The New York Times listings are based on sales at 3,985 bookstores and wholesalers with 50,000 retail outlets for the week ended Oct. 6.
FICTION
1. Playing for Pizza,
by John Grisham, $21.95
2. The Choice,
by Nicholas Sparks, $24.99
3. Dark of the Moon,
by John Sandford, $26.95
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns,
by Khaled Hosseini, $25.95
5. You’ve Been Warned,
by James Patterson and
Howard Roughan, $27.99
6. Bridge of Sighs,
by Richard Russo, $26.95
7. Run,
by Ann Patchett. $25.95
8. Shoot Him if He Runs,
by Stuart Woods, $25.95
9. The Orc King,
by R.A. Salvatore, $27.95
10. Dead Heat,
by Dick Francis and Felix Francis, $25.95
NONFICTION
1. My Grandfather’s Son, by Clarence Thomas, $26.95
2. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,
by Alan Greenspan, $35
3. If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans, by Ann Coulter, $24.95
4. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin, $27.95
5. Louder Than Words,
by Jenny McCarthy, $23.95
6. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, by Rick Atkinson, $35
7. The War,
by Geoffrey C. Ward, $50
8. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War,
by David Halberstam, $35
9. The Vixen Diaries,
by Karrine Steffans, $24.99
10. Power to the People,
by Laura Ingraham, $27.95
FICTION PAPERBACK
1. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen, $13.95
2. The Kite Runner,
by Khaled Hosseini, $15.95
3. Middlesex,
by Jeffrey Eugenides, $15
4. The Memory Keeper’s
Daughter, by Kim Edwards, $14
5. The Emperor’s Children,
by Claire Messud, $14.95
6. Suite Francaise,
by Irene Nemirovsky, $14.95
7. The Parting, by Beverly Lewis, $13.99
8. The Alchemist,
by Paulo Coelho, $13.95
9. The Road,
by Cormac McCarthy, $14.95
10. The Boleyn Inheritance, by Philippa Gretory, $16
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. The Glass Castle,
by Jeannette Walls, $14
5. Three Cups of Tea,
by Greg Mortenson
and David Oliver Relin, $15
6. The World Is Flat,
by Thomas L. Friedman, $16
7. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson, $14.95
8. Thunderstruck,
by Erik Larson, $14.95
9. The Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison, $13.95
10. The Omnivore’s Dilemma,
by Michael Pollan, $16
