New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended May 6.
Fiction
1. Beach Road by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge|Little, Brown, $27.95
2. Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
3. I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris|Doubleday, $21.95
4. Digging to America by Anne Tyler|Knopf, $24.95
5. Promise Me by Harlen Coben|Dutton, $26.95
6. Blue Shoes & Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith|Pantheon, $21.95
7. Dark Harbor by Stuart Woods|Putnam, $25.95
8. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris|Ace, $23.95
9. Full of Grace by Dorothea Benton Frank|Morrow, $24.95
10. Susannah’s Garden by Debbie Macomber|Mira, $23.95
Nonfiction
1. Marley & Me by John Grogan|Morrow, $21.95
2. Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry|Riverhead, $23.95
3. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman|Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
4. Burnt Toast by Teri Hatcher|Hyperion, $24.95
5. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner|Morrow, $25.95
6. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs|St. Martin’s, $23.95
7. The Mighty and the Almighty by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward|HarperCollins, $25.95
8. The Gospel of Judas edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer and Gregor Wurst|National Geographic, $22
9. Clemente by David Maraniss|Simon & Schuster, $26
10. My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme|Knopf, $25.95
Fiction Paperback
1. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown|Anchor, $14.95 and $7.99; Broadway illustrated edition, $22.95
2. Velocity by Dean Koontz|Bantam, $7.99
3. Broken Prey by John Sandford|Berkley, $9.99
4. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown|Pocket Star, $7.99
5. A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber|Mira, $7.99
Nonfiction Paperback
1. Night by Elie Wiesel|Hill & Wang, $9 (new translation)
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote|Vintage, $14
3. The Fairtax Books by Neal Boortz and John Linder|ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $14.95
4. The Covenant With Black America edited by Tavis Smiley|Third World, $12
5. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell|Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95
