The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended July 21.
Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
2. The Quickie | James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, $27.99
3. High Noon | Nora Roberts, $26.95
4. The Tin Roof Blowdown | James Lee Burke, $26
5. Lean Mean Thirteen | Janet Evanovich, $27.95
6. Up Close and Dangerous | Linda Howard, $25.95
7. The First Commandment | Brad Thor, $25.95
8. Someone to Love | Jude Deveraux, $25.95
9. The Judas Strain | James Rollins, $25.95
10. Bungalow 2 | Danielle Steel, $27
Nonfiction
1. Quiet Strength | Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker, $26.99
2. Lone Survivor | Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson, $24.95
3. God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens, $24.99
4. The Diana Chronicles | Tina Brown, $27.95
5. A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah, $22
6. The Assault on Reason | Al Gore, $25.95
7. The World Without Us | Alan Weisman, $24.95
8. The Prince of Darkness | Robert D. Novak, $29.95
9. Legacy of Ashes | Tim Weiner, $27.95
10. Einstein | Walter Isaacson, $32
Fiction paperback
1. Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen, $13.95
2. The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini, $15.95
3. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards, $14
4. Safe Harbor | Christine Feehan, $7.99
5. Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides, $15
6. Twelve Sharp | Janet Evanovich, $7.99
7. The Bourne Ultimatum | Robert Ludlum, $7.99
8. Beach Road | James Patterson and Peter de Jonge, $7.99
9. The Alchemist | Paul Coelho, $13.95
10. The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever | Julia Quinn, $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. Night | Elie Wiesel, $9
6. Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
7. The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell, $14.95
8. The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson, $14.95
9. Mayflower | Nathaniel Philbrick, $16
10. The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion, $13.95
