Local best sellers
The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Stores, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins and the Boulder Book Store.
FICTION
1. The Land of Painted
Caves, by Jean M. Auel, $30
2. The Ringer,
by Jenny Shank, $29
3. The Tiger’s Wife,
by Téa Obreht, $25
4. The Fifth Witness,
by Michael Connelly, $27.99
5. The Pale King, by David
Foster Wallace, $27.99
6. Once Upon a Time,
There Was You,
by Elizabeth Berg, $26
7. The Wise Man’s Fear,
by Patrick Rothfuss, $29.95
8. The Paris Wife,
by Paula McLain, $25
9. Cold Wind,
by C.J. Box, $25.95
10. Elizabeth I,
by Margaret George, $30
NONFICTION
1. Bossypants,
by Tina Fey, $26.99
2. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, by Rob Bell, $22.99
3. The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization, by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, $25
4. Malcolm X: A Life
of Reinvention,
by Manning Marable, $30
5. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul,
by Howard Schultz with
Joanne Gordon, $25.99
6. The Amazement
Revolution: Seven
Customer Service Strategies to Create an Amazing Customer (and Employee) Experience,
by Shep Hyken, $24.95
7. She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems, by Caroline Kennedy, $24.99
8. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks, $27
9. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand, $27
10. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels,
& Indian Allies,
by Alan Taylor, $35
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Help,
by Kathryn Stockett, $16
2. Water for Elephants,
by Sara Gruen, $13.95
3. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, $15.95
4. The Imperfectionists,
by Tom Rachman, $15
5. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, $15
PAPERBACK
NONFICTION
1. The Immortal Life
of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, $16
2. Heaven Is for Real,
by Todd Burpo with
Lynn Vincent, $16.99
3. The Next Hundred
Million: America In 2050,
by Joel Kotkin, $16
4. 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, $14.99
5. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen,
by Christopher McDougall, $15.95
