Best-sellers for week of Dec. 18
Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)
2. "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
3. "Cross Country" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
4. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
5. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
6. "Just After Sunset: Stories" by Stephen King (Scribner)
7. "Arctic Drift" by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam)
8. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb (Harper)
9. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
10. "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
11. "The Gate House" by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)
12. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
13. "Your Heart Belongs to Me" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
14. "The Charlemagne Pursuit" by Steve Berry (Ballantine Books)
15. "The Private Patient" by P. D. James (Knopf)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)
3. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
4. "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham (Random House)
5. "The Purpose Of Christmas" by Rick Warren (Howard Books)
6. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)
7. "Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets" by Jon and Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson (Zondervan)
8. "Too Fat To Fish" by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau)
9. "Guinness: World Records 2009" by Guinness World Records (Guinness)
10. "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients" by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
11. "No Limits: The Will to Succeed" by Michael Phelps and Alan Abrahamson (Free Press)
12. "Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America" by Mike Huckabee (Sentinel HC)
13. "Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid" by Denis Leary (Viking Adult)
14. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
15. "The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America" by William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb (Thomas Nelson)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "The Appeal" by John Grisham (Dell)
2. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan (Harper)
3. "The Pagan Stone" by Nora Roberts (Jove)
4. "T is for Trespass" by Sue Grafton (Berkley)
5. "The 6th Target" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Vision)
6. "A Prisoner of Birth" by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin's)
7. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
8. "Dead After Dark" by Sherrilyn Kenyon, J.R. Ward, Susan Squires and Dianna Love (St. Martin's)
9. "The Darkest Evening of the Year" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
10. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)
11. "The Venetian Betrayal" by Steve Berry (Ballantine)
12. "Duma Key" by Stephen King (Pocket)
13. "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
14. "The Manning Grooms" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
15. "Love by Design" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)
3. "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)
4. "Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
5. "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan (Harper)
6. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
7. "Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
8. "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
9. "The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009" by World Almanac Books, edited by C. Alan Joyce (World Almanac)
10. "Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book" by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter)
11. "Halo: The Cole Protocol" by Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
12. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick (B&H)
13. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
14. "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip...with Recipes!" by Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein (Morrow)
15. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (NAL)
