Best-selling books
Fiction
1. “London Bridges”
James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95)
2. “The Da Vinci Code”
Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95)
3. “I Am Charlotte Simmons”
Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.95)
4. “Hour Game”
David Baldacci (Warner, $26.95)
5. “Metro Girl”
Janet Evanovich (HarperCollins, $26.95)
6. “The Five People You Meet in
Heaven”
Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $19.95)
7. “The Christmas Thief”
Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster/Scribner, $21)
8. “Echoes”
Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $27)
9. “The Plot Against America”
Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, $26)
10. “Northern Lights”
Nora Roberts (Putnam, $25.95)
Nonfiction
1. “America (The Book)”
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner, $24.95)
2. “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”
George Carlin (Hyperion, $23.95)
3. “His Excellency”
Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $26.95)
4. “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)”
Ann Coulter (Crown Forum, $26.95)
5. “Chronicles: Volume One”
Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, $24)
6. “The Last Season”
Phil Jackson with Michael Arkush (Penguin Press, $24.95)
7. “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
Thomas Frank (Metropolitan/Holt, $24)
8. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”
Lynne Truss (Gotham, $17.50)
9. “The United States of Europe”
T.R. Reid (Penguin Press, $25.95)
10. “The Games Do Count”
Brian Kilmeade (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95)
Paperback fiction
1. “Blue Dahlia”
Nora Roberts (Jove, $7.99)
2. “Skipping Christmas”
John Grisham (Dell, $6.99)
3. “The Big Bad Wolf”
James Patterson (Warner, $7.99)
4. “Always”
Jude Deveraux (Pocket Books, $7.99)
5. “Odd Thomas”
Dean Koontz (Bantam, $7.99)
6. “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14)
7. “Emma’s Secret”
Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin’s, $7.99)
8. “The Christmas Train”
David Baldacci (Warner, $5.99)
9. “Angels & Demons”
Dan Brown (Pocket Star, $7.99)
10. “The Sinister Pig”
Tony Hillerman (HarperTorch, $7.99)
Paperback nonfiction
1. “Friday Night Lights”
H. G. Bissinger (Da Capo, $15.95/$7.99)
2. “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Azar Nafisi (Random House, $13.95)
3. “The 9/11 Commission Report”
(Norton, $10)
4. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Bill Bryson (Broadway, $15.95)
5. “The Devil in the White City”
Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95)
6. “Heart Full of Lies”
Ann Rule (Pocket, $7.99)
7. “Flyboys”
James Bradley (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95)
8. “Tuesdays With Morrie”
Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95)
9. “Under the Banner of Heaven”
Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95)
10. “The Bookseller of Kabul”
Asne Seierstad. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $12.95)