Best-sellers for week of Aug. 21
Here's this week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. No real surprises here. I'm thinking I might need to pick up "Acheron" or "The Lace Reader" sometime soon. Anyone else looking forward to reading one of these best-sellers?
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
2. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Press)
3. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)
4. "Moscow Rules" by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
5. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
6. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (The Dial Press)
7. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
8. "The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
9. "Tribute" by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
10. "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
11. "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry (Morrow)
12. "Foreign Body" by Robin Cook (Putnam)
13. "Love the One You're With" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Press)
14. "The 19th Wife" by David Ebershoff (Random House)
15. "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson (Doubleday)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)
3. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)
4. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
5. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
6. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)
7. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
8. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind (Harper)
9. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
10. "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It" by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)
11. "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
12. "Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within." by Maria Shriver (Hyperion)
13. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)
14. "YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger" by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz (Collins Living)
15. "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" by Tom Vanderbilt (Knopf)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)
2. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)
3. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
4. "Into The Flame" by Christina Dodd (Signet)
5. "Strangers in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley)
6. "Play Dirty" by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
7. "Cry Wolf" by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
8. "Turbulent Sea" by Christine Feehan (Jove)
9. "Left to Die" by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
10. "The Sanctuary" by Raymond Khoury (Signet)
11. "The Burnt House" by Faye Kellerman (Harper)
12. "The Manning Brides" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
13. "Sweet Spot" by Susan Mallery (HQN)
14. "The Bone Garden" by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine Books)
15. "Beyond Reach" by Karin Slaughter (Dell)
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. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
4. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
5. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
6. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)
7. "Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness" by Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (Hay House)
8. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
9. "Skinny Bitch" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
10. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
11. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)
12. "Run" by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
13. "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)
14. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
15. "Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life" by Tim Russert (Miramax Books)
