New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ending Dec. 17.
Fiction
1. Mary, Mary
by James Patterson|Little, Brown, $27.95
2. S Is for Silence
by Sue Grafton |Marlan Wood/Putnam, $26.95
3. At First Sight
by Nicholas Sparks|Warner, $24.95
4. Amazing Peace
by Maya Angelou|Random House, $9.95.
5. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95; special illustrated edition, $35
6. Forever Odd
by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $27
7. Predator
by Patricia Cornwell|Putnam, $26.95
8. Light From Heaven
by Jan Karon|Viking, $26.95
9. The Lighthouse
by P.D. James|Knopf, $25.95
10. The Camel Club
by David Baldacci|Warner, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. Teacher Man
by Frank McCourt|Scribner, $26
2. Our Endangered Values:
America’s Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter|Simon & Schuster, $25
3. Team of Rivals
by Doris Kearns Goodwin|Simon & Schuster, $35
4. Marley & Me
by John Grogan|Morrow, $21.95
5. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman |Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
6. 1776
by David McCullough| Simon & Schuster, $32
7. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
8. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion|Knopf, $23.95
9. The Truth (With Jokes)
by Al Franken|Dutton, $25.95
10. My Friend Leonard
by James Frey|Riverhead, $24.95
Fiction Paperback
1. Red Lily
by Nora Roberts|Jove, $7.99
2. The Broker
by John Grisham| Dell, $7.99
3. Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden|Vintage, $14.95; $7.99
4. Going Home
by Nora Roberts|Silhouette, $7.99
5. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $15.95 and $14
Nonfiction Paperbacks
1. A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey|Anchor, $14.95
2. Worth More Dead
by Ann Rule|PocketBooks, $7.99
3. The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson|Vintage, $14.95
4. The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay/ Little, Brown, $14.95
5. Cash: The Autobiography
by Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr|HarperCollins, $7.99