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. A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
2. Stalin’s Ghost | Martin Cruz Smith, $26.95
3. Lean Mean Thirteen | Janet Evanovich, $27.95
4. Hooked: A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions | Matt Richtel, $24.99
5. Michael Tolliver Lives | Armistead Maupin, $25.95
6. On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan, $22
7. Divisadero | Michael Ondaatje, $25
8. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | Michael Chabon, $26.95
9. The Quickie | James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, $27.99
10. Bungalow 2 | Danielle Steel, $27
Nonfiction
1. The Secret | Rhonda Byrne, $23.95
2. The Assault on Reason | Al Gore, $25.95
3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything | Christopher Hitchens, $24.99
4. The Dangerous Book for Boys | Conn Iggulden, $24.95
5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver, $26.95
6. Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers Tony Deifell, $24.95
7. Merle’s Door: Lessons From a Freethinking Dog | Ted Kerasote, $25
8. The Diana Chronicles | Tina Brown, $27.50
9. The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth about Global Corruption | John Perkins, $25.95
10. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes | Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, $18.95
Fiction paperback
1. Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen, $13.95
2. The Road | Cormac McCarthy, $14.95
3. Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides, $15
4. The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini, $14
5. Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky, $14.95
Nonfiction paperback
1. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson, $15
3. Best Easy Day Hikes Denver | Tracy Salcedo, $6.95
4. Blink | Malcolm Gladwell, $14.99
5. The Tender Bar | J.R. Moehringer, $14.95
