The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Sept. 15.
FICTION
1. You’ve Been Warned, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, $27.99
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
3. Pontoon, by Garrison Keillor, $25.95
4. The Wheel of Darkness, by Douglas Preston an Lincoln Child, $25.95
5. Bones to Ashes, by Kathy Reichs, $24.95
6. The Wednesday Letters, by Jason F. Wright, $19.95
7. Garden Spells, by Sara Addison Allen, $20
8. The Quickie, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, $27.99
9. Dark Possession, by Christine Feehan, $24.95
10. The Elves of Cintra, by Terry Brooks, $26.95
NONFICTION
1. Power to the People, by Laura Ingraham, $27.95
2. Giving, by Bill Clinton, $24.95
3. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer, by the Goldman family, Robert Draper, $28
4. Quiet Strength, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker, $26.99
5. Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, by Mother Teresa, $22.95
6. Lone Survivor, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson, $24.99
7. The War, by Geoffrey C. Ward, $50
8. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, by Alan Alda, $24.95
9. Blonde Ambition, by Rita Crosby, $23.99
10. Dead Certain, by Robert Draper, $28
FICTION PAPERBACK
1. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen, $13.95
2. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, $15.95
3. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards, $14
4. The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud, $14.95
5. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, $13.95
6. Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, $13.99
7. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, $15
8. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, $14.95
9. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, $13.95
10. Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky, $14.95
NONFICTION PAPERBACK
1. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. 90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, $12.99
3. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, $14
4. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
5. The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, $14.95
6. Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, $12.95
7. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman, $16
8. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, $16
9. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, $15.99
10. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, $14.95
