Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004

Hardcover Fiction

1. Night Fall, by Nelson DeMille (Warner $26.95)

2. Skeleton Man, by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins $25.95)

3. Glass Virgin, by Catherine Cookson (Simon & Schuster $25)

4. Godfather Returns, by Mark Winegardner (Random House $26.95)

5. Hour Game, by David Baldacci (Warner $26.95)

6. I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe (Farrar Straus Giroux $28.95)

7. Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve (Little Brown $24.95)

Paperback Fiction

1. Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Books $14)

2. Shepherds Abiding, by Jan Karon (Penguin $13.95)

3. Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler (Ballantine $14.95)

4. Balzac & The Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie (Anchor $10)

5. Blacklist, by Sara Paretsky (Signet $7.99)

6. Blindside, by Catherine Coulter (Jove $7.99)

7. December 6, by Martin Cruz Smith (Pocket Books $7.99)

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Hope and Honor, by Major General Sidney Shachnow (St. Martins $24.95)

2. Pat Conroy Cookbook, by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese $26)

3. Grand Slam, by Mark Frost (Hyperion $30)

4. North Carolina Pottery, by Barbara Perry (University of North Carolina $39.95)

5. How to Talk to a Liberal If You Must, by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum $26.95)

6. Zara’s Tales, by Peter Beard (Alfred A. Knopf $26.95)

7. Bringing Tuscany Home, by Frances Mayes (Broadway Books $29.95)

Paperback Nonfiction

1. North Carolina Pottery, by Barbara Perry (University of North Carolina $24.95)

2. Color, by Betty Edwards (Jeremy P. Tarcher $17.95)

3. East and West Southern Pines, by Sara Lindau and Pamela Blue (Arcadia $19.99)

4. Of Paradise & Power, by Robert Kagan (Vintage $11)

5. American Holiday Cookbook, by Polly Parke (Vantage Press $15.95)

6. 30 Minute Meals, by Rachel Ray (Lake Isle Press $14.95)

7. Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press $13.95)

Children’s Books

1. Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin $18.95)

2. First Noel, by Jan Pienkowski (Candlewick Press $12.99)

3. Wild About Books, by Judy Sierra (Alfred A. Knopf $16.95)

4. How I Became a Pirate, by Melinda Long (Harcourt Children’s Books $16)

5. Klutz Foot Bag Book (Klutz Press $12.95)

6. Storm, by Justine Korman Fontes (Little Simon $6.99)