Originally published October 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM | Page modified October 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
HARDCOVER FICTION
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
2. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
3. "Heat Lightning" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)
4. "One Fifth Avenue" by Candace Bushnell (Voice)
5. "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)
6. "A Cedar Cove Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira Books)
7. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
8. "The Given Day" by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)
9. "Hot Mahogany" by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)
10. "Tsar" by Ted Bell (Atria)
11. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
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12. "Faefever" by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte)
13. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)
14. "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
15. "The Book of Lies" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)
2. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
3. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)
4. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)
5. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
6. "Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter)
7. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
8. "Pieces of My Heart" by Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman, (HarperEntertainment)
9. "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
10. "Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness" by Suzanne Somers (Crown)
11. "Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Wont Regret" by T.D. Jakes (Atria)
12. "Guinness World Records 2009" by Guinness (Guinnes Publishing)
13. "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou (Random House)
14. "Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds" by Jenny McCarthy (Dutton)
15. "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" by Andrew Bacevich (Metropolitan Books)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Mr. Cavendish, I Presume," by Julia Quinn (Avon)
2. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
3. "Seduce Me at Sunrise" by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
4. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)
5. "The Rogue Hunter' by Lynsay Sands (Avon)
6. "Collateral Damage" by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
7. "Dark of the Moon" by John Sandford (Berkley)
8. "Third Degree" by Greg Iles (Pocket)
9. "The Rustler" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
10. "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
11. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
12. "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
13. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)
14. "Amazing Grace" by Danielle Steel (Dell)
15. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci (Vision)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
3. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
4. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
5. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
6. "Sunset" by Karen Kingsbury (Tyndale House)
7. "Skinny B----" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
8. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
9. "What to Expect When You're Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group)
10. "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down" by Kaylene Johnson (Tyndale House Publishers)
11. "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)
12. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
13. "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life" by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell)
14. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)
15. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay)
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