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 Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson, $27.95
2. Sizzling Sixteen, by Janet Evanovich, $27.99
3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, $24.95
4. The Madonnas of Echo Park, by Brando Skyhorse, $23
5. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, $27
6. Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende, $26.99
7. The Overton Window, by Glenn Beck, $26
8. The Lion, by Nelson DeMille, $27.99
9. Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst, $26
10. The Stormchasers, by Jenna Blum, $25.95
NONFICTION
1. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, $24.95
2. Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth, by James M. Tabor, $26
3. How Did You Get This Number,by Sloane Crosley, $25.95
4. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, by S.C. Gwynne, $27.50
5. Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth, $24
6. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis, $27.95
7. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, by Anthony Bourdain, $26.99
8. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler, $25.99
9. 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
10. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by Nathaniel Philbrick, $30
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, $14.95
2. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, $14
3. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, $15.95
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
5. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, $15.95
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy, by Gregory Salsbury, $19.99
2. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, by Elizabeth Gilbert, $15
3. Broken: A Love Story, by Lisa Jones, $15
4. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford, $15
5. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, by Temple Grandin, $15.95
