New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Sept. 2.
Fiction
1. Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen|Random House, $24.95
2. Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Little, Brown, $27.99
3. Ricochet by Sandra Brown|Simon & Schuster, $25.95
4. The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth|Putnam, $26.95
5. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud|Knopf, $25
6. Armageddon’s Children by Terry Brooks|Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.95
7. Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson| Tor/Tom Doherty, $27.95
8. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi|Viking, $25.95
9. Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann|Ballantine, $21.95
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. La Bella Figura by Beppe Severgnini|Broadway, $23.95
9. Wins, Losses, and Lessons by Lou Holtz|Morrow, $25.95
10. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell|Little, Brown, $25.95
Fiction Paperback
1. Morrigan’s Cross by Nora Roberts|Jove, $7.99
2. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards|Penguin, $14
3. Six Ranier Drive by Debbie Macomber|Mira, $7.99
4. Camel Club by David Baldacci|Warner Vision, $7.99
5. Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross|Warner, $9.99
Nonfiction Paperback
1. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs|Picador, $14
2. Night by Elie Wiesel|Hill & Wang, $9 (new translation)
3. 1776 by David McCullough|Simon & Schuster, $18
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls|Scribner, $14
5. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore|Rodale, $21.95
