New York Times best sellers

• Fiction

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

2. 4th Of July - James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, $27.95

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

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

5. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby. Riverhead/Penguin, $24.95

6. The Twelfth Card - Jeffery Deaver. Simon & Schuster, $25.95

7. Velocity - Dean Koontz. Bantam, $27

8. The Closers - Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $26.95

9. Rage - Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $26.95

10. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $19.95

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

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

6. America (The Book) - Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show. Warner, $24.95

7. Objection! - Nancy Grace with Diane Clehane. Hyperion, $24.95

8. The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc - Douglas Brinkley. Morrow, $22.95

9. Coach - Michael Lewis. Norton, $12.95

10. Three Nights In August - Buzz Bissinger. Houghton Mifflin, $25

Local best sellers

• Fiction

1. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

2. Eleven On Top - Janet Evanovich

3. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

4. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

5. Killer Swell - Jeff Shelby

6. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

7. The Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea

8. Dance of Death - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

9. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

10. Zorro - Isabel Allende

• Nonfiction

1. 1776 - David McCullough

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

3. The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman

4. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

5. Now Discover Your Strengths - Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton

6. Lance Armstrong's War - Daniel Coyle

7. It's Up To You - Dzigar Kongtrul

8. The Last Sentry - Gregory D. Young, Greg Braden

9. QBQ! The Question Behind The Question - John G. Miller

10. Devil's Teeth - Susan Casey

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

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