New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending Sept. 25.
Fiction
1. Polar Shift
by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos|Putnam, $26.95
2. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
3. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
4. Point Blank
by Catherine Coulter|Putnam, $25.95
5. High Druid of Shannara:
Straken
by Terry Brooks|Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.95
6. Lipstick Jungle
by Candace Bushnell|Hyperion, $24.95
7. Chill Factor
by Sandra Brown|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
8. The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks|Warner, $24.95
9. Slow Burn
by Julie Garwood|Ballantine, $25.95
10. Without Mercy
by Jack Higgins|Putnam, $25.95
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. New Rules
by Bill Maher|Rodale, $24.95
7. The Fairtax Book
by Neal Boortz and John Linder|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95
8. Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich|Metropolitan/Holt, $24
9. On Bull—-
by Harry G. Frankfurt|Princeton University, $9.95
10. The Game
by Neil Strauss|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $29.95
Fiction paperback
1. Hour Game
by David Baldacci|Warner, $7.99
2. Night Tales: Night Shield, Night Moves
by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $7.99
3. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
4. Payback
by Fern Michaels|Zebra, $6.99
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. Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
3. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
4. Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich|Metropolitan/Owl/Holt, $13
5. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95
