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. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich | St. Martin’s Press, $26.95
2. The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig | Harcourt, $25
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $23.95
4. The Bookwoman’s Last Fling by John Dunning | Simon & Schuster, $25
5. The Abortionist’s Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde | Knopf, $23.95
6. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky | Knopf, $25
7. The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst | Random House, $24.95
8. The Husband by Dean Koontz | Bantam, $27
9. Beach Road by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge | Little, Brown, $27.95
10. Terrorist by John Updike | Knopf, $24.95
Nonfiction
1. Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan | Morrow, 21.95
2. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Morrow, $25.95
3. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind | Simon & Schuster, $27
4. Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24
5. My Life in France by Julia Child | Knopf, $25.95
6. Armed Madhouse: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal Election ’08, No Child’s Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast | Penguin, $25.95
7. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell | Little, Brown, $25.95
8. Contemporary Western Design High-Style by Thea Marx | Gibbs Smith, $29.95
9. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan | Penguin, $26.95
10. Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann H. Coulter | Crown, $27.95
Fiction Paperback
1. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See | Random House, $13.95
2. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd | Penguin, $14
3. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka | Penguin, $14
4. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson | Back Bay Books, $13.95
5. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger | Broadway, $13.95
Nonfiction Paperback
1. Night by Elie Wiesel | Hill & Wang, $9
2. 1776 by David McCullough | Simon & Schuster, $18
3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond | Viking, $17
4. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins | Plume, $15
5. High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women by Marilyn Griggs Riley | Johnson Books, $16
