FICTION Last week/Weeks on list
1. The Mermaid Chair, 4/10
by Sue Monk Kidd
2. 4th of July, 1/6
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
3. True Believer, 2/9
by Nicholas Sparks
4. The Da Vinci Code, 3/117
by Dan Brown
5. A Long Way Down, —/1
by Nick Hornby
6. The Twelfth Card, —/1
by Jeffery Deaver
7. Velocity, 5/3
by Dean Koontz
8. The Closers, 6/4
by Michael Connelly
9. Rage, 7/3
by Jonathan Kellerman
10. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, 12/90
by Mitch Albom
NONFICTION
1. 1776, 1/3
by David McCullough
2. The World is Flat, 3/10
by Thomas Friedman
3. Freakonomics, 2/9
by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
4. Blink, 4/22
by Malcolm Gladwell
5. On Bull----, 5/13
by Harry G. Frankfurt
6. America (The Book), 6/37
by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David
Javerbaum et. al.
7. Objection! —/1
by Nancy Grace with Diane Clehane
8. The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc, 7/2
by Douglas Brinkley
9. Coach, 8/4
by Michael Lewis
10. Three Nights in August, 13/11
by Buzz Bissinger
ADVICE, HOW-TO AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. You: The Owner's Manual, 1/6
by Michael Roisen and Mehmet Oz
2. The Purpose-Driven Life, 2/126
by Rick Warren
3. Your Best Life Now, 3/34
by Joel Osteen
4. French Women Don't Get Fat, 4/17
by Mireille Guiliano
5. Winning, 5/10
by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
Rankings reflect sales figures at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent sales in all such outlets nationwide. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above.