The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, the Boulder Book Store and Borders Books at Arapahoe Crossings.
FICTION
1. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, $24.95
2. Imperfect Birds, by Anne Lamott, $25.95
3. The Mapping of Love and Death, by Jacqueline Winspear, $25.99
4. Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005, by Robert Hass, $22.95
5. The Shadow of Your Smile, by Mary Higgins Clark, $25.99
6. Changes, by Jim Butcher, $25.95
7. Sonata Mulattica, by Rita Dove, $24.95
8. Every Last One, by Anna Quindlen, $26
9. Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, by Kevin Young, $24
10. Bite Me, by Christopher Moore, $23.99
NONFICTION
1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis, $27.95
2. Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth, $24
3. This Is Not the Story You Think It Is . . . : A Season of Unlikely Happiness, by Laura Munson, $24.95
4. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, by Helen Thorpe, $27.99
5. Oprah: A Biography, by Kitty Kelley, $30
6. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, by Gretchen Rubin, $25.99
7. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler, $25.99
8. 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak, $26.95
9. This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection, by Carol Burnett, $25
10. Finding Beauty in a Broken World, by Terry Tempest Williams, $26
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, $14.95
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, $15.95
3. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, $14
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon, $16
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving — and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity, by Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell, $14.99
2. Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care), by Rob Witwer and Adam Schrager, $15.95
3. The Braindead Megaphone, by George Saunders, $14
4. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott, $15
5. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, by Temple Grandin, $15.95
