New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Aug. 26.
Fiction
1. Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross | Little, Brown, $27.99
2. Ricochet by Sandra Brown | Simon & Schuster, $25.95
3. Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.95
4. The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth | Putnam, $26.95
5. Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann | Ballantine, $21.95
6. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi | Viking, $25.95
7. Angels Fall by Nora Roberts | Putnam, $25.95
8. The Messenger by Daniel Silva | Putnam, $25.95
9. Spy by Ted Bell | Atria, $25.95
10. Water for Elephants Algonquin, $23.95
Nonfiction
1. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron | Knopf, $19.95
2. Marley & Me by John Grogan | Morrow, $21.95
3. State of Emergency by Patrick Buchanan | Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.95
4. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks | Penguin, $27.95
5. The World Is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50
6. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Morrow, $25.95
7. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright | Knopf, $27.95
8. Wins, Losses, and Lessons by Lou Holtz | Morrow, $25.95
9. Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper | HarperCollins, $24.95
10. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick | Viking, $29.95
Fiction Paperback
1. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards | Penguin, $14
2. Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross | Warner, $9.99
3. Faithless by Karin Slaughter | Dell, $7.99
4. Born to be Wild by Catherine Coulter | Jove, $7.99
5. Dangerous by Nora Roberts | Silhouette, $7.99
Nonfiction Paperback
1. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs | Picador, $14
2. Night by Elie Wiesel | Hill & Wang, $9 (new translation)
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls | Scribner, $14
4. 1776 by David McCullough | Simon & Schuster, $18
5. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore | Rodale, $21.95
