Hardcover Fiction
1. Miracle, by Danielle Steel (Doubleday $20)
2. Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova (Little Brown $25.95)
3. Cross Bones, by Kathy Reichs (Simon & Schuster $25)
4. High Plains Tango, by Robert Waller (Random House $24.95)
5. Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby (Penguin $24.95)
6. Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin $24.95)
7. Miss Julia’s School of Beauty, by Ann B. Ross (Penguin $24.95)
Paperback Fiction
1. Big House, by George Colt (Simon & Schuster $14)
2. Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead $14)
3. Nights of Rain & Stars, by Maeve Binchy (New American Library $9.99)
4. The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster $16)
5. Peaches & Cream, by Phyllis Lambert (BookSurge $14.95)
6. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen (Time $12.95)
7. Trace, by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley $7.99)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. 1776, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster $32)
2. Pinehurst: Golf, History, and the Good Life, by Audrey Moriarty (Sports Media Group $26.95)
3. Secret Man, by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster $23)
4. Empire of the Stars, by Arthur Miller (Houghton Mifflin $26)
5. Hope & Honor, by Sidney Shachnow (St. Martin’s $24.95)
6. Hugh Morton’s North Carolina, by Hugh Morton (University of NC Press $35)
7. Life’s Journey According to Mr. Rogers, by Fred Rogers (Time $16.95)
Paperback Nonfiction
1. Discovering the Forest, by Charlotte Gantz (iUniverse $13.95)
2. Blood Done Sign My Name, by Timothy Tyson (Random House $14)
3. Devil in the White City, by Eric Larson (Random House $14.95)
4. Birds of the Carolinas, by Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications $14.95)
5. Dress Your Family in Corduroy, by David Sedaris (Time $14.95)
6. Eden in the Pines, by Richard Moss (The Pilot $14.95)
7. Training Wheels for Nurses, by Barbara Arnoldussen (Simon & Schuster $12)
Children’s Books
1. All Aboard Airplanes, by Frank Evans (Penguin $3.99)
2. Detective LaRue, by Mark Teague (Scholastic $15.95)
3. Goodnight Mister Tom, by Michelle Magorian (HarperCollins $6.99)
4. Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton (Penguin $6.99)
5. Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares (Delacorte $8.95)
6. 1 Monkey Too Many, by Jackie Koller (Harcourt Brace $6)
7. 41 Uses for a Grandma, by Harriet Ziefert (Chronicle $12.95)
The Sandhills Bestseller list is compiled by The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines.