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. The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming by Elliot Perlman|Penguin, $24.95
2. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes|Knopf, $24.95
3. The Wall by Jeff Long|Simon & Schuster, $24
4. Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland|Viking, $24.95
5. The Hostage by W.E.B. Griffin|
Penguin, $26.95
6. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice|Knopf, $25.95
7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown|Doubleday, $24.95
8. The People’s Act of Love by James Meek|Canongate Books, $24
9. Death Dance by Linda Fairstein|Scribner, $26
10. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood|Canongate U.S., $18
Nonfiction
1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
2. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
3. Dave Barry’s Money Secrets: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? by Dave Barry|Crown Publishing Group, $24.95
4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion|Knopf, 23.95
5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
6. The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn|Doubledaym $14.95
7. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan|HarperCollins, $21.95
8. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan|Houghton Mifflin, $28
9. My Friend Leonard by James Frey|Riverhead, $24.95
10. Love Smart by Phil McGraw| Simon & Schuster, $26
Fiction Paperback
1. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson| Picador USA, $14
2. Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland|Viking, $14
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
4. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx|Scribner, $9.95
5. Eating Heaven by Jennie Shortridge|Penguin, $12.95
Nonfiction paperback
1. Night by Elie Wiesel|Hill and Wang, $9
2. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey|Anchor, $14.95
3. Emergenetics: Tap Into the New Science of Success by Geil Browning|HarperCollins, $15.95
4. What Mean These Stones?: Lessons of Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the Million Man March the Millions More Movement by Gilbert H. Caldwell|iUniverse, Incorporated, $13.95
5. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin|Harcourt, $15
