New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended May 26.
Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
2. The Overlook
Michael Connelly, $21.99
3. The 6th Target
James Patterson and
Maxine Paetro, $27.99
4. Invisible Prey
John Sandford, $26.95
5. Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child, $26
6. The Children of Hurin
J.R.R. Tolkein, edited by Christoher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee, $26
7. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon, $26.95
8. Simple Genius
David Baldacci, $26.99
9. Rant
Chuck Palahniuk, $24.95
10. The Quest
Wilbur Smith, $27.95
Nonfiction
1. The Assault on Reason
Al Gore, $25.95
2. The Reagan Diaries
Ronald Reagan, $35
3. Einstein
Walter Isaacson, $32
4. God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens, $24.99
5. Presidential Courage
Michael Beschloss, $28
6. A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, $22
7. Jesus of Nazareth
Benedict XVI, $24.95
8. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, $26.95
9. Where Have All the
Leaders Gone Lee Iacocca, $25
10. Rickles
Don Rickles with David Ritz, $25
Fiction paperback
1. The Husband
Dean Koontz, $7.99
2. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, $13.95
3. The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, $15.95
4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Kim Edwards, $14
5. The Road
Cormac McCarthy, $14.95
6. The Fifth Horseman
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, $14.99
7. Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky, $14.95
8. Susannah’s Garden
Debbie Macomber, $7.99
9. Cover of Night
Linda Howard, $7.99
10. Two Little Girls in Blue
Mary Higgins Clark, $7.99
Nonfiction paperback
1. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, $14
3. Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, $15.99
4. 90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, $12.99
5. The Final Move Beyond Iraq
Mike Evans, $14.99
6. The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell, $14.95
7. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
8. Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick, $16
9. Night
Elie Wiesel, $9
10. The Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier, $14.95
