The following are the bestselling titles during the week ended Sunday,
September 25, at New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association
member stores as reported to Book Sense.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
3. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356)
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
5. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)
6. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
7. Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell (Hyperion, $24.95, 0786868198)
8. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
9. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Morrow, $26.95, 006051518X)
10. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
11. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26, 0743470117)
12. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
13. Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel (Random House, $21.95, 1400063450)
14. Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor (Viking, $25.95, 0670034363)
15. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786868716)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion, $23.95, 1401300642)
2. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
3. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
4. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
5. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
6. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
7. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946)
8. The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama (Random House, $24.95, 076792066X)
9. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
10. The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol (Crown, $25, 1400052440)
11. New Rules by Bill Maher (Rodale, $24.95, 1594862958)
12. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
13. Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins (Bantam, $25, 0553804510)
14. Five Families by Selwyn Raab (Thomas Dunne, $29.95, 0312300948)
15. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060761288)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
3. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316010677)
4. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
5. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
6. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
9. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
10. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
11. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
12. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
13. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $13.95, 0812968972)
14. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Vintage, $14.95, 0375703861)
15. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Bad Dog by R.D. Rosen, et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
3. Will in the World by Stephen J. Greenblatt (Norton, $14.95, 039332737X)
4. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
5. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2006 (Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 1571983678)
6. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
7. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
8. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806)
9. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 031242227X)
10. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner, et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
11. What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff (Workman, $15.95, 0761129588)
12. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
13. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
14. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Back Bay, $12.95, 0316159417)
15. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
Mass Market
1. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
2. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
3. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
4. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
5. Trace by Patricia D. Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204200)
6. The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner (Ballantine, $7.99, 0345478983)
7. Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027387)
8. Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060527307)
9. 50 Harbor Street by Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.50, 0778322084)
10. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
3. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
4. A Family of Poems edited by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
5. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
6. Junie B., First Grader: Boo . . . and I Mean It! by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $3.99, 0375828079)
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
8. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
10. The Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (The Clique #4) by Lisi Harrison (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316701343)
11. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
13. Tails by Matthew Van Fleet (Red Wagon, $13.95, 0152167730)
14. Cranium Big Book of Outrageous Fun! (Little, Brown, $19.99, 0316011932)
15. Dragonology Handbook by Ernest Drake (Candlewick, $12.99, 076362814X)
Hardcover Fiction
1. The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95, 0375506713)
2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, $25.95, 1594200637)
3. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356)
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
5. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (Warner, $24.95, 0446500127)
6. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $21.95, 0375422994)
7. Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell (Hyperion, $24.95, 0786868198)
8. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
9. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Morrow, $26.95, 006051518X)
10. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
11. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26, 0743470117)
12. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
13. Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel (Random House, $21.95, 1400063450)
14. Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor (Viking, $25.95, 0670034363)
15. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786868716)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion, $23.95, 1401300642)
2. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
3. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
4. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
5. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
6. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Seven Stories, $23.95, 158322713X)
7. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946)
8. The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama (Random House, $24.95, 076792066X)
9. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
10. The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol (Crown, $25, 1400052440)
11. New Rules by Bill Maher (Rodale, $24.95, 1594862958)
12. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
13. Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins (Bantam, $25, 0553804510)
14. Five Families by Selwyn Raab (Thomas Dunne, $29.95, 0312300948)
15. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060761288)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
3. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316010677)
4. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
5. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
6. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square, $14, 0743454537)
8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
9. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks, $15, 0060987103)
10. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
11. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
12. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
13. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Random House, $13.95, 0812968972)
14. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Vintage, $14.95, 0375703861)
15. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury, $14.95, 1582346100)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902)
2. Bad Dog by R.D. Rosen, et al. (Workman, $9.95, 0761139834)
3. Will in the World by Stephen J. Greenblatt (Norton, $14.95, 039332737X)
4. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
5. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2006 (Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 1571983678)
6. Sudoku Easy to Hard edited by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355033)
7. Chronicles by Bob Dylan (S&S, $14, 0743244583)
8. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806)
9. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Picador, $14, 031242227X)
10. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner, et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
11. What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff (Workman, $15.95, 0761129588)
12. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
13. Sudoku Easy, Volume 1 by Will Shortz (St. Martin's, $6.95, 0312355025)
14. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Back Bay, $12.95, 0316159417)
15. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
Mass Market
1. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
2. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
3. The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (Pocket, $7.99, 1416503900)
4. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
5. Trace by Patricia D. Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204200)
6. The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner (Ballantine, $7.99, 0345478983)
7. Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027387)
8. Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060527307)
9. 50 Harbor Street by Debbie Macomber (Mira, $7.50, 0778322084)
10. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House, $19.99, 0439554004)
3. Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $16.95, 0375821821)
4. A Family of Poems edited by Caroline Kennedy, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Hyperion, $19.95, 0786851112)
5. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
6. Junie B., First Grader: Boo . . . and I Mean It! by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus (Random House, $3.99, 0375828079)
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
8. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in) by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
10. The Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (The Clique #4) by Lisi Harrison (Little, Brown, $9.99, 0316701343)
11. Dragonology by Ernest Drake, illustrated by Helen Ward and Douglas Carrel (Candlewick, $19.99, 0763623296)
12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
13. Tails by Matthew Van Fleet (Red Wagon, $13.95, 0152167730)
14. Cranium Big Book of Outrageous Fun! (Little, Brown, $19.99, 0316011932)
15. Dragonology Handbook by Ernest Drake (Candlewick, $12.99, 076362814X)