New York Times best sellers

• Fiction

1. Polar Shift - Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. Putnam, $26.95

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

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

4. Point Blank - Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $25.95.

5. High Druid Of Shannara: Straken - Terry Brooks. Del Ray/Ballantine, $26.95

6. Lipstick Jungle - Candace Bushnell. Hyperion, $24.95

7. Chill Factor - Sandra Brown. Simon & Schuster, $25.95

8. The Widow Of The South - Robert Hicks. Warner, $24.95

9. Slow Burn - Julie Garwood. Ballantine, $25.95

10. Without Mercy - Jack Higgins. Putnam, $25.95

• Nonfiction

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

2. 1776 - David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $32

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

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

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

6. New Rules - Bill Maher. Rodale, $24.95

7. The FairTax Book - Neal Boortz, John Linder. ReganBooks/ HarperCollins, $24.95

8. Bait And Switch - Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan/Holt, $24

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

10. The Game - Neil Strauss. ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $29.95

Local best sellers

• Fiction

1. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

2. Widow Of The South - Robert Hicks

3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith

4. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

5. The March - E.L. Doctorow

6. No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

7. Thud - Terry Pratchett

8. Eldest - Christopher Paolini

9. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke

10. Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Lisa See

• Nonfiction

1. The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman

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

3. Talking Back - Andrea Mitchell

4. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

5. The Shame Of The Nation - Jonathan Kozol

6. The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer

7. The Horses In My Life - Monty Roberts

8. Cities In The Wilderness - Bruce Babbitt

9. Colorado 1870-2000 II - John Fielder

10. Copy This! - Paul Orfalea, Ann Marsh

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

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