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Best Sellers, August 5

Published August 5, 2005 at midnight

New York Times best sellers

Fiction

1. Lifeguard - James Patterson and Andrew Gross. Little, Brown, $26.95

2. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova. Little, Brown, $25.95

3. Until I Find You - John Irving. Random House, $27.95

4. Eleven On Top - Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's, $26.95

5. Origin In Death - J.D. Robb. Putnam, $24.95

6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. Doubleday, $24.95; special illustrated edition, $35

7. Miracle - Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $20

8. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd. Viking, $24.95

9. True Believer - Nicholas Sparks. Warner, $24.95

10. Crusader's Cross - James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $25.95

Nonfiction

1. 1776 - David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $32

2. The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50

3. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, $25.95

4. The Secret Man - Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster, $23

5. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - Bernard Goldberg. HarperCollins, $25.95

6. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $25.95

7. Confessions Of A Video Vixen - Karrine Steffans. Amistad/ HarperCollins, $24.95

8. The Truth About Hillary - Edward Klein. Sentinel, $24.95

9. On Bull---- - Harry G. Frankfurt. Princeton University, $9.95

10. Lance Armstrong's War - Daniel Coyle. HarperCollins, $25.95

Local best sellers

Fiction

1. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

2. No Country For Old Men - Cormac MacCarthy

3. Until I Find You - John Irving

4. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

5. Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Lisa See

6. Freddy & Fredericka - Mark Helprin

7. Zorro - Isabel Allende

8. Crusader's Cross - James Lee Burke

9. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

10. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde

Nonfiction

1. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

2. 1776 - David McCullough

3. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

4. Lance Armstrong's War - Daniel Coyle

5. The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman

6. A Medley of Gardens: Denver Style - Maureen Jabour

7. The Little Red Book Of Selling - Jeffrey Gitomer

8. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About - Kevin Trudeau

9. It's Up To You - Dzigar Kongtrul

10. The Laughing Jesus - Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy

Information for the local best sellers comes from the Tattered Cover, Borders Books in Englewood and the Boulder Book Store.

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