In an Instant, Lee and Bob Woodruff's tale of the anchorman's recovery from a head injury suffered in Iraq, leads the national list with a story that doesn't sugarcoat the couple's experience: "What would I have changed about that moment, that morning," Lee writes of the day her husband left for Iraq, "if I had known all of our lives would be blackened, held to a flame and singed, torched by a wartime explosion?"

THE NEW YORK TIMES

• Fiction

1. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult. Atria, $26.95

2. Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy. Knopf, $25.95

3. Sisters - Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $27

4. Shopaholic & Baby - Sophie Kinsella. Dial, $24

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

• Nonfiction

1. In An Instant - Lee & Bob Woodruff. Random House, $25.95

2. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron. Knopf, $19.95

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

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

5. Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Free Press, $26

LOCAL BEST SELLERS

• Fiction

1. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

2. What is The What - Dave Eggers

3. Antler Dust - Mark Stevens

4. Changing Light - Nora Gallagher

5. Friends in High Places - Marne Davis Kellogg

• Nonfiction

1. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne

2. Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah

3. Grace (Eventually) -Anne Lamott

4. An Ordinary Man - Paul Rusesabagina & Tom Zoellner

5. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan

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

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