The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Hardcover Fiction Last Week

1. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn (Crown, $25.00) 1

2. "Wicked Business" by Janet Evanovich (Bantam $28) 2

3. "The Next Best Thing" by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26.99) -

4. "Summerland" by Elin Hilderbrand (Reagan Arthur, $26.99) 4

5. "Criminal" by Karin Slaughter (Delacorte, $27.00) -

6. "Bloodline: A Sigma Force Novel" by James Rollins (William Morrow, 27.99) 3

7. "Calico Joe" by John Grisham (Doubleday, $24.95) 5

8. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin (Bantam, $35.00) 11

9. "Mission to Paris" by Alan Furst (Random House, $27.00) 8

10. "The Age of Miracles" by Karen Thompson Walker (Random House, $26.00) 6

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. "Leadocracy" by Geoff Smart (Greenleaf Book Group, $19.95) -

2. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf, $25.95) 2

3. "The Amateur" by Edward Klein (Regnery, $27.95) 3

4. "An American Son" by Marco Rubio (Sentinel, $26.95) 6

5. "Cowards" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions, $28.00) 1

6. "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard (Holt, $28) 4

7. "The Skinny Rules" by Bob Harper (Ballantine, $26.00) 5

8. "The Great Destroyer" by David Limbaugh (Regnery, $29.95) 10

9. "It Worked for Me" by Colin Powell (Harper, $27.99) 7

10. "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle (William Morrow, $26.99) 17

Week ending July 8, 2012, powered by Nielsen BookScan (c) 2012 The Nielsen Company.

(Editing by Patricia Reaney)

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