Books best-sellers: July 29, 2012

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "The Fallen Angel" by Daniel Silva (Harper)

2. "I, Michael Bennett" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

3. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

4. "Shadow of Night" by Deborah E. Harkness (Viking)

5. "Backfire" by Catherine Coulter (Putnam)

6. "Creole Belle" by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)7. "The Next Best Thing: A Novel" by Jennifer Weiner (Atria Books)

8. "Wicked Business" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

9. "The Sandcastle Girls" by Chris Bohjalian (Doublejay)

10. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)

11. "Close Your Eyes" by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's)

12. "15 Seconds" by Andrew Gross (William Morrow)

13. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham (Doubleday)

14. "Summerland" by Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur)

15. "Bloodline: A Sigma Force Novel" by James Rollins (William Morrow)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf)

2. "A Year Up" by Gerald Chertavian (Viking)

3. "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt)

4. "The Amateur" by Edward Klein (Regnery)

5. "The Mobile Wave" by Michael Saylor (Vanguard)

6. "Eat More of What You Love" by Marlene Koch (Running Press)7. "How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything ... in Business (and in Life)" by Dov Seidman (Wiley)

8. "The Skinny Rules" by Bob Harper with Greg Critser (Ballantine)

9. "Cowards" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

10. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

11. "The Communist" by Paul Kengor (Simon & Schuster)

12. "Out of the Blue" by Victor Cruz (Celebra)

13. "Dream Team" by Jack McCallum (Ballantine)

14. "The Great Destroyer" by David Limbaugh (Regnery)

15. "It Worked for Me" by Colin Powell (Harper)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

The Litigators
By John Grisham

1. "The Litigators" by John Grisham (Dell)

2. "Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)

3. "Lethal" by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)

4. "Split Second" by Catherine Coulter (Jove)

5. "Private Games" by James Patterson (Vision)

6. "Savor the Moment" by Nora Roberts (Jove)7. "Family Affair" by Debbie Macomber (Avon)

8. "The Silent Girl" by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine Books)

9. "Gun Games" by Faye Kellerman (Harper)

10. "Explosive Eighteen" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)

11. "Summer People" by Elin Hilderbrand (St. Martin's)

12. "Midnight Promises" by Sherryl Woods (Harlequin Mira)

13. "Summer Nights" by Susan Mallery (Harlequin HQN)

14. "Afraid to Die" Lisa Jackson (Zebra)

15. "Trace" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James (Vintage)

2. "Fifty Shades Darker" by E.L. James (Vintage)

3. "Fifty Shades Freed" by E.L. James (Vintage)

4. "Bared to You" by Sylvia Day (Berkley)

5. "To Heaven And Back" by Mary C. Neal (WaterBrook Press)

6. "The Litigators" by John Grisham (Bantam)7. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern (Anchor)

8. "Private Games" by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Vision)

9. "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Lawson (Broadway)

10. "A Stolen Life: a Memoir" by Jaycee Lee Dugard (Simon & Schuster)

11. "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles (Penguin)

12. "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah E. Harkness (Penguin)

13. "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)

14. "On the Island" by Tracey Garvis Graves (Plume)15. "Maine" by J. Courtney Sullivan (Vintage)