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 Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides, $28
2. Damned, by Chuck Palahniuk, $24.95
3. Reamde, by Neal Stephenson, $35
4. Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks, $25.99
5. The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes, $23.95
6. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain, $25
7. The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, $26.95
8. The Affair, by Lee Child, $28
9. Snuff, by Terry Pratchet, $25.99
10. The Litigators, by John Grisham, $28.95
NONFICTION
1. A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel, $24.95
2. The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent and Accelerate Performance, by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, $22.95
3. You Need a Leader — Now What? How to Choose the Best Person for Your Organization, by James M. Citrin and Julie Daum, $26
4. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis, $25.95
5. Be a Shortcut: The Secret Fast Track to Business Success, by Scott G. Halford, $24.95
6. The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, $50
7. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, $28
8. What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes, $25
9. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand, $27
10. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, by Erik Larson, $26
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, $16
2. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, $15
3. Room, by Emma Donoghue, $14.99
4. A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, $14.95
5. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, $14.99
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Larry in Wonderland: A Pearls Before Swine Collection, by Stephan Pastis, $12.99
2. Writing about Literature with 2009 MLA Update: A Portable Guide/Edition 2, by Janet E. Gardner, $9.95
3. The Best American Essays of the Century, by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) and Robert Atwan (Editor), $19.95
4. Lone Survivor, by Marcus Luttrell and
Patrick Robinson, $15.99
5. Heaven Is for Real, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent, $16.99
