The Denver area’s best-selling books according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, Boulder Book Store and Borders Books in Englewood.
Fiction
1. Saving Fish From Drowning
by Amy Tan|Putnam, $26.95
2. The Hostage by W. E. B. Griffin|Penguin, $26.95
3. The Lighthouse
by P.D. James|Knopf, $25.95
4. On Beauty by Zadie Smith|Penguin, $25.95
5. S Is for Silence
by Sue Grafton|Putnam, $26.95
6. Son of a Witch
by Gregory Maguire|HarperCollins, $26.95
7. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
8. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood|Canongate U.S., $18
9. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly|Little, Brown, $26.95
10. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson|Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23
Nonfiction
1. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
2. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion|Knopf, 23.95
3. My Friend Leonard by James Frey|Riverhead, $24.95
4. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander|Random House, $29.95
5. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
6. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
by John Grogan|HarperCollins, $21.95
7. Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being by Andrew Weil|Knopf, $27.95
8. The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate by Marjorie Williams|Perseus Publishing, $26.95
9. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
10. Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter|Simon & Schuster, $25
Fiction Paperback
1. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
2. Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden|Vintage, $14.95
3. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx|Scribner, $9.95
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon|Vintage, $12.95
5. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos|Grove/Atlantic, Inc., $13
Nonfiction paperback
1. A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey|Anchor, $14.95
2. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin|Harcourt, $15
3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond|Viking, $17
4. Emergenetics: Tap Into the New Science of Success by Geil Browning|HarperCollins, $15.95
5. Glorious One-Pot Meals
by Elizabeth Yarnell|Pomegranate Consulting, $14.95
