New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending Oct. 22.
Fiction
1. At First Sight
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
2. Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan|Tor, $29.95
3. Consent to Kill
by Vince Flynn| Atria, $25.95
4. The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly|Little, Brown, $26.95
5. Blue Smoke
by Nora Roberts| 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. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion|Knopf, $23.95
3. The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt|Penguin, $25.95
4. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |Morrow, $25.95
5. My FBI
by Louis J. Freeh with Howard Means|St. Martin’s, $25.95
Fiction paperback
1. London Bridges
by James Patterson|Warner, $7.99
2. Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts|Jove, $9.99
3. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $15.95 and $14
4. Twisted
by Jonathan Kellerman|Ballantine, $7.99
5. Echoes
by Danielle Steel| Dell, $7.99
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. Green River, Running Red
by Ann Rule|Pocket, $9.95
4. Jarhead
by Anthony Swofford. (Pocket Books, $7.99
5. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson. (Vintage, $14.95