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. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
by Diana Gabaldon|Dell, $28
2. Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman|William Morrow, $26.95
3. The March
by E.L. Doctorow|Random House, $25.95
4. Son of a Witch
by Gregory Maguire|HarperCollins, $26.95
5. The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks|Warner, $24.95
6. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate: The Sunday Philosophy Club
by Alexander McCall Smith|Pantheon Books, $21.95
7. Resurrecting Langston Blue
by Robert Greer|Frog, Ltd., $23.95
8. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith|Penguin, $25.95
9. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
10. Thud
by Terry Pratchett|HarperCollins, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt|Penguin, $25.95
2. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
3. The World Is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-First
Century
by Thomas L. Friedman|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50
4. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich|Henry Holt & Co., $24
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. The Tender Bar
by J.R.
Moehringer|Hyperion, $23.95
8. Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About
by Kevin Trudeau|Alliance Publishing, $29.95
9. 1776
by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $32
10. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t
by Jim Collins|HarperCollins, $27.50
Fiction paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. Wicked
by Gregory Maguire|
HarperCollins, $15
3. Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn|Bantam, $17
4. The Virgin’s Lover
by Philippa Gregory|Touchstone, $16
5. Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card|Tor Science Fiction, $6.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey|Anchor, $14.95
2. The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff|Penguin, $13
3. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
4. How Soccer Explains the World
by Franklin Foer|Perennial, $13.95
5. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
by Mark Leyner, William Goldberg|Crown, $12.95
