Best-sellers for week of Oct. 16
October 16, 2008 - 10:21 am
Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly.
HARDCOVER FICTION1. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
2. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
3. "A Most Wanted Man" by John Le Carre (Scribner)
4. "The Pirate King" by R.A. Salvatore, (Wizards Of The Coast)
5. "Heat Lightning" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)
6. "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone)
7. "One Fifth Avenue" by Candace Bushnell (Voice)
8. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
9. "A Cedar Cove Christmas" by Debbie Macomber (Mira Books)
10. "The Given Day" by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)
11. "Hot Mahogany" by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)
12. "Tsar" by Ted Bell (Atria)
13. "Grace" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster)
14. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
15. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)
NONFICTION/GENERAL1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" by Alice Schroeder (Bantam)
3. "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" by Vicki Myron, Brett Witter (Grand Central)
4. "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway)
5. "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
6. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
7. "Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter)
8. "Letter to My Daughter" by Maya Angelou (Random House)
9. "Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man" by Dalton Fury (St. Martin s Press)
10. "What in the World Is Going On?" by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson)
11. "Who: The A Method for Hiring" by Geoff Smart, Randy Street (Ballantine)
12. "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
13. "Ted, White and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" by Ted Nugent (Regnery)
14. "Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness" by Suzanne Somers (Crown)
15. "Guinness World Records 2009" by Guinness (Guinness Publishing)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS1. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Vision)
2. "Dark of the Moon" by John Sandford (Berkley)
3. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
4. "First Impressions" by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
5. "Mercury's War" by Lora Leigh (Berkley)
6. "Up in Smoke" by Katie MacAlister (Signet)
7. "Mr. Cavendish, I Presume," by Julia Quinn (Avon)
8. "Seduce Me at Sunrise" by Lisa Kleypas (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
9. "Collateral Damage" by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
10. "Amazing Grace" by Danielle Steel (Dell)
11. "Third Degree" by Greg Iles (Pocket)
12. "The Rogue Hunter' by Lynsay Sands (Avon)
13. "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley)
14. "The Rustler" by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
15. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
TRADE PAPERBACKS1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
3. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
4. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
5. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (NAL)
6. "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (B&H)
7. "Skinny Bitch" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
8. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
9. "What to Expect When You're Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel (Workman Publishing Group)
10. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
11. "The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide" by J.R. Ward (NAL Trade)
12. "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)
13. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)
14. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
15. "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down" by Kaylene Johnson (Tyndale House Publishers)