New York Times best sellers

• Fiction

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

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

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

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

5. Dance of Death - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Warner, $25.95

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

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

8. Velocity - Dean Koontz. Bantam, $27

9. Killing Time - Linda Howard. Ballantine, $25.95

10. One Shot - Lee Child. Delacorte, $25

• 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. Three Nights in August - Buzz Bissinger. Houghton Mifflin, $25

8. Coach - Michael Lewis. Norton, $12.95

9. The Survivor - John F. Harris. Random House, $29.95

10. Luckiest Man - Jonathan Eig. Simon & Schuster, $26

Local best sellers

• Fiction

1. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

2. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

3. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

4. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell

5. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

6. One Shot - Lee Child

7. Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovich

8. Olympos - Dan Simmons

9. Zorro - Isabel Allende

10. The Closers - Michael Connelly

• Nonfiction

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

2. 1776 - David McCullough

3. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

4. The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman

5. Lance Armstrong's War - Daniel Coyle

6. Fires in the Bathroom - Kathleen Cushman

7. You: The Owner's Manual - Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz

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

9. It's Up to You - Dzigar Kongtrul

10. My Friend Leonard - James Frey

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

Back to Top