Originally published Friday, September 5, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Book review
Books | Best-sellers of the week
As reported by Publishers Weekly Hardcover fiction 1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sean Williams 2. Smoke Screen, Sandra Brown 3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer...
Best-sellers as reported by Publishers Weekly
Hardcover fiction
1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sean Williams
2. Smoke Screen, Sandra Brown
3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
5. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction, Eric Van Lustbader
6. Acheron, Sherrilyn Kenyon
7. Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva
8. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
9. The Mercedes Coffin, Faye Kellerman
10. The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
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Hardcover nonfiction
1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
2. The Obama Nation, Jerome R. Corsi
3. sTori Telling, Tori Spelling
4. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
5. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
6. The Case Against Barack Obama, David Freddoso
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
8. The Way of the World, Ron Suskind
9. You: Staying Young, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
10. Fleeced, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Local Scene
Current best-sellers at Secret Garden Bookshop, 2214 N.W. Market St., Seattle, 206-789-5006 (www.secretgardenbooks.com).
Hardcover
1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
2. The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
3. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
5. Owl Moon, Jane Yolen
Paperback
1. Babymouse 9: Monster Mash, Jenny Holm and Matt Holm
2. Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
3. Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
5. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
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