Hardcover Fiction
1. Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova (Little Brown $25.95)
2. No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy (Random House $24.95)
3. Open Season, by Jim Moriarty (Sports Media Group $22.95)
4. Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin $24.95)
5. Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch, by Dai Sijie (Random House $22)
6. Until I Find You, by John Irving (Random House $27.95)
7. 72 Hour Hold, by Bebe Moore Campbell (Random House $24.95)
Paperback Fiction
1. Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead $14)
2. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie (Random House $11.00)
3. High Country Fall, by Margaret Maron (Warner Books $6.99)
4. Hissy Fit, by Mary Kay Andrews (Harper Collins $13.95)
5. Must Love Dogs, by Claire Cook (Penguin $13.95)
6. Standing in the Rainbow, by Fannie Flagg (Bantam$7.99)
7. Tampa Burn, by Randy White (Berkley $7.99)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Pinehurst: Golf, History, and the Good Life, by Audrey Moriarty (Sports Media Group $26.95)
2. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, by Bernard Goldberg (HarperCollins $25.95)
3. Down Range, by Dick Couch (Random House $25)
4. Hope & Honor, by Sidney Shachnow (St. Martin’s Press $24.95)
5. Lance Armstrong’s War, by Daniel Coyle (HarperCollins $25.95)
6. After the Apple, by Naomi Rosenblatt (Time $23.95)
7. 1776, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster $32)
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Discovering the Forest, by Charlotte Gantz (iUniverse $13.95)
2. Eden in the Pines, by Richard J. Moss (The Pilot $14.95)
3. Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson (Doubleday $14.95)
4. Who Let the Dogs In, by Molly Ivins (Random House $14.95)
5. 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses, by American Heritage (Houghton Mifflin $4.95)
6. 30-Minute Meals 2, by Rachael Ray (National Book $16.95)
7. 32 Third Graders & One Class Bunny, by Phillip Done (Simon & Schuster $19.95)
Children’s Books
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic $29.99)
2. Good Night Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown (HarperCollins $7.99)
3. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Eric Carle (St. Martin’s $7.95)
4. Dragonology Handbook, by Ernest Drake (Candlewick $12.99)
5. Ed Emberley’s Fingerprint Drawing Book, by Ed Emberley (Time $7.99)
6. Little Red Hen, by Golden Books (Random House $4.99)
7. On My Very 1st School Day I Met…, by Norman Stiles (Simon & Schuster $9.95)
The Sandhills Bestseller List is compiled by The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines.