New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending Sept. 24.
Fiction
1. Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman|Morrow, $26.95
2. Goodnight Nobody
by Jennifer Weiner|Atria, $26
3. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
4. The March
by E.L. Doctorow|Random House, $25.95
5. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith|Penguin Press, $25.95
6. The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks|Warner, $24.95
7. The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova|Little, Brown, $25.95
8. Polar Shift
by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos|Putnam, $26.95
9. Lipstick Jungle
by Candace Bushnell|Hyperion, $24.95
10. Point Blank
by Catherine Coulter|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. The Tender Bar
by J.R. Moehringer|Hyperion, $23.95
6. A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut|Seven Stories, $23.95
7. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
by Alan Alda|Random House, $24.95
8. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37)
by Bernard Goldberg|HarperCollins, $25.95
9. Where God Was Born
by Bruce Feller|Morrow, $26.95
10. Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich|Metropolitan/Holt, $24
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. 50 Harbor Street
by Debbie Macomber|Mira, $7.50
5. Payback
by Fern Michaels|Zebra, $6.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey|Anchor, $14.95
2. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay/ Little, Brown, $14.95
3. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
4. Chronicles, Volume 1
by Bob Dylan|Simon & Schuster, $14
5. Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond|Norton, $16.95
