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. For One More Day by Mitch Albom | Hyperion, $21.95
2. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford | Knopf, $26.95
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Knopf, $24
4. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King | Simon & Schuster, $28
5. What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George | HarperCollins, $26.95
6. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks | Warner Books, $24.99
7. What Is the What by Dave Eggers | McSweeney’s Publishing, $26
8. The Collectors by David Baldacci | Warner, $26.99
9. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $23.95
10. Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund | HarperCollins, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama | Crown, $25
2. You, on a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management by Michael F. Roizen | The Free Press, $25
3. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris | Knopf, $16.95
4. Donghia: The Artistry of Luxury and Style by Sherri Donghia | Bulfinch Press, $40
5. Cross-X by Joe Miller | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26
6. Lessons in Becoming Myself by Ellen Burstyn | Penguin, $25.95
7. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson | Broadway, $25
8. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham | Doubleday, $28.95
9. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward | Simon & Schuster, $30
10. Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller | Simon & Schuster, $35
Fiction paperback
1. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards | Penguin, $14
2. Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino | Pearlsong Press, $20.95
3. The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols | Owl, $17
4. Beware the Wolves: A Soviet WWII Story by Victor Moss | Llumina Press, $17.95
5. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai | Grove/Atlantic, Inc., $14
Nonfiction paperback
1. Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs | St. Martin’s Press, $14
2. Gabby Gourmet 2007 by Pat Miller | T.D.F. Publishing, $14.95
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls | Scribner, $14
4. The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer | Hyperion, $14.95
5. Heckuva Job, Bushie!: A Doonesbury Book by G. B. Trudeau | Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.95
