PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending Aug. 18

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover)

2. “Play Dirty” by Sandra Brown, (Simon & Schuster) (F-H)

3. “Force of Nature” by Suzanne Brockmann (Ballantine)

4. “The Quickie” by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown and Company)

5. “The Secret Servant” by Daniel Silva (Putnam)

6. “Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan (Ballantine)

7. “The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel” by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)

8. “Sandworms of Dune” by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (Tor Books)

9. “Spook Country” by Wiliam Gibson (Putnam)

10. “Devil May Cry” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s Press)

NONFICTION/GENERAL

1. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)

2. “Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao” by Wayne W. Dyer (Hay House)

3. “The Dangerous Book for Boys” by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden (Collins)

4. “The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About” by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance Publishing)

5. “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide” by Duane “Dog” Chapman (Hyperion)

6. “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life “ by Tony Dungy (Tyndale)

7. “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10” by Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown and Company)

8. “Guinness Book of World Records 2008” (Guinness World Records)

9. “It’s All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life” by Denise Jackson and Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson)

10. “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. “Almost Dead” by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)

2. “Echo Park” by Michael Connelly (Grand Central Publishing)

3. “Under Orders” by Dick Francis (Berkley)

4. “The Bourne Ultimatum” by Robert Ludlum (Bantam)

5. “Ricochet” by Sandra Brown (Pocket)

6. “The Ruins” by Scott Smith (Vintage)

7. “Crisis” by Robin Cook (Berkley)

8. “Dockside” by Susan Wiggs (Mira)

9. “Touch of Darkness” by Christina Dodd (Signet)

10. “Triptych” by Karin Slaughter (Dell)

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)

2. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)

3. “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)

4. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” by Kim Edwards (Penguin)

5. “The Emperor’s Children” by Claire Messud (Vintage)

6. “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides (Picador)

7. “The Glass Castle: A Memoir” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)

8. “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life” by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell)

9. “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho (Harper)

10. “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)