
by Anne Rivers Siddons|HarperCollins, $24.95
10. The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks|Warner, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
2. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
3. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |Morrow, $25.95
4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
5. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)
by Bernard Goldberg|HarperCollins, $25.95
6. The Fairtax Book
by Neal Boortz and John Linder|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95
7. New Rules
by Bill Maher|Rodale, $24.95
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. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
Fiction paperback
1. Night Tales: Night Shield, Night Moves
by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $7.99
2. Hour Game
by David Baldacci|Warner, $7.99
3. Payback
by Fern Michaels|Zebra, $6.99
4. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
5. 50 Harbor Street
by Debbie Macomber|Mira, $7.50
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