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. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J.K. Rowling| Scholastic, $29.99
2. Thud
by Terry Pratchett|HarperCollins, $24.95
3. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. The Painted Drum
by Louise Erdrich|HarperCollins, $25.95
5. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith|Penguin, $25.95
6. Where’s My Cow
by Terry Pratchett|HarperCollins, $16.95
7. Eye of the Wolf
by Margaret Coel|Penguin, $23.95
8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See|Random House, $21.95
9. The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks|Warner, $24.95
10. Straken: High Druid of Shannara
by Terry Brooks|Random House, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
2. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50
3. The Tender Bar
by J.R. Moehringer|Hyperion, $23.95
4. Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Other Scoundrels
by Andrea Mitchell|Penguin, $25.95
5. Colorado 1870-2000 II
by John Fielder|Westcliffe, $45
6. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
7. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
8. You: The Owner’s Manual
by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz |HarperResource, $24.95
9. Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About
by Kevin Trudeau|Alliance Publishing, $29.95
10. A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut|Seven Stories, $23.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. The Known World
by Edward P. Jones|HarperCollins, $13.95
3. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd|Penguin, $14
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke|Bloomsbury USA, $15.95
5. Wicked
by Gregory Maguire| HarperCollins, $15
Nonfiction paperback
1. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins|Houghton Mifflin, $16
2. Fighting for Your Marriage
by Howard J. Markman|Jossey-Bass, $16.95
3. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
Mark Leyner, William Goldberg|Crown, $12.95
4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95
5. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
