The Secret is out - in a big way. Rhonda Byrne's New Age look at the power of positive thinking takes the top spot in our local nonfiction list, while riding high on the Times' advice- book list as well.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

• Fiction

1. Innocent in Death - J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95

2. Step on a Crack -James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Little, Brown, $27.99

3. Sisters - Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $27

4. The Double Bind - Chris Bojahlian. Shaye Areheart, $25

5. For One More Day - Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95

• Nonfiction

1. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama. Crown, $25

2. Somebody's Gotta Say It - Neil Boortz. HC/HarperCollins, $25.95

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

4. Marley & Me - John Grogan. Morrow, $29.95 and $21.95

5. The Innocent Man - John Grisham. Doubleday, $28.95

LOCAL BEST SELLERS

• Fiction

1. Dry Ice - Stephen White

2. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

3. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

4. Returning to Earth - Jim Harrison

5. Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella

• Nonfiction

1. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne

2. Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah

3. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama

4. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron

5. Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet

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

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