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. 29.
FICTION
1. Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham, $21.95
2. The Choice, by Nicholas Sparks, $24.99
3. You’ve Been Warned, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, $27.99
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
5. Shoot Him if He Runs, by Stuart Woods, $25.95
6. Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo, $26.95
7. The Orc King, by R.A. Salvatore, $27.95
8. Run, by Ann Patchett. $25.95
9. Dead Heat, by Dick Francis and Felix Francis, $25.95
10. Making Money, by Terry Pratchett, $25.95
NONFICTION
1. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, by Alan Greenspan, $35
2. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin, $27.95
3. Louder Than Words, by Jenny McCarthy, $23.95
4. The Coldest Winter, by David Halberstam, $35
5. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer, by the Goldman family, Robert Draper, $28
6. The Vixen Diaries, by Karrine Steffans, $24.99
7. Power to the People, by Laura Ingraham, $27.95
8. The War, by Geoffrey C. Ward, $50
9. The Heroin Diaries, by Nikki Sixx, $32.50
10. Giving, by Bill Clinton, $24.95
FICTION PAPERBACK
1. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen, $13.95
2. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, $15
3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, $15.95
4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards, $14
5. The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud, $14.95
6. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, $13.95
7. Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky, $14.95
8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, $13.95
9. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, $14.95
10. Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, $13.99
NONFICTION PAPERBACK
1. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, by Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
2. Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, $12.95
3. 90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, $12.99
4. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15
5. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, $14
6. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman, $16
7. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, $16
8. Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson, $14.95
9. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, $14.95
10. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, $15.99
