New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended May 5.
Fiction
1. Simple Genius | David Baldacci, $26.99
2. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | Michael Chabon, $26.95
3. The Children of Hurin | J.R.R. Tolkein, edited by Christoher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee, $26
4. The Woods | Harlan Coben, $26.95
5. Rant | Chuck Palahniuk, $24.95
6. Altogether Dead | Charlaine Harris, $24.95
7. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive | Alexander McCall Smith, $21.95
8. I Heard That Song Before | Mary Higgins Clark, $25.95
9. Body Surfing | Anita Shreve, $25.99
10. Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult, $26.95
Nonfiction
1. At the Center of the Storm | George Tenet, $30
2. Einstein | Walter Isaacson, $32
3. God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens, $24.99
4. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, $26.95
5. Paula Deen: It Ain’t All About the Cooking | Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen, $25
6. A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah, $22
7. Where Have All the Leaders Gone | Lee Iacocca, $25
8. Silent Partner | Dina Matos McGreevey, $23.95
9. The Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Tableb, $26.95
10. Kabul Beauty School | Deborah Rodriguez with Kristin Ohlson, $25.95
Fiction paperback
1. The Road | Cormac McCarthy, $14.95
2. The Husband | Dean Koontz, $7.99
3. Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen, $13.95
4. The 5th Horseman | James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, $14.99
5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards, $14
6. Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky, $14.95
7. Susannah’s Garden | Debbie Macomber, $7.99
8. Two Little Girls in Blue | Mary Higgins Clark, $7.99
9. Dead Watch | John Sandford, $9.99
10. Cover of Night | Linda Howard, $7.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. Blink | Malcolm Gladwell, $15.99
3. The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls, $14
4. The Measure of a Man | Sidney Poitier, $14.95
5. 90 Minutes in Heaven | Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, $12.99
6. Not on Our Watch | Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, $14.95
7. The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion, $13.95
8. Mayflower | Nathaniel Philbrick, $16
9. Night Elie Wiesel, $9
10. Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
