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 5th Horseman
by James Patterson | Little, Brown & Company, $27.95
2. Cell
by Stephen King | Simon & Schuster, $26.95
3. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown | Doubleday, $24.95
4. Saving Fish From Drowning
by Amy Tan | Putnam, $26.95
5. Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes | Knopf, $24.95
6. In the Company of the Courtesan
by Sarah Dunant | Random House, $23.95
7. The Sea
by John Banville | Knopf, $23
8. Saturday
by Ian McEwan | Doubleday, $26
9. The Last Templar
by Raymond Khoury | Penguin, $24.95
10. Sea Change
by Robert B. Parker | Penguin, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
by John Grogan | HarperCollins, $21.95
2. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
3. Sweet Potato Queens’ Wedding Planner/Divorce Guide
by Jill Connor Browne | Crown, $22.95
4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell | Little, Brown, $25.95
5. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion | Knopf, $23.95
6. Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Morrow, $25.95
7. The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooney | Basic Books, $24.95
8. Teacher Man
by Frank McCourt | Scribner, $26
9. Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World
by James Cramer | Simon & Schuster, $26
10. You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
by Deborah Tannen | Random House, $24.95
Fiction Paperback
1. Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson | Picador USA, $14
2. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini|Riverhead, $14
3. Wicked
by Gregory Maguire| ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $15
4. Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro | Knopf, $14.95
5. Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson | Back Bay Books, $13.95
Nonfiction Paperback
1. Night
by Elie Wiesel | Hill and Wang, $9
2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond | Viking, $17
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins | Penguin, $15
4. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin | Harcourt, $15
5. Gabby Gourmet 2006
by Pat Miller | T.D.F. Publishing, $14.95
