The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Aug. 25.
Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
2. Play Dirty
Sandra Brown, $26.95
3. Away
Amy Bloom, $23.95
4. The Quickie
James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, $27.99
5. The Sanctuary
Raymond Khoury, $25.95
6. Sweet Revenge
Diane Mott Davidson, $25.95
7. Power Play
Joseph Finder, $24.95
8. Loving Frank
Nancy Horan, $23.95
9. The Secret Servant
Daniel Silva, $25.95
10. Sandworms of Dune
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, $27.95
Nonfiction
1. Quiet Strength
Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker, $26.99
2. Lone Survivor
Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson, $24.99
3. You Can Run But You Can’t Hide
Duane Chapman with Laura Morton, $25.99
4. It’s All About Him
Denise Jackson
with Ellen Vaughn, $24.99
5. God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens, $24.99
6. The World Without Us
Alan Weisman, $24.95
7. A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, $22
8. The Preacher and the Presidents
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, $26.99
9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, $26.95
10. Shattered Dreams
Irene Spencer, $24.95
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. The Emperor’s Children
Claire Messud, $14.95
5. Echo Park
Michael Connelly, $7.99
6. Dear John
Nicholas Sparks, $7.99
7. Almost Dead
Lisa Jackson, $7.99
8. Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, $15
9. Ricochet
Sandra Brown, $9.99
10. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, $13.95
Nonfiction paperback
1. Eat, Pray, Love …
Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. 90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, $12.99
3. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, $14
4. The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, $16
5. Night
Elie Wiesel, $9
6. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
7. Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, $15.99
8. The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell, $14.95
9. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, $12.95
10. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, $14.95
