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 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
