Ishmael Beah's harrowing tale of his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone continues to captivate readers, fueled by word of mouth as well as the fact that it was a featured book of Starbucks. Today marks the 23rd week that A Long Way Gone has been on The Times' best-seller list.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

• Fiction

1.A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95

2. The Quickie - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Little, Brown, $27.99

3. High Noon - Nora Roberts. Putnam, $26.95

4. The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $26

5. Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's, $27.95

• Nonfiction

1. Quiet Strength - Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. Tyndale, $26.99

2. Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Little, Brown, $24.99

3. God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens. Twelve, $24.99

4. The Diana Chronicles - Tina Brown. Doubleday, $27.50

5. A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah. Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22

LOCAL BEST SELLERS

• Fiction

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

2. The Maytrees - Annie Dillard

3. Buddha - Deepak Chopra

4. First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde

5. Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton

• Nonfiction

1. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne

2. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

3. God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

4. Merle's Door - Ted Kerasote

5. Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life - Wayne W. Dyer

Local information from the Tattered Cover, Borders Books in Englewood and the Boulder Book Store.

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