New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Aug. 12.
Fiction
1. Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross | Little, Brown, $27.99
2. Angels Fall by Nora Roberts | Putnam, $25.95
3. Crisis by Robin Cook | Putnam, $25.95
4. The Messenger by Daniel Silva | Putnam, $25.95
5. The Ruins by Scott Smith | Knopf, $24.95
6. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg | (Random House, $25.95
7. Phantom by Terry Goodkind | Tor/Tom Doherty, $29.95
8. Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston | Warner, $21.99
9. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich | St. Martin’s, $26.95
10. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | Algonquin, $23.95
Nonfiction
1. Marley & Me by John Grogan | Morrow, $21.95
2. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron | Knopf, $19.95
3. Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks | Penguin, $27.95
4. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
5. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright | Knopf, $27.95
6. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Morrow, $25.95
7. Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper | HarperCollins, $24.95
8. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick | Viking, $29.95
9. Godless by Ann Coulter | Crown Forum, $27.95
10. Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean | Viking, $25.95R
Fiction Paperback
1. Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross | Warner, $9.99
2. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards | Penguin, $14
3. Chill Factor by Sandra Brown | Pocket, $9.99
4. Dangerous Nora Roberts | Silhouette, $7.99
5. Born to Be Wild by Catherine Coulter | Jove, $7.99
Nonfiction Paperback
1. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore | Rodale, $21.95
2. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs | Picador, $14
3. Night by Elie Wiesel | Hill & Wang, $9 (new translation)
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls | Scribner, $14
5. 1776 by David McCullough | Simon & Schuster, $18
