Summertime is always touted as a great time for reading. Whether it’s on the beach, on the porch or relaxing with a good book late at night, here is the New York Times list of best selling books.

Top Ten Non-Fiction

1. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.

2. QUIET STRENGTH, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. (Tyndale, $26.99.) A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl (he did it this year, with the Indianapolis Colts).

3. THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Tina Brown. (Doubleday, $27.50.) The Princess of Wales’s romance with the media.

4. HAPPY ENDINGS, by Jim Norton. (Simon Spotlight, $23.95.) Raunchy personal essays from the radio personality and stand-up comic.

5. A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.

6. THE ASSAULT ON REASON, by Al Gore. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.

7. GOD IS NOT GREAT, by Christopher Hitchens. (Twelve, $24.99.) Religion as a malignant force in the world. First Chapter

8. EINSTEIN, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) A biography based on newly released personal letters.

9. OUTRAGE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (HC/HarperCollins, $26.95.) An attack on illegal immigration, United Nations profiteers, lazy congressmen and high drug prices.

10. THE WORLD WITHOUT US, by Alan Weisman. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, $24.95.) Drawing on science, art, religion and more, Weisman imagines what Earth would be like if humans disappeared.

Top Ten Fiction

1. THE QUICKIE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A police officer’s attempt to get back at her husband, whom she suspects of cheating on her, goes dangerously awry.

2. HIGH NOON, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $26.95.) A hostage negotiator must face down her unknown stalker.

3. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

4. LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect when her ex-husband disappears.

5. BUNGALOW 2, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $27.) A writer must deal with the effects of Hollywood success on her family life.

6. THE JUDAS STRAIN, by James Rollins. (Morrow, $25.95.) Sigma Force operatives trained in science search for the secret behind the re-emergence of an ancient plague.

7. DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) Lucky Santangelo’s preparations for the opening of a Las Vegas hotel complex are complicated by the reappearance of an old family foe.

8. THE BOURNE BETRAYAL, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Warner, $25.99.) Continuing the story of Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne, who tangles with a group of diabolical Islamic terrorists.

9. DOUBLE TAKE, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, $25.95.) Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock - F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife - join with a San Francisco colleague to solve a murder and find a missing woman.

10. PEONY IN LOVE, by Lisa See. (Random House, $23.95.) Love, death and ghosts in 17th-century China.

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