Best-sellers for week of Aug. 28
Here's this week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. "Star Wars" unleashes the force to take the No. 1 spot for fiction. "Luke ... I am your father ..."
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" by Sean Williams (Del Rey)
2. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
3. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
4. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (The Dial Press)
5. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)
6. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Press)
7. "Moscow Rules" by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
8. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
9. "The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
10. "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry (William Morrow)
11. "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
12. "Foreign Body" by Robin Cook (Putnam)
13. "Being Elizabeth" by Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martin's)
14. "Rough Justice" by Jack Higgins (Putnam)
15. "Love the One You're With" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Press)
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. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
6. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)
7. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
8. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind (Harper)
9. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
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. "Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within." by Maria Shriver (Hyperion
12. "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
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. "Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity" by Garrett B. Gunderson, Stephen Palmer (Greenleaf Book Group)
15. "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria (W.W. Norton)
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. "The Book of Scandal" by Julia London (Pocket)
5. "Play Dirty" by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
6. "Strangers in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley)
7. "Cry Wolf" by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
8. "Left to Die" by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
9. "Into The Flame" by Christina Dodd (Signet)
10. "The Burnt House" by Faye Kellerman (Harper)
11. "The Sanctuary" by Raymond Khoury (Signet)
12. "The Manning Brides" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
13. "Turbulent Sea" by Christine Feehan (Jove)
14. "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence" by Gavin De Becker (Dell)
15. "Shadowfires" by Dean Koontz (Berkley)
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 Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
4. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
5. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
6. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
7. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
8. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
9. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)
10. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
11. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)
12. "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library)
13. "Skinny Bitch" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
14. "Bridge of Sighs" Richard Russo (Vintage)
15. "Eat This Not That!" by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale)
